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73 Cards in this Set
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How does the tariff issue illustrate a serious difference other than slavery between the North and the South? |
Revenue and protection. |
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Why is slavery however the big issue? |
Because it called for blood. |
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How old is slavery? |
As old as humanity. |
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Who invented slavery? |
No one did it as old as humanity. |
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When and why did race become a factor in the history of slavery? |
19th century and in the Americas only. Africa was on the way of the trading routes. |
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How did that change the issue? (Race) |
Man began to think that the white race was more superior than the black race. |
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Why did slavers ship their cargoes in such horrible conditions? |
Profit, easy, control, selection and racism. |
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How did slave owners control their slaves? |
Physical brutality, psychological techniques , fear ignorance isolation christianity. |
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How did the teachings of Jerusalem play into the slave owners hands? |
It made them think nothing of their worldly possessions and tweaked the words of christ. |
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Why did psychological techniques often take precedence over physical? |
Because if a slave was beaten it would make him worthless to a buyer. |
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What did the founding fathers do about slavery at the constitutional convention in 1787? |
Morally wronged but necessary evil. Procrastination. |
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Why? |
Procrastinated it because they didn't want to deal with it at the time. |
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Prior to about 1800, how did the average educated and aristocratic southerner regard slavery? |
A necessary evil. |
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As time passed afterwards, how and why did this attitude change? |
Positively good because the slaves were better off a Christian slave in america than a free man in africa. They can process cotton much faster and receive a higher profit. |
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Why did Jefferson call the Missouri compromise of 1820 a fire bell in the night? |
Suggesting Republic was burning down. |
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What concerned him about the Missouri question? |
The house dividing itself north non slavery and south slavery. |
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What motivated the compromise? |
That after the compromise they agreed anything beyond Missouri is considered a northern state. |
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Why did the British hope to preserve Texas independence? |
For the cotton industry. |
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Why did the US refuse to admit Texas to the union for nearly a decade after the Texas had expelled the Mexican government? |
Because they believed they were going out have a problem with the Missouri compromise. |
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What was the manifest dynasty? |
An article Sullivan wrote claiming where we are going to end up in the present time. |
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How did the rise of manifest destiny and the Mexican war affect Americans attitudes towards their sectional differences? |
South was annoyed because the north would have more territory. |
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What was policy determination regarding the northern half of mexico? |
To own it for america. |
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Why did he say he had sent troops into the disputed territory in Texas? |
To start the Mexican war. |
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What was the result of the Mexican war in terms of territorial transfer? |
America got the north side and Mexico got the southern side. |
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How did the Mexican war affect the historical image of the US? |
That we took land from our helpless neighbor. |
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What reality softens the effect? |
We would have conquered Texas anyway in the future. |
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What did osullivans article about it say it would do to california? |
Conquer it. |
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How did it relate to the slaver issue? |
It had nothing to do with it. |
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Why could it have led to another war with britain? |
Because it was right next to oregon and Washington. |
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Why did it lead to war with mexico? |
Because they wanted more land from mexico. |
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How and why have white historians tended to minimize the immorality and scope of slavery in the US? |
Transcend an illusory sense of now of an eternal present and to strive for an understanding of the forces and events that made us what we are. |
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Until well into the 20th century how did Americans typically appear in the national imagination? |
This mythology existed because the slave holding south had counteracted it's military defeat by winning the ideological war or in other words the way the 20th century American public understood slavery and the civil war. |
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Compared to the economy of the industrialized north in the 19th century how strong was the slave economy of the south? |
The greatest concentration of rich pre civil war Americans lived in the deep south and that in 1860 the market valejos of slaves exceeds that of the nation's railroads and factories combined. And that if the south had been a seperated country to would have been more prosperous than any European nation except England. |
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How big was the negros problem in america? |
Few American know that by 1820 nearly 8.7 million slavery had departed from Africa for the new would as opposed to the 2.6 million whites many of them convicts or indentured servants who had left europe. |
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How important to the national economy was slave grown cotton? |
