APUSH

By cassiemp99

  • 2nd Great awakening

    A series of religious revivals. Started in 1801 and was based on Methodism and Baptism. It really stressed the important philosophy of salvation through deeds and the tolerance for all. Attracted mostly women, Blacks, and Native Americans

  • Missouri Compromise

    At this time Missouri wanted to join the Union but as a slave state, and this would unbalance the union making more slave states than free states. This compromise made it so Maine joined as a free state and Missouri joined as a slave state. A line was then created across the southern border of Missouri and all states north of that line must be free states.

  • Gag Resolution

    This was a strict rule that the pro slavery southern congressmen passed. It made it so it was prohibited to discuss slavery in the House of Representatives.

  • Election of 1844

    The candidates were
    Henry Clay-Whigs
    James K Polk-Democrat
    Polk wanted expansion, Oregon and Texas, but Clay had spoken out against annexation. Polk won the election

  • Annexation of Texas

    Texas was made a state in 1845. Both houses of Congress supported the annexation and Tyler signed the bill before leaving office.

  • Mexican American War

    This was a conflict that the US faced after annexing Texas. Mexico considered Texas as its own and that caused strife. US won and gained all land from Texas to California

  • Wilmot Proviso

    This was a bill proposed after the Mexican War. It stated that slavery or any involuntary servitude would ever exist on any land gained from Mexico. It was never passed, but it did change the debate about slavery.

  • Compromise of 1850

    This compromise stalled the Civil War. It instated the Fugitive Slave Act, banned the slave trade in DC, and it admitted California as a free state. This also instated popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    This came from the Compromise of 1850. It forces citizens to catch runaway slaves, and the slaves could not testify on their own behalf because they were considered "property".

  • Creation of Republican party

    Began in the early 1850's, its main dedication was to keeping slavery out of the territories. But along with this they also championed a wider range of issues, like the further development of national roads, more liberal land in the West, and increased protective tariffs. People in defiance of the Slave Powers

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    A compromise law created in 1854 that suspended the Missouri Compromise. It made it so citizens of Kansas and Nebraska determined if they would be a slave state or not.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    These were violent events that involved abolitionists and pro-slavery. It happened in Kansas territory, where new pro-slavery and anti-slavery constitutions were competed.

  • Dred Scott v. Sanford

    A slave from Missouri sued for his freedom. He claimed that he lived in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made him free. The US supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was "property" and not a citizen

  • Lincoln Douglas Debates

    A series of seven debates, where the two debated important issues like popular sovereignty, Lecompton Constitution, and the Dred Scott decision. Douglas won but Lincolns position in these debates helped him win the 1860 election.

  • Election of 1860

    Candidates
    Stephen Douglas-Northern Democrat
    John C. Breckinridge-Southern Democrat
    Abraham Lincoln-Republican
    John Bell-Constitutional Union
    Lincoln Wins!!!!! :)