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79 Cards in this Set
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Components of the Compromise of 1850 for the North
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California enters as a free state
Territory disputed by Texas and N. Mexico surrender to N. Mexico Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC, but not anywhere else |
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Components of the Fugitive Slave Act
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Slaves cannot testify
Slaves have no jury trial The judge receives $5 if slave is freed and $10 if returned Fines and/or jail for those who hinder the return of slaves |
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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Nebraska comes in as a free state
Kansas to be decided by popular sovereignty |
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Components of the Compromise of 1850 for the South
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The rest of the territory is decided to be free or slave by popular sovereignty
Texas reimbursed 10 million More strict Fugitive Slave Law |
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Ostend Manifesto
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South wants Cuba
Spanish seize a US steamer; Pierce wants to treat it like an act of war Pierce sends diplomats; negotiations break down North finds out; enraged |
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Significance of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Very popular stereotypes created
Helped spread abolitionism and sectionalism Huge impact |
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Presidents of 1850
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Taylor
Fillmore Pierce Buchanan |
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What was the Know Nothing Party against
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Irish Catholics
Immigration |
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What was the Know Nothing Party for
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Native Protestants
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What unified the Republican party
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Slavery
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Dred-Scott Case
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Scott was the slave of an army doctor who had died
The doctor had traveled to free soil with Scott; Scott wanted to sue on claims that he had often lived on free soil Chief Justice Taney from SC |
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Ruling in the Dred-Scott Case
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Slaves are not citizens of the US, therefore they cannot sue in federal court
Slaves are property of their owners Missouri Compromise unconstitutional |
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Effects of popular sovereignty in Kansas
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Bleeding Kansas
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Result of John Brown's raid
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Is considered a martyr
Abolitionism |
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What did the Sumner-Brooks Affair say about America
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Reveals how insanely people feel
Really sectional |
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Why was the Election of 1860 fateful?
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Determined whether SC would secede
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Result of Lincoln's election
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Secession of SC
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In what order did secession go?
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Lower South
Upper South |
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What happens in the first month of Lincoln's presidency
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Fort Sumter
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Def. Crittendon Compromise
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Were proposed amendments to the Constitution
Slavery prohibited north of the 36 60 line Future states enter the Union based on popular sovereignty |
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What was the capitol of the Confederacy
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Richmond, Virginia
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Who was the president of the Confederacy
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Jefferson Davis
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Advantages of the North
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Lots of factories
Canal mileage Railroad mileage Population Existing govt intact Food production Resources |
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Advantages of the South
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Defensive war
Moral advantage Better generals In the event of a tie; would win |
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Significance of First Bull Run
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Underestimate each other; thought it was going to be an easy win for the battle and the war
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Significance of Shiloh
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Enables the Union control of the Upper Mississippi
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Significance of Antietam
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Does not become an international war
Border States stay with the Union Lincoln able to issue the Emancipation Proclamation |
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Significance of Vicksburg
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Enables Union control of the Upper and Lower Mississippi
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Significance Gettysburg
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Lee's last lunge in the North
Largest battle No foreign intervention |
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Significance of Sherman's March to the Sea
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Scorched Earth Policy
Total destruction |
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Significance of Appomattox
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Union victory
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Anaconda Plan
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Blockade the Southern coastline
Take control of the upper and lower Mississippi March troops through the Deep South Take the capitol |
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Definition of Lincoln's Draft Law
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First conscription law
Military service required for those 20-40 Could hire substitute or pay for exemption |
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Where was Emancipation Proclamation
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The South
Not the Border States |
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National Bank Act 1863
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First standard bank note
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What was the time between Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassination?
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5 days
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Percent of slaveholders that owned more that 100 slaves
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Less than 1%
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Percent people who grew cotton as an export
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50-60%
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Definition of yeoman farmers
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Non slaveholding
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Lincoln's primary purpose in the Civil War
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Unification
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First major transportation project
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Lancaster Turnpike
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Why was the US slow to catch onto the Industrial Revolution
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Need for it?
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Why is GB the first to industrialize?
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Peninsula?
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What did Howe do
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Invented the sewing machine
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What did Singer do
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Make the sewing machine small
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Order of the transportation revolution
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Turnpike
Canal Steamboat Railroad |
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Significance of the Erie Canal
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Increased agriculture
Faster shipping via waterways |
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Definition Manifest Destiny
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Westward movement because it's the US's "destiny"
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Three phases of Texas
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Province
Lone Star Republic 28th State |
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What was Polk's prize?
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California
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How did Polk settle Oregon?
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Overpopulated it with American's so the British would butt out
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Treaty of Guadalupe - Hidalgo
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Officially ends the war
Mexican Cession for $15 million |
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Two threatening problems for Lincoln
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Foreign interference
Secession of border states |
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What era did canal building occur
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Early 1830s
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Platform of the Republican party
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No extension of slavery
Pro-Protective Tariff Free land |
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What was the Northern position on slavery
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No extension
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Definition of the Virginia Kentucky Resolutions
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State legislatures had the right to judge constitutionality of federal laws
States could nullify federal laws that they deemed objectionable |
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Goal of the America Colonization Society
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Send slaves back to Africa
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Components of the American System
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Central Bank
Protective Tariff Internal Improvements |
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Purpose of the American System
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Union
Reduce sectionalism |
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Proclamation of 1763
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Ends Salutary Neglect
Cannot go past the Appalachian Mtns |
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Purpose of the Stamp Act
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Revenue for the standing army
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Why did Jackson not agree with
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Nullification
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Why could Indians not unify
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Diversity
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Components of the Financial Programs of Hamilton
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Funding by creating a new debt to pay back the old debt; through bonds
Assumption: Idea that the federal govt will take the debt of the states Selling off Western Lands Customs Duties and Excise Taxes: Small tax on imports and whiskey |
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Why was Virginia settled
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To look for gold and get rich
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Battle of Saratoga
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French agree to ally with the US
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Marbury vs Madison
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Judicial review
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What were compromises that the Constitution made when adopted
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3/5ths Compromise
Fixed political representation |
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Why was Shay's Rebellion frightening to America
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Thought the mobocracy was rising up
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Who said "Remember the Ladies"
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Abigail Adams
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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Planning and organizing North West
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Land Ordinance of 1787
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How a territory becomes a state
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Why was the Articles of Confederation weak
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Did want to appear tyrannical
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Purpose of Great Britain's mercantilism
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Self sufficiency
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What did Whitney invent besides the cotton gin
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Interchangeable parts
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Who supported the staying of the Cherokees
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Marshall (the Judicial Branch)
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What did indentured slavery provide for GB
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New life and opportunity
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Tariff of Abomination
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Nullification
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