HIST 105 Bach Exam Q&A

HIST 105 Bach Exam Q&A Redeemers - ANSWER A loose coalition of prewar Democrats, Confederate veterans, and Whigs who took over southern state governments in the 1870s, supposedly "redeeming" them from the corruption of Reconstruction. They shared a commitment to white supremacy and laissez-faire economics Vesey Conspiracy - ANSWER An unsuccessful 1822 plot to burn Charleston, South Carolina, and initiate a general slave revolt, led by a free African American, Denmark Vesey Underground Railroad - ANSWER A network of safe houses organized by abolitionist (usually free blacks) to help slaves escape to the North or Canada yeoman - ANSWER Southern small landholders who owned no slaves and who lived primarily in the foothills of the Appalachian and Ozark Mountains. They were self reliant and grew mixed crops, although they usually did not produce a substantial amount to be sold on the market. American Colonization Society - ANSWER Founded in 1817, the society advocated the relocation of free blacks and freed slaves to African colony of Monrovia, present day Liberia. Second Great Awakening - ANSWER Evangelical Protestant revivals that swept over America in the early nineteenth century. temperance movement - ANSWER Temperance - moderation or abstention in the consumption of alcoholic beverages - attracted many advocates in the early nineteenth century abolitionist movement - ANSWER Reform movement dedicated to the immediate and unconditional end of slavery in the United States Seneca Falls Convention - ANSWER An 1848 gathering of women's rights advocates that culminated in the adoption of a Declaration of Sentiments demanding voting and property rights for women Manifest Destiny - ANSWER Coined in 1845, this term referred to a doctrine in support of territorial expansion based on the belief that the United States should expand to encompass all of North America Alamo - ANSWER In 1835, Americans living in Mexican-ruled Texas fomented a revolution. Mexico lost the resulting conflict, but not before its troops defeated and killed a group of American rebels at the Alamo, a fortified mission in San Antonio