HCC 1301 Unit III Study Guide
* Antebellum America & Manifest Destiny (1830-1850)
utopianism
transcendentalism
the significance of *Manifest Destiny
the expansionist foreign policy of the Polk administration
Sam Houston’s views on Texas and its connection to the U.S.
the purpose, findings, and recommendations of Teran’s Commission
the settlement of Texas by Anglos, their cultural and political conflicts with Mexicans, and the Texas Revolution
the immigration policies of Mexico
Sam Houston’s conduct of the Texas Revolution
the annexation of Texas
the distinct characteristics of the North and South that distinguished them as individual sections of the country
the appearance of distinct socio-economic classes and changing gender roles, and the democratic family
characteristics of the 19th century American middle class
the Second Great Awakening
the major reform movements of the mid-19th century: temperance, abolition, and women’s rights
Young Hickory
popular sovereignty
the Gadsden Purchase
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
empresarios
Coahuila y Texas `
the law of April 6
industrial capitalism
interchangeable parts
the Oneida community
mass production
the forty-niners
the fugitive slave law
the 49th parallel
the Tejanos
the runaway scrape
Zacatecas
the Republic of Texas
cult of domesticity
the century of the child
the underground railroad
the Goliad massacre
Juan Sequin
James Knox Polk
John O’Sullivan
Stephen F. Austin
William Lloyd Garrison
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Sam Houston
Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott
Moses Austin
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Brigham Young
the Liberator
the Advocate of Moral Reform
“a decent laboring class”
the Gold Rush
the Compromise of 1850
the Mexican War
the Constitution of 1824
the Comanches and Apaches
battle of San Jacinto
the capture of Mexico City
the Compromise of 1850
division of labor
the American Temperance Society
the American Colonization Society
David Crockett
Nicholas Trist
John Tyler
John Slidell
Frederick Douglass
Winfield Scott
“Go west young man, go west”
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
David Wilmot
Manuel de Mier y Teran
Charles Grandison Finney
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
John Humphrey Noyes
the Wilmot Proviso
the Oregon Trail
the Bear Flag Revolt
the rancheros
the Alamo
bloomers
assembly line
separate spheres
the Mormons
Harriet Tubman
the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments
“Fifty-four Forty or Fight”
“Cotton is King.”
“The department of Texas is contiguous to the most avid nation in the world. . . . . The North Americans have conquered whatever
territory adjoins them.”
America in Crisis: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
sectionalism
nativism
demonize
watershed
popular sovereignty
secession
total war
the views Americans in the North and the South developed of each other in the 1850’s
the differences between the compact and the unionist views of the U.S. and their relevance to the Civil War
the specific goals of the third parties arising in the North in the 1850’s
events in Kansas that became a rehearsal for the Civil War
the momentum of events in the 1850’s that moved the country to war
the significance of the presidential elections of 1860 and 1876
the sequence and political process of Southern secession
the significance of the Border States
reasons why the Civil War was the greatest watershed in U.S. history
Lincoln’s view of secession
the deciding factors, ironies, and characteristics of the war
the ending of the war
the Lincoln assassination
the power struggles that occurred during Reconstruction and the elements of Radical Reconstruction
the effects of the war on the South
the significance of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
the legacy of Reconstruction
the Slave Power
the Kansas-Nebraska Act
the Fire-eaters
the raid on Harper’s Ferry
the *Free Soil Party
the Homestead Act
the American Party
the mini-ball
the Know-Nothings
the Pacific Union RR Act
the Republican Party
greenbacks
the Redeemers
the Radical Republicans
the Ku Klux Klan
sharecropping
the 1st Battle of Bull Run the Wilmot Proviso
de jure segregation
the Battle of Gettysburg
River Queen Doctrine
the Compromise of 1877
the North African Barbary States
the Confederate States of America
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stephen A. Douglas
Charles Sumner
Andrew Butler
Edwin M. Stanton
the Anaconda Plan
the Emancipation Proclamation
the Copperheads
the Morrill College Land Grant Act
Ford Theater
the Freedmen’s Bureau
the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
the siege of Vicksburg
the Battle of New Orleans
the siege of Atlanta
the Compromise of 1850
Sherman’s March to the Sea
First and Second Inaugural Addresses
John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Preston Brooks
David P. Conyngham
Ulysses. S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
John Wilkes Booth
Mary Surratt
George Fitzhugh
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“Beecher Bibles”
the “sack of Lawrence”
“Bleeding Kansas”
Dred Scott v. Samford
“forty acres and a mule”
“the harlot slavery as his mistress”
“War is hell.”
Andrew Johnson
William Tecumseh Sherman
Rutherford B. Hayes
William Seward
the “Pottawatomie massacre”
“And ain’t I a woman?”
“a house divided against itself cannot stand”
“not a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight”
sharecropping
the NYC draft riots
the Redeemers
popular sovereignty
the Black Codes
Jim Crow laws
Appomattox
Antietam
Fort Sumter
the Solid South
the Fugitive Slave Law
*free labor
*conscription
“fight to the last,”
“a peaceful appeal to the ballot box”
“bind up the nation’s wounds”
“Our campaign all through Central Georgia was one delightful picnic.” “butcher”
“no regard for life.”
“as much aptness and proficiency . . . as is usually shown by white troops.”
“Let us say to every negro who wishes to go into the ranks on condition of being free—Go and fight; you are free.”
“We care not for the color of the arm that strikes the invader of our homes.”
“Go home now, and if you make as good citizens as
you have soldiers, you will do well, and I shall always be proud of you.”
“In your hands, my dissatisfied country-men, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.”