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33 Cards in this Set
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prejudice |
an unreasonable, usually unfavorable opinion of another group of people |
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obsolete |
outdated |
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manifest destiny |
argument that it was the undeniable fate of the US to expand across North America |
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annex |
to join or attach, as in the joining of a new territory to an existing country |
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nativism |
the policy of favoring native-born Americans over immigrants |
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popular sovereignty |
policy of letting the people in a territory decide whether slavery would be allowed there or not |
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free soiler |
person dedicated to preventing the expansion of slavery into the western territories |
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Arsenal |
place where weapons are made or stored |
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secessionist |
person who wanted the south to secede |
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lower south |
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina |
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upper south |
designation used in the civil war Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, & Arkansas |
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border state |
states between the north and the south Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri |
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who wrote uncle toms cabin? |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Impact of uncle toms cabin in the north: |
shock. northerners became convinced that slavery would be the ruin of the US |
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why were southerners happy to get Texas as a new state to the union? |
gain another slave state |
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what did both the north and the south fear if Texas was annexed? |
unbalance in free and slave states. unbalance of power in congress. |
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reason why the revolt in CA was called the Bear Flag Revolt: |
the bear represented the spirit of the settlers who ferociously took the town of Sonoma. |
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why did the Mexican war start? (3 reasons) |
-annexing of Texas -boarder disputes - |
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treaty that ended the war and the conditions: |
treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Mexico gave up claims to the western portion of Texas, Mexico gave up CA, US paid Mexico 15 mil., US paid claims against Mexico (3 mil.) |
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what was the Gadsden Purchase? what territory did we gain? |
Purchase of the final bit of land to finish the US. 30,000 sq. miles of territory (southern portion of New Mexico and Arizona). |
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what did the Wilmot Proviso state? |
showed a growing gap between the north and the south. |
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how did the north use the Wilmot Proviso as a reminder to the south regarding their opinion on slavery? |
showed that slavery was pulling the US apart |
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after the Mexican war was over, what question kept coming back into politics? |
slavery or no slavery |
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what was the argument if the newly added states became free or slave? |
Missouri Compromise stated that states above the 36 30' were free and the ones below were slave. |
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who came up with the Compromise of 1850 an what were the five terms in it? |
Henry Clay came up with it 5 terms: -CA is free -NM & Utah chose -no sale of slaves in D.C. -TX pays 10 mil for territory -Fugitive Slave Act |
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why didn't the north like the Fugitive Slave Act? |
they didn't want to send slaves back, they wanted to help them. |
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2 new political parties in 1854 after the decline of the Whigs: |
Democratic Republicans & Know-Nothing's |
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who came up with the Kansas-Nebraska act and what did it do? |
Stephen Douglass said that Kansas and Nebraska would chose slave or free |
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how did the north and the south view John Brown's raid of Harper's Ferry, and what was its affect? |
the north liked him and the south hated them for liking him. |
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why was the south upset that Lincoln won the election of 1860? |
he won without a single southern vote. |
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what was the argument secessionists gave for leaving the union? |
their rights were being abused |
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what was the name of the group of states that seceded and who was their president? |
the confederate states of America & their president was Jefferson Davis |
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first unofficial battle of the civil war: |
battle of Fort Sumter |
