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APUSH Chapter 16, 17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Semiliterate preacher who led a slave revolt in 1831. | Nat Turner |
| A freed black woman who fought for black emancipation and women's rights. | Sojourner Truth |
| An escaped black, who was a great speaker and fought for the Black cause despite being beaten and harassed. Autobiography: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Increasingly looked to politics to solve the slavery problem. | Frederick Douglass |
| A movement to end slavery. | Abolitionism |
| Anti-slavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison. | The Liberator |
| Fiction that played on readers' emotions to swell up the abolitionist movement. | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Founded in 1833, rallied to Garrison's standards. | American Anti-Slavery Society |
| Author of "The Liberator"; in sense, firing one of the first shots of the Civil War. | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Led a slave rebellion in Charleston in 1822. | Denmark Vesey |
| A black abolitionist, wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829 and advocated a bloody end to white supremacy. | David Walker |
| Inflamed against slavery. Preached against slavery and wrote a pamphlet, "American Slavery As It Is." | Theodore Dwight Weld |
| Brothers who were founders of anti-slavery abolitionist groups. Donated money to underground railroad. | Arthur and Lewis Tappan |
| Virginian who was more of a Democrat than a Whig, 10th President of the United States. | John Tyler |
| Sent by Polk as an envoy to Mexico City to make an offer to purchase California for $25 million. He was coldly turned away. | John Slidell |
| "Old Fuss and Feathers." Advocate of the "anaconda plan." | Winfield Scott |
| Led 4,000 men to march fromt the Nueces River to the Rio Grande. "Old Rough and Ready." | Zachary Taylor |
| Sent to negotiate an armistice with Mexico, at cost of $10,000. Then negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. | Nicholas P. Trist |
| Election was seen as a "mandate for the Manifest Destiny." Called "Young Hickory," spponsored by former President Andrew Jackson. | James K. Polk |
| Proposed the Wilmot Proviso, suggesting the Mexican cession lands be closed to slavery. Failed in Senate. | David Wilmot |
| Took California and proclaimed the "Bear Flag Republic." | John C. Fremont |
| Mexican general responsible for the fall of the Texas Revolutions at the Alamo. | Santa Anna |
| Gave Britain their desired Halifax-Quebec route for a road while America got a bit more land north of Maine. | Webster-Ashburton Treaty |
| California movement against Mexican authorities | Bear Flag Revolt |
| Gave America all Mexican territory from TX to CA that was north of the Rio Grande. US hd to pay $15 million to Mexico. $3.5 million in debts from Mexico to the US were absolved as well. | Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo |
| Second anti-Jackson party. In favor of national development. Split into two parties later. | Whigs |
| Name for pre-civil war South. | Cotton Kingdom |
| Became an abolitionist party. By 1848 many members left to join the Free-Soil Party. | Liberty party |
| Founded in 1817 for the purpose of transporting Blacks back to Africa. | American Colonization Society |
| Reverend of Alton, Illinois who impugned the chastity of Catholic women, had his printing press destroyed four times, and was killed by a mob in 1837; he became an abolitionist martyr. | Elijah P. Lovejoy |