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Who won the Mexican-American War?
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The U.S
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Why do we remember the Donner-Reed party of 1846
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Cannibalism
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what re started migration to california in 1849
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the gold Rush
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which section of the country fought against homesteading Acts in the U.S Congress
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the south
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"Bleeding Kansas"refers to what controversy that caused setllers to resort to violence
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slavery
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The Dred Scott Decision by the Supreme court declared that no law could be mad to ban slavery from any state or territory in the US who was "Dred Scott" in this case
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slave
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What did John Brown try to do in 1859 in Harper's Ferry, Virginia..
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start a slave revolt
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The election of which president in 1860 provoked the secession of southen states from the Union
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Abraham Lincoln
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What crop revitalized slavery in the 1830s and provided material for the new industries of the north?
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cotton
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Who was the first president of the Confederate States of America
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Jefferson Davis
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Chattel slavery is defined as
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Life long
inherited by children of slaves human beings are property |
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Ancient forms of Slavery(Roman,biblical) all have what in common..
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children of slaves are born free
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African-americans
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What book did more to change American minds about slavery than any other printed source/
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uncle toms's Cabin
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What was the crucial factor in creating a sympathetic response to the condition of slaves in that book?
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humanizing slaves
showing the brutality of slavery |
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Frederick douglass was a prominanty anti-slavery writer and speaker who once was
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a slave
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"manifest destiny" was the belief in the 1840s that the US should
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expand across the continent
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the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints started a migration to where in the 1840s
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the salt lake Basin
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The Wilmot Proviso sought to prohibit slavery from
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any territory acquired from Mexico
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What congressional action temporarilyu settled the sectional crisis in 1850?
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the Compromise of 1850
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What U.S. state according to your professor is arguably the best of them all in 1870.
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texas
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Who won the Mexican-American War?
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the U.S.
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Why do we remember the Donner-Reed party of 1846?
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Cannibalism
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what advantages did the U.S.A have over the C.S.A in the Civil war
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population
railroads factories |
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200,000 of the men who served in the U.S.A military during the Civil War were from which group
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African Americans
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On April 14, 1865, who was assassinated in washington D.C?
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Abraham Lincoln
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The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves but only those who were in what areas?
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in the Confederacy
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Who won the American Civil war
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The US
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