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21 Cards in this Set
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Steam powered vessels made the trip faster, easier and cheaper and this lead to an explosion of what?
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Immigration to this country
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What were some factors that lead to immigration.
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Jobs, land, low taxes, lack of conscription, small government, no state church or mandatory tithes, no press censorship, not state police.
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Germans came to the US in greater numbers after what?
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Failed revolutions in hte years up the the Civil War
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Germans joined what political party?
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The Anti-slavery Whigs (and later Republicans)
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What was the Compromise of 1850?
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Offered by Henry Clay of Kentucky,
Califorina would be admitted as a free state New Mexico and Utah territory would be organized with no restrictions on slavery, to be decided later under popular sovereignty The slave trade would be abolished in DC, slavery would not be prohibited in DC Congress would not regulate interstate trade between states in slaves Congress would pass a new, stronger Fugitive Slave Act |
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What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?
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Brought the specter of slavery into the supposedly free North, as slave-catchers operated there.
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What was the underground railroad?
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run by a number of ex-slaves and sympathetic whites, maily Quakers, moved fugitive slaves to freedom in the North and Canada.
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Who is Henry "Box" Brown?
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He mailed himself to freedom.
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The Election of 1852 did what?
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Pitted a dark horse named Franklin Pierce from New Hampshire for hte Democrates versus General Winfield Scott for the Whigs Pierce was a "doughface"
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Why were railroads built in the North and not in the South?
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Most railroads moved east-west to exploit the resources on the frontier.
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What did transportation in the south depend on?
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Slavery and water transport.
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What was the Gadsden Purchase?
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James Gadsden of South Caroline purchased a strip below the New Mexico Territory from Santa Anna, again in office in Mexico, for $10 million.
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What did the Slave Power conspiracy theorists believe?
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That the government was planning to aid the South with this railroad and purchase.
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What is the Ostend Manifesto?
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Durring a meeting in Ostend, Belgium, a memorandum suggested that if Cuba rose in revolt, America should envade and take Cuba.
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What is Manifest Destiny?
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Simply a code for extending slavery.
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What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
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It would create Kansas and Nebraska territories. But it would repeal the Missouri Compromise and make the spread of slavery possible by popular sovereignty.
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What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?
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Split the Know-nothings and democrates and forced the creation of the Republican Party.
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What did John Brown group of men do?
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A group of men in Kansas territoryattacted a proslavery settlement at Pottawatomie Creek and dragged five pro-slavery men from their homes and hacked them to death with swords.
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Who was in the Election of 1856?
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Democrats dropped Pierce and selected James Buchanan. Republican's fielded John C. Fremont
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What was the Dred Scott Decision?
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Dred Scott v. Sandford; Scott, a slave, sued for his freedom saying thathe had been takend to the free state of Illinois and thr free territory of Wisconsin. Scott was found to not be an American citizen due to his race and thus could not sue in Court. Also determined that the Missouri Compromise was unconstiitutional, because congress did not have the power to take someone's property without due process.
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Lincoln-Douglas debates were what?
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A series of seven debates with Stephen A. Douglas. These debates were printed across the country
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