History Exam Final

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2nd Middle Passage
What
Who
Where
Why
Significance

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What- Force movement of black population to the South.
Who- Slave Population
Where- South
Why- More labor for cotton
Significance- Families being separate, Increase slavery, Increase black population.

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American Colonization Society
What, Who, Why

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What- A society moving free blacks to Africa.
Who- White leaders of the ACS
Why- ACS didn't believe that white and blacks could live with each other.

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Seneca Fall Convention (1848)
Who
What
Where
Significance

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Who- Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stamton, Susan B. Anthony
What- A mass Meeting for Women rights to vote.
Where- Seneca Falls ,New York
Significance- Beginning of the Women suffrage movement.

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Texas Revolution (1835-1836)
Who
What
Where
Why
Significance

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Who- Sam Huston, Santa Anna
What- A war over the Mexican gov. and Texas
Why- Whites wanted Freedom of religion and Slavery in Texas.
Where- Texas(duh)
Significance- Texas can now be annexe to the US and starts the debate. Create tension between Mexico and US.

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Annexation of Texas (1846)
Who
Where
What
Why
Significance

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Who- John Tiyer, Sam Houston, James K. Polk
Where - Texas
What- Texas is annex to the US
Why- Manifest Destiny which made Mexico mad since they didn't accept Texas being independent.
Significance- Lead to the Mexican- American War and gaining Texas.

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Mexican-American War (1846-48)
Who-
What-
Where
Why
Significance

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Who- Zachary Taylor, Winfield Scott, Jame K. Polk
What- Started by U.S, A war over Texas
Where- North Mexico
Why- Manifest Destiny and the Annexation of Texas
Significance- Gain a lot of land for the South-west which started the questions over slavery states and free states.

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Wilmot Proviso
Who
What
Where
Why
Significance

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Who- David Wilmont
What- Proposal in the U.S. Congress to prohibit the extension of slavery to the territories.
Where- The new South-West
Why- To stop the spread of slavery into the vast Southwestern territories
Significance- The proviso provoked a national debate that reflected the growing sectional discord between North and South.

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Compromise of 1850
Who
What
Why
Significance

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Who- Henry Clay
What- Series of measures passed by the U.S. Congress to settle slavery issues and avert secession.
Why- To prevent the civil war for a while
Significance- Moderates throughout the Union accepted the terms, which averted secession for another decade but sowed seeds of discord. Does the Fed gov. have the right to control slavery?

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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Who
What
Why
Significance

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Who- Harriet Beecher Stowe
What- A novel about the horrors of Slavery
Why- To address and humanize slavery and make it a moral issue.
Significance- North: Gain support for abolitionist. South: See it as false, Scare for slavery being attack and ended.

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Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)
Who
What
Where
Why
Significance

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Who- Stephen A. Douglas
Where- Territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
What- created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement.
Why- To open up many thousands of new farms and make feasible a Mideastern Transcontinental Railroad
Significance- The land became pack and Cause Bleeding Kansas.

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Bleeding Kansas (1854-61)
Who
What
Why
Significance

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Who- North- John Brown South- Davis Atchison
What- a period of civil unrest between proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new Kansas Territory.
Why- Because of popular sovereignty everyone to solve the issue of the territory states.
Significance- Chaos of the Nation, More pressure on sectionalism.

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Charles Sumner Affair (1856)
Who
What
Where
Why
Significance

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Who- Charles Sumner, Preston Brooks
What- a Congressman, Brooks, from South Carolina, entered the Senate chamber and beat Sumner unconscious with a cane.
Where- The Senate floor
Why- Sumner speaks ill over the south so Brooks beat him.
Significance: More pressure on North and South. North see the south as unreasonable people.

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Dred Scott Case (1857)
Who
What
Why
Significance

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Who- Dred Scott, Roger B. Taney

What- ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States that made slavery legal in all U.S. territories.

Why-Scott sued for his freedom in Missouri in 1846, claiming his residence in a free state and a free territory made him free.

Significance- Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories. Rule that blacks are not civilians and have no rights.

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Lincoln Douglas Debates (1858)
Who
What
Where
Why
Significance

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Who- Lincoln- Republican, Douglas- Democrat
What- Lincoln series of debates for sentient race
Where- Illinois
Why- For a sentient seat in Illinois, Lincoln is trying to show Douglas policy's faults and tear it a part.
Significance- Lincoln gain a lot of rectification from it and show how different between North and South.

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Harper Ferry (1859)
Who
What
Where
Why
Significance

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Who- John Brown, Robert E. Lee
What- A raid on a federal arsenal at Harper Ferry by John Brown.
Where- Harper Ferry, Virginia
Why- To start a slave rebellion.
Significance- Southern view the North as unreasonable and cause panic as well as accelerated the sectional divide over slavery.

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Election of 1860
Who
Results
Significance

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Who- Rep-Lincoln, 3rd- Bell, N Demo- Douglas, S Demo- Breckiridge

Results- Lincoln won

Significance- First wave of session form the South. South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama.

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Crittenden Compromise (1860-61)
Who
What
Why
Significance

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Who-John Crittenden
What- Series of compromises in 1860 – 61 intended to forestall the Civil War.
Why- To avoid the Civil War
Significance- Shows how bad things have gotten.

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Emancipation Proclamation
Who
What
Where
Why
Significance

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Who- Lincoln
What- A executive order to free all slaves in the rebellion states.
Where- The South
Why- Moral- To end Slavery
Leadership- Delcine a ally to England with the South.
Military- No labor for the South
Political- To gain votes from the North.

Significance- Moral Booster, allow black in the army. To ended slavery is now a goal for the war. A set up for the 13th amendment.

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American Legacy Reader Chapter 15?

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The Seneca Falls Convention had around 300 people with Cady Stanton went to the meeting in Seneca Falls,New York. After eighteen hours, they signed the final draft of the Declaration of Sentiments. The news of the Seneca Falls Convention spread over the states. Most of the news was against the Seneca Falls Convention. Some of the women wanted their names to be remove due to the bad press. Cady Stanton wrote back to all of the newspapers articles. Resulting other meetings of women. The Seneca Falls meeting was the beginning of the movement of women. Because of women tireless work, In 1919, the women suffrage amendment was pass.

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American Legacy Reader Chapter 16

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Nat Turner was a slave who can read the bible. he acted as a preacher at times. He had a vision one day to wait for a sign. An eclipse of the sun, started to make plans and on a green hue day he started a meeting for a rebellion. The meeting was the plan to kill every white person they see. The next day, Nat Turner and his followers killed everyone at Mr.Turner's legal master plantation. Nat Turner move on a "s" shape path and killed any whites on it. A militia was alarm and ended it the next day. The rebellion cause the south to panic.

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American Legacy Readers Chapter 19

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Dred Scott was suing for his freedom. He used old cases like the Winny vs Whitesides and the Rachel v. Walkers to base his own on. However, Scott loss the first case then try again and again. At the case Scott v. Sandford, Judge Robert W. Wells rule that black could not be citizens therefor have no rights. The ruling of the case cause the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional which cause for a new solution for the problem of where slavery had stop at. After the Democratic party fell apart then Lincoln won the presidency. The civil war broke out after that.

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American Legacy Readers
Chapter 20

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The combat trauma of the civil war was similar to post-trauma disorder. The civil war was the bloodiest war at the time. Men who did not have the skill to dissociation, to continue to work, broke down. The infantrymen often fought with each other. The war show the mind can be change by war.