Souther slave grown cotton was the nation's leading export. |
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Before the civil war how widespread was slavery in america? |
Just in the north. |
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How influential were southern slave holding presidents and other politicians? |
Southern slave holding presidents governed the nation for roughly 50 of those 72 years. They ruled and lived in a national Capitol deliberately placed in a slave holding and slave trading region. |
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What was the gag rule in congress? |
The gag rule prevented Congress from hearing hundred of petitions calling for abolition of slavery in western territories. |
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Who was Harriet tubman? |
Was once a former slave but she was named modes because she helped thousands of slaves escape to freedom using the underground railroad. |
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What was her real name? |
Araminta. |
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What factors prompted her to flee to freedom? |
Knowing that she should have been born free not a slave led her to contemplated freedom and resent her situation. |
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Why was tubman so successful in bringing so many slaves to freedom? |
She was very organized. |
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Why did tubman return to the south so many years times to free other slaves? |
Because she wanted to velour and get her family out of slavery. |
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How did the fugitive act change her status in Philadelphia? |
She once was free but then it decided that she was a fugitive slave. |
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What was the underground railroad? |
The way slaves took to get to freedom. |
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How did it operate? |
She would lead and have other slaves help out. |
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How did tubman fiance her work? |
With her own money and some public figures. |
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What ended her trips to South as modes leading her people to freedom? |
Ended as the southern stats began to secede to format the confederacy and the government of Abraham s.d Lincoln prepared for war. |
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What roles did tubman play during the Civil war? |
A spy nurse teacher and helped work with the military. |
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How much did the US pay her for her services during the war? |
200 for three years. |
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What dd tubman do after the war? |
Established schools help write a book and stand up for women's rights. |
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What honors did she eventually receive? |
With full military honors. |
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What is the first impression of tourist when they see the Alamo? |
This is it. |
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How accurately have the most mies portrayed the Alamo? |
Not at all. Totally fiction. |
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What does the battle mean to the texans? |
They gave texans their independence from Spain. |
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What did it mean for the Americans? |
The actual confrontation remains a symbol of courage of ordinary men placed n extraordinary circumstances. |
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How do race and ethnicity figure into the legend of the Alamo? |
Mexicans spoke Spanish and texans spoke English. |
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Was the Texas revolt a race war? |
No not really just a territorial war and independence war. |
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What part of slavery play I the story of the Alamo? |
Many Alamo heroes foremost among them had been slave holders even slave traders. |
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What incentives did mexico offer to Americans to come to Texas? |
Because Texas was inhabited by Apache and Comanche who were not looking for neighbors mexico offered us settler cheap land. |
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Why did mexico begin your see that opening Texas to Americans was a mistake? |
Immigrants from Texas were starting to come into mexico and America wanted more land. |
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Who was Santa Anna? |
Handsome agonist and power crazed dictator who called himself the napoleon for the west. |
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What happened to cause the texans to reject Mexican authority? |
Because they wanted their independence from mexico. |
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Who were travesty bowie and crocket? |
Three volunteer soldiers. |
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Why were they in Texas in 1836? |
Had come to and Antonio for the struggle of independence and runaway from being in trouble in Louisiana. |
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What was the quality of the Mexican army that invaded Texas in 1836? |
When they were not fighting frostbite and disease the men endured repeated attacks from commanches who raided them for muskets blankets and food. |
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What mistakes did general Santa Anna make at Alamo? |
Anna refuse to negotiate terms his decision was purely political. |
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What happened on the final of the battle? |
He burned the bodies of the victims. |
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What happened to the Mexican army in the aftermath? |
The victims were slaughtered. |
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Why does the author consider territorial acquisitions in the treaty of Paris and treat of the ghent as the tow most impressed? |
Let the United states become United states. |
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Why does the Oregon treaty make the list? |
Fixed the northern US border at the 49th parallel still enough to bring present day Oregon Washington Wyoming and Montana into fold. |
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Why did US buy Alaska and not greenland? |
Because it was a lot of land and a lot of money. |
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Why was letting greenland go a good thing or bad? |
Good because of global warming. |
