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Who were the candidates of the Election of 1844?
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James Polk and Henry Clay
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Who said
"54°40' of Fight"? What does it mean? |
James Polk. America's border should be extended deep into Canada
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What did Polk's supporters want?
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Immediate annexation of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California
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signed with Great Britain, allowed US to acquire peacefully what is now Oregon, Washington, and parts of Idaho
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Oregon Treaty
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What happened when Mexico refused to sell land to Polk?
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He provoked them into attacking American troops which resulted in the Mexican-American war
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Why did northerners (namely abolitionists) oppose the Mexican-American war?
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They believed that Slave Power had influenced this war and if those states were annexed, they would become slave states
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right Southerners who allegedly were "pulling the strings"
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Slave Power
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a Congressional bill prohibiting the extension of slavery into any territory gained from Mexico
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Wilmot Proviso
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a regional, single-issue party devoted to the goals of the Wilmot Proviso
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Free-Soil Party
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How was the Mexican-American War?
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Easy for the American troops
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What was the Mexican Cession?
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After the Mexican-American War, Mexico handed over Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, and Utah
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What was the official name of the treaty that resulted in the Mexican Cession?
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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How did Congress escape the question of whether or not the Mexico Cession territory would be slave states?
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Popular Sovereignty
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the territories themselves would decide, by vote, whether to allow slavery within their borders
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popular sovereignty
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What happened to the Whigs?
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Webster and Clay had died, so the Whigs split into two:
Antislavery Whigs (which joined the Free-Soil Party) and the Cotton Whigs |
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What started the talks of secession after the Treaty of Hidalgo Guadalupe?
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California wanted to be a free state
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What did Stephen Douglas do when the Compromise of 1850 didn't go through?
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He split the compromise into individual bills and got a majority to vote on each
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What were the provisions of the Compromise of 1850?
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-California is a free state
-stronger fugitive slave law -created Utah and Mexico but left it up to popular sovereignty |
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What made the Compromise of 1850 controversial?
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Popular sovereignty was loosely defined
Free states would have to cooperate with fugitive slave laws |
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a sentimental novel that based her damning depictions of plantation life on information provided by her abolitionist friends
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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Stowe
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-left fate of slavery up to popular sovereignty
-repealed the Missouri Compromise |
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
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required a trial by jury for all alleged fugitives and guaranteed them the right to a lawyer
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personal liberty laws
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Northern Democrats, Free-Soilers, and some Whigs created:
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Republicans
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were dedicated to keeping slavery out of territories, but also advocated American System and expansion
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Republicans
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met privately and remained secretive about their political agenda, rallied around the hatred of foreigners (nativism)
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Know-Nothings
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What happened to the Know-Nothings?
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They split because they were having inner fights about slavery
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proslavery Missourians
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Border Ruffians
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as a result of demolishing the abolitionist city of Lawrence, Kansas this guy led a raid on a proslavery camp, murdering 5
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John Brown
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gangs from both sides in Kansas started fighting and attacking opposition; 200 died
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Bleeding Kansas (Bloody Kansas)
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What was the result of Preston Brooks pummeling Charles Sumner on the head?
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destroyed President Pierce's political career
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What made James Buchanan a good choice for election?
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He had been out of the country for 4 years and could not be blamed for anything
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What were the rulings of Dred Scott v. Sandford? Who ruled this?
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-slaves were property and had no rights
-Congress can't decided what can or can't be a slave territory Roger Taney |
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What were the Lincoln-Douglas debates for?
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Illinois Senate Seat
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Who said:
"This nation cannot exist permanently half slave and half free" |
Abraham Lincoln
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What was the Crittenden Compromise?
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After Lincoln was elected some Southern people tried to stay in the Union
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Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware
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Border States
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What did Jefferson Davis attempt to do as soon as they had seceded from the Union?
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Try to make up in the industrialization the South had lost
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What did Jefferson Davis' sudden try for industrialization cause?
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inflation
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What did conscription in the Confederacy cause?
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Class conflict. Rich men could escape out of drafts
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What happened to the North economy after the South seceded?
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It started to gain more because of war-time needs
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overcharging the government for services and products
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war profiteering
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Name the provisions of the Confiscations Acts
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-gave government the power to seize slaves used for "insurrection purposes"
-liberate any slave that was owned by a rebel -gave the Union the right to liberate all slaves |
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conceded that the war was necessary to preserve the Union
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War Democrats
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accused Lincoln of instigating a national social revolution and criticized him as trying to destroy the South
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Copperheads
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helped newly liberated blacks establish a place in postwar society
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Freedman's Bureau
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