Chapter 16-20 Key Terms (Most but Definitely not ALL!)
Liberty Party
Know-Nothing (American) Party
Elizabeth Blackwell
Franklin Pierce
Texas secedes from Mexico
Kansas-Nebraska Act
John Tyler (death of Harrison)
Republican Party
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Ostend Manifesto
James Polk
“Bleeding Kansas”
Texas Enters Union
Pottawatomie Massacre
Slidell Mission
Brooks-Sumner Incident
Oregon Treaty
James Buchanan
Wilmot Proviso
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Manifest Destiny
Lecompton Constitution
Mexican-American War
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
“Spot Resolutions”
Freeport Doctrine
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Harper’s Ferry
Zachary Taylor
Abraham Lincoln
Gold in California
Fort Sumter
Free-Soil Party
The Confederate States of America (The
Confederacy)
Millard Fillmore
Trent Affair
Compromise of 1850
King Cotton
Fugitive Slave Act
Cotton Gin
California Enters Union
Plantation System
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
"King Cotton"
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Antebellum South
Chapter 16-20 Key Terms (Most but Definitely not ALL!)
"slavocracy"
General Antonio López de Santa Anna
yeoman
Lone Star Republic
Southern paternalism
Oregon Trail
Mississippi Married Women's Property Act
of 1839
Donner Party
"Peculiar Institution"
"Sambo" image
manumission
Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner
Hinton Rowan Helper
The Impending Crisis
American Colonization Society
William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator
American Anti-Slavery Society
Frederick Douglass
"54° 40' or Fight!"
"Mr. Polk's War"
General Winfield Scott
"Old Fuss & Feathers"
Slidell Mission
John C. Frémont Bear Flag Republic
popular sovereignty
Forty-Niners
omnibus bill
Gadsden Purchase (1853)
Fugitive Slave Act (1854)
Ostend Manifesto (1854)
Harriet Tubman
Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Land, & Free
Men
Underground Railroad
Roger B. Taney
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Daniel Webster
James G. Birney
Henry Clay
"Free Soil" movement
Stephen Douglas
John L. O'Sullivan
Republican Party
Manifest Destiny
“A house divided against itself cannot
stand.”
"Empire of Liberty"
Sam Houston
Stephen Austin
empresario
John Brown
Crittenden Plan
Confederate States of America
Chapter 16-20 Key Terms (Most but Definitely not ALL!)
Jefferson Davis
Ft. Sumter, SC
Morrill Tariff Act (1861)
Homestead Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
National Bank Acts (1863 & 1864)
greenbacks
Conscription Act (1863)
“A rich man's war, but a poor man's fight!”
New York Draft Riots (1863)
writ of habeas corpus
Emancipation Proclamation
Clara Barton
Mathew Brady