History 1301 Textbook Terms to Know for the Final Exam (By Reading Set)

** The terms in italics are those discussed quite a bit in the textbook as well as during
lectures.

** Remember for the final exam that there are some extra terms to know (underlined
terms on PowerPoint slides) that are not on this list

Reading #1: American Slavery and the Old South (Chap. 12, pp. 283-89)

“Second Middle Passage”

Living and working conditions for slaves
paternalism
Resistance strategies of slaves
Female slaves
“Free Labor”

Reading #2: Northern Blacks/Abolitionism [Ch. 12, pp. 279-83; Ch. 13, pp. 308-15]

Free blacks in the North

American Colonization Society
William Lloyd Garrison
David Walker
Frederick Douglass
Underground Railroad
Grimké Sisters
Elijah Lovejoy
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls Convention

Reading #3: Mexican War/The Compromise of 1850 [Ch. 14, all pages; Ch. 15, pp. 343-51]

Oregon migration
Texas Revolution
Mormon exodus to Utah
“Manifest Destiny”
James Polk
Mexican War
Henry David Thoreau
California Gold Rush

“Slave Power”
Wilmot Proviso
Popular Sovereignty
Zachary Taylor
Stephen Douglas
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Reading #4: Kansas-Nebraska Act/Coming of the Civil War [Ch. 15, pp. 351-65]

Franklin Pierce
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Ostend Manifesto
Kansas-Nebraska Act
American (or Know Nothing) Party
Republican Party
Charles Sumner
John Brown
Dred Scott case
Lecompton Constitution
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Harpers Ferry Raid
Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860
Crittenden Compromise
Fort Sumter Crisis

Reading #5: Civil War I [Chap. 16, pp. 369-390]

Advantages for North and South

“Copperheads”
Trent Affair
Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
George McClellan
Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle of Shiloh
ironclads
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Fredericksburg
suspension of habeas corpus
Emancipation Proclamation
New York City Draft Riots
Clara Barton
Mary Walker
Belle Boyd

Reading #6: Civil War II [Chap. 16, pp. 390-399]

Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Gettysburg
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign
Gen. William Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
Election of 1864
George McClellan
Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox
Thirteenth Amendment