1.
6 Interpretations of Texas Revolution: - After Mexico breaks from Spain, Mexico becomes just like Spain - Cultures revolt against Mexican Government
- Texas Revolution was not just fought by white people;e - Tejanos
- Davy Crockett surrendered and didn't fight til death - he is exectued by a sword and gives Texans the idea that Santa Ana is a butcher
2.
13th amendment: frees slaves
isn't ratified until after the war
3.
14th amendment: gives citizenship to African Americans
equal access to public accommodation and facilities
Rosa parks case was decided on 14th amendment
Substantive Due Process Clause - not just dealing with criminals
4.
15th amendment: African Americans can vote
95 years active
literacy tests and poll tests
5.
1865: confederate draft of 13 and 14 year old kids
Lee surrenders to Grant
6.
Anthony Burns: Slave from Virginia
violated personal liberty laws of Massachusetts - runs off to Boston
Notes?
7.
Battle of Bull Run: Virginia
Battle of Manassas
Basic beginning of Civil War - first major battle
Signaled that the war was not going to be easy for the Union, that was was a spectators sport and that the union had more resources but southerners are not going to just give up
People wanted to watch from a hill while have a picnic
Confederate Win
Shows Union that Confederate were good fighters
Some think if they continued to Washington they could have won Civil War - FALSE
8.
Battle of Fort Sumter: South Carolina
First battle of Civil War
9.
Battle of Gettysburg: First incident where the Confederates attacked in Union territory - bloodiest battle
Sam Houston predicted that most of the Civil War would take place in southern territory
Robert E. Lee - had the idea to take the fight to Pennsylvania
Union Win
10.
California: admitted as free state
11.
Civil War: Ends with Hays Compromise
12.
Compromise of 1850: Popular Sovereignty - Missouri line doesnt matter anymore - states can vote on issue of slavery
Slave trade abolished in District of Columbia but not slavery all together
Provisions for California
Provisions for Texas
13.
Compromise of 1877: Hays compromise
reconstruction ends
federal troops removed from south
14.
Confederate: 11 states
South Carolina first
North Carolina last
Texas 7th
15.
Congressional Reconstruction: 1867-1873
Radical Republicans with HARSH rules
Ensured blacks could vote, had military occupation in south
Republicans eventually gave up when they realized the south wasn't really going to get on their level
16.
Daniel Huff: First casualty of Civil War
Shot himself with a canon
17.
David Wilmot: Northern Democrat
wants to prove his abolitionism
introduces the Wilmot Proviso- stated that no territory gained from Mexico can have slavery except for Texas - never passes - means that slavery is attached to every issue and tension is much higher
Was a way to keep slavery where it was
18.
Dred Scott: Owned by Peter Blow family
sold to doctor that traveled in the north
doctor dies and he is given to doctors sister - they dont like each other
1847 - taken to federal courts - is freed because he traveled to free state
19.
Edward Ruffin: Claimed to shoot the first shot in Civil war but wasnt. Killed himself after the war - too southern.
20.
Emancipation Proclamation: issued by Lincoln in 1864
no slaves are freed when it was passed
only applied to union territory control that had already freed slaves
21.
Fugitive Salve Act of 1850: Sets up series of courts
Bounty hunters can bring in slaves - hunter gets a bounty, judge gets a bounty and the slave cannot have any witnesses
22.
Gadsden Purchase: US buys Texas and all land west of Texas for 15 million from Mexico
23.
Henry Clay: ultimate deal maker
Didn't care about Texas Anexation
1850 Omnibus bill - wanted to run it down everyone's throat
no one liked it, not even John C. Calhoon
24.
James K Polk: From Tennessee
Pushed for Texas annexation
Runs against Clay and Tyler and wins in 1844
25.
Jefferson Davis: Escapes to north
Treason in the south
rumor that he put on woman's clothes to escape
26.
John Brown: Murdered a whole family who agreed with slavery, women and children included.
27.
John Brown's Raid: Harper's Fairy Virginia - Munitions dump
makes spears and get ammo and give to slaves
Marines are sent to settle - Robert E. Lee
Tries to negotiate with Brown - he refuses - Lee engages him
28.
John Tyler: Changes from a Democrat to Wigg
First Vice President to ascend to presidency - William Henry Harrison dies and Tyler becomes president
fills the house with wiggs - wiggs become powerful
He vetos a bill that pisses off his own party - the wiggs
Comes up with idea of Texas annexation and rides it until election of 1844
Eventually kicked out of Whig party
Really wanted to annex TX to the US
29.
Juneteenth: Texas slaves freed
30.
Kansas Nebraska Act: 1854
Bleeding Kansas -- role of violence in the issue of slavery drastically increases
violence increases over slavery
both sides are willing to use violence on issue of slavery
Kansas becomes free state at end and no one knows about Nebraska
31.
Know Nothing Party: upper midwest
rascists agaisnt slavery
32.
Mary Serot: Charged with conspiracy
knew about booth killing Lincoln
first woman to be executed
33.
Military Reconstruction: South is broken up into districts, then they give up as well
In the end, only 4 states in the south have the military occupying them
34.
Presidential Reconstruction: Johnson is indited
within one vote of impeachment
Radical Republic imposes harsh policies on southerners
President Johnson's plan
Moderate attempt - disenfranchised all former officers of the Confederate army and those who owned $20,000+ in land
Goal was to shift power from the planter class to the small farmers in the south, and consequently help reintegrate them
35.
Roger Taney: Southern Chief Justice
Two parts on Dred Scott case
- Because Dred Scott was a slave - he was not a citizen and didn't have any standing in federal court
- Southerners have the right to take their "property" anywhere they like
36.
Sam Houston: In 1836 election there were less than 100 votes for someone else
out of 4000 less than a 100 voted against annexation of Texas
1838 - Maribu Lamar takes over as Governor of Texas
Against suceeding- held a sucession convention
37.
Sherman: sent to the sea to further demoralize the south - burns many town and barns
approaches Savannah - they surrender the city and get him drunk and he spares the city
38.
Siege of Vicksburg: Takes places in Mississippi at a port on the river
Union took port of New Orleans in 1862
Vicksburg gives the impression to southerners that the country has been split in half.
importance of products (beef) from east to west important for south to survive
39.
Stephen Douglass: Creator of the Compromise of 1850
Takes all legislatures - 8 issues and puts them into 5 separate bills - compromise of 1850
Lots of legislative skill
40.
Surrender at Appomattox: Appomattox Courthouse
Lee surrenders to Grant and the war is officially over
41.
Texas: admitted into Union by congressional joint treaty signed by Tyler or Polk??f
Strongly supports slavery and makes in imbalance in the Union
Lamar left lots of debt, US pays off Texas debt
Allowed to keep its pubic lands - oil is found
Admitted at slave state
42.
Texas Revolution: Santa Ana is captured - everyone wants to kill him.
Same Houston says no
Some believe that Santa Ana showed Houston he was a Free Mason
Take Santa Ana to Washington to sign a treaty
43.
Texas Succession: When Lincoln is elected, South Carolina and other states react and succeed from the Union.
Texas doesn't like the idea of succession
they hold a succession convention and fly a flag called the Bonnie Blue
44.
Ulysses Grant: Drunk
Very corrupt administrator
still good leader
45.
Uncle Tom's Cabin: 1852
Harriet Beacher Stowe
Direct condemnation of fugitive slave act
Book is banned in Alabama and other southern states
Causes abolition to grow into an official movement
Starts Republican party
46.
William Henry Harrison: Arrogant
read a speech at his 1840 inauguration for 2.5 hours and caught pneumonia from it and dies soon after - Tyler becomes president
