Unit 3 Vocabulary
APUSH 2012-13
Chapter 16
King Cotton
planter aristocracy
free blacks
Douglass, Frederick
mulatto
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Gabriel Prosser plot (1800)
Denmark Vesey plot (1822)
Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831)
Amer. Colonization Society (1817)
Liberia
Second Great Awakening
Weld, Theodore Dwight
Tappan, Arthur and Lewis
radical abolitionism
Garrison, William Lloyd
The Liberator (1831)
Amer. Anti-Slavery Society (1833)
Walker, David
Truth, Sojourner
Liberty Party (1840)
positive good
peculiar institution
Gag Resolution (1836)
Lovejoy, Elijah
paternalism
Chapter 17
O’Sullivan, John
“Hard Cider” Campaign (1840)
Whig Party
Harrison, William Henry
Tyler, John
“President without a party”
“His Accidency”
Caroline Affair (1837)
Aroostook War (1838)
Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
Mesabi iron ore
Lone Star Republic
“Remember the Alamo!”
Polk, James
“Conscience Whigs”
Oregon Country
Willamette Valley
Oregon Trail
“dark horse”
Election of 1844
Manifest Destiny
Liberty Party
Walker Tariff (1846)
54’40 or Fight!
Slidell, John
Taylor, General Zachary
“spot resolutions”
Mexican War (1846-48)
Santa Anna, General Lopez de
Santa Fe Trail
Scott, General Winfield
Trist, Nicholas
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Mexican Cession (1848)
Californios
slavocracy
Wilmot Proviso (1846)
Chapter 18
“fire-eaters”
Cass, Lewis
popular sovereignty
Taylor, Zachary
Free Soil Party (1848)
“Conscience Whigs”
California Gold Rush
Underground Railroad
Tubman, Harriet
Nashville Convention (1850)
Calhoun, John C.
Webster, Daniel
Seward, William
Fillmore, Millard
Compromise of 1850
“higher law”
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
Henry Clay
“personal liberty laws”
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850)
“filibustering expeditions”
Ostend Manifesto (1854)
Treaty of Wanghia (1844)
extraterritoriality
Perry, Comm. Matthew
Gadsden Purchase (1853)
Douglas, Stephen
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Chapter 19
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Impending Crisis of the South (1857)
Helper, Hinton
New England Emigrant Aid Co.
“Beecher’s Bibles”
“border ruffians”
Bleeding Kansas (1854-60)
Brown, John
Pottawatomie Massacre (1856)
Lecompton Constitution (1857)
Buchanan, James
Brooks-Sumner Attack (1856)
Republican Party (1854)
Fremont, John C.
Know-Nothing Party
Dred Scott decision (1857)
Taney, Roger B.
Panic of 1857
Tariff of 1857
Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858)
Freeport Doctrine
Harper’s Ferry (1859)
Constitutional Union Party (1860)
Lincoln, Abraham
Election of 1860
secession
South Carolina Convention (1860)
Davis, Jefferson
Crittenden Compromise (1860)
Chapter 20
Fort Sumter (1861)
Richmond, VA
Montgomery, AL
Border States
Five Civilized Tribes
Billy Yank/Johnny Reb
Lee, Robert E.
Jackson, Thomas “Stonewall”
Chapter 21
“Ninety Day War”
(First) Battle of Bull Run (1861)
McClellan, George
Army of the Potomac
Anaconda Plan
Monitor v. Merrimack (1862)
(Second) Battle of Bull Run (1862)
Battle of Antietam (1862)
Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
Butternuts
Chapter 22
Emancipation Day celebrations
“Exodusters”
A.M.E. Church
Freedmen’s Bureau (1865)
Johnson, Andrew
Presidential Reconstruction
10-percent Plan (1863)
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
pocket veto
13th Amendment (1865)
Black Codes
sharecroppers
King Cotton Diplomacy
“King Wheat & King Corn”
Trent Affair (1861)
CSS Alabama (1862)
Archduke Maximilian
Seward, William
habeas corpus
conscription
New York City Draft Riots (1863)
Morrill Tariff Act (1861)
National Banking Act (1863)
Homestead Act (1862)
Blackwell, Dr. Elizabeth
U.S. Sanitary Commission
Barton, Clara
54th Massachusetts Regiment
contraband
Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
Pickett’s Charge (1863)
Gettysburg Address (1863)
Grant, Ulysses S.
Battle of Vicksburg (1863)
Sherman, William T.
March to the Sea (1864)
total war
Election of 1864
Peace Democrats/Copperheads
War Democrats
Union Party (1864)
Hampton Roads Conference (1865)
Appomattox Courthouse (1865)
Booth, John Wilkes
“Lost Cause”
Congressional (aka, Radical)
Reconstruction
Civil Rights Act of 1866
14th Amendment (1868)
Sumner, Charles
Stevens, Thaddeus
Reconstruction Act (1867)
15th Amendment (1870)
Ex parte Milligan (1866)
Redeemers
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Anthony, Susan B.
Black Reconstruction
scalawags
carpetbaggers
New South
Ku Klux Klan
Force Acts (1870-71)
literacy tests
Tenure of Office Act (1867)
Johnson’s impeachment (1868)
“Seward’s Folly” (1867)
The following terms are omitted by the textbook, but are highly relevant. We’ll cover them in class, and they may
be included in Vocab. and MC quizzes. They are listed by the chapter with which they correlate.
Ch. 16:
Ch. 18:
Ch. 19:
Ch. 20:
Ch. 21:
Ch. 22:
gradual emancipation, compensated emancipation, mudsill theory, and George Fitzhugh
Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), Anthony Burns
secessionitis
Morrill Land Grant Act (1862), Legal Tender Act (1862), Pacific Railway Act (1863), Richmond
Food Riot (1862)
Army of Northern Virginia, Confiscation Acts (1861-62), Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address
White Leagues, grandfather clause, poll tax, Slaughterhouse cases (1873), U.S. v. Cruikshank
(1875), Civil Rights Act of 1875, Compromise of 1877