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One result of the climate in the Southeastern United States |
slavery continued to grow as new agricultural products were introduced |
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Event caused by the American belief in "Manifest Destiny" |
The U.S. - Mexican War |
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Location of the "Plantation System" in America |
The South |
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Dred Scott |
former slave that was viewed as property of his owner in Missouri |
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Reason for lack of need of slaves in the North |
its economy was not based on agriculture but industry instead |
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Reason for slaves escaping to Canada |
The Fugitive Slave Act |
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The main goal of Manifest Destiny |
to expand the U.S from the east all the way to the Pacific Ocean |
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Two well known abolitionists |
William Lloyd Garrison;Frederick Douglass |
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Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 |
Solutions for the North and South to admit new states into the Union |
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1845 |
Texas Annexation |
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Mexican Cession |
the Southwest United States |
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Importance of Dred Scott decision |
reopened the issue of slavery in America |
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30.8% |
Percentage of Southerners that owned Slaves in 1850 |
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Abolitionists |
supporters of the Underground Railroad |
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All examples of American Expansion to the West |
Louisiana Purchase;Texas Annexation;U.S. - Mexican War |
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A piece of writing that argued for the fighting slavery |
"On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" |
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Feeling expressed by Frederick Douglass |
Slavery was wrong |
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All people that tried to end slavery |
John Brown;Henry David Thoreau;Abolitionists |
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Difference between Texas War for Independence and the U.S. - Mexican War |
One was fought for independence, the other to gain land |
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Supreme Court case that denied Congress the power to regulate slavery in the territories |
Dred Scott v. Sandford |
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Reason why abolitionists were against further Western expansion |
they feared more slave states would be admitted |
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Sectionalism |
increased the tensions between North and South |
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expansion of slavery into the Western territories |
Issue addressed by the Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Compromise of 1850
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Potato Famine |
Reason for the 19th century immigration of Irish to America |
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Word tied closely to John C. Calhoun |
Nullification |