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39 Cards in this Set
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American Colonization Society
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1817 emancipate slaves and arrange resettlement in Africa
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free blacks couldn't
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vote, attend public schools, sit next to whites in churches
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southerners 3 arguments
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1. "equal rights" congress couldn't impose conditions for statehood which differ from other states
2. slavery purely an internal affair, feel that sovereignty of state gov't 3. congress has no authority to infringe property rights in slaveholders |
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Missouri compromise
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admit slave and free state at the same time
Maine - free state 1820 Missouri - slave state 1821 kept balance in Senate set up 36th path parallel |
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Missouri Crisis 1818
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state wanted to come in as a slave state
unbalanced Senate |
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James Monroe 1816-24
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Era of Good Feeling (only 1political party)
Monroe Doctrine speech written to congress warns UK France saying western hemisphere belongs to US (warning Europe) |
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sectionalism
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difference between south and north about slavery
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John Quincy Adams 1824-28
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"Corrupt Bargain"
-America System |
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Corrupt Bargain
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John Quincy Adams made Henry Clay Secretary of state
Andrew J. had most elect. votes, Clay dropped iut and John Quincy Adams won |
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America system
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Henry Clay Idea
3 Parts 1. tariff on import (North had industrialization South depended on imports) south found it unconstitutional 2. used $ from tariffs & reinvest in US build infrastructures (overreach of gov't power and helps wealthy) 3. national bank |
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Andrew Jackson 1828-36
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"man of the people"
won due to expansion of democracy -poor white people could vote (changed requirement to own land) criticized by a lot of people vetoed Bill to continue national bank |
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Bank War 1832
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Biddle & Clay brought renewal I'd Bank earlier since they thought Andrew J wouldn't veto
Andrew J. does veto which killed it politically (veto) and economically took money from national bank to state bank 1837-financial panic bank officially ended |
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Nullification Crisis
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South Carolina didn't want to pay tariffs threatened to succeed
going to send army to pay tariffs |
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Indian Removal Act 1830
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native Americans considered sovereign nation can't make them leave
Jackson refused to enforce Supreme Court decision (AJ acted like tyrant) |
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Trail of Tears
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12,000 marched 4,000 died
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Civilized Tribes
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Cherokee
Chickasaw Choctaw Creek Seminole had a constitution (based off US) spoke english Christian written english |
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American Slavery
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began 1619
20 slaves showed up in January |
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Middle Passage
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10 week long trip
empty stretch of ocean between land |
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Charleston SC
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large slave market
more slaves than white citizens |
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Slave Codes
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laws which regulated lives of slaves
couldn't worship, leave property, testify against whites |
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Second Middle Passage 1790-1860
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1 million slaves between upper and lower south
largest human migration in US history |
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Coffle
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how slaves moved from north to south
chained together and moved in unison |
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Natchez Miss.
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2nd largest slave market
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Acts of Rebellion by slaves
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-fake stupidity
-commit crimes (arson, robberies) -self-harm -break tools -fake illness |
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Nat Turners Rebellion 1831
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South Hampton SC
August 7 1831 lasted 2 days 60+ white people killed NOT REVENGE BUT THOUGHT SLAVERY SUCKED |
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# of slaves in America 1861
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4 million
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myth of a happy slave
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slaveowners & slaves had a good relationship
slaves enjoy being slaves |
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Nat Turner
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preacher
believed he was a prophet |
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Fredrick Douglas
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first experience if slavery saw a women get whipped
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William Garrison
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went from gradualist (gradually get freedom back) to immediatist (immediate abolition of slavery w/o compensation for slave owners)
wrote The Liberator |
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Postal Campaign
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pamphlet of antislavery sent to ministers and politicians in north and south
triggered way of anger throughout south felt direct attack on way of life |
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American Antislavery Society
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how women spoke on abolitionism
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spoke out
organized petitions wrote on the subject |
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Seneca Falls 1848
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New York
strengthen rights of women custody rights protect women's inheritance |
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Declaration of Sentiments
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Elizabeth Cody Stanton
list of complaints on women's rights |
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Dorothea Dix
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mentally ill ppl put in asylum out of jail
prison reform |
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Lydia Finney
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worked with "fallen" women
started American Moral Reform Society |
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Angelina Grimke
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left wealthy family in South
submitted letter to Liberator saying it was God sent to end slavery slavery was corrupting influence on slave owners |
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Susan B. Anthony
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women's right to vote
Seneca Falls |
