U.s. History-Final Exam

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What was Precarious Pillar of the Black Community about?

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Free black men from the North working as merchant seamen.

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What was a benefit for the black men who worked on ship?

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1. Equal pay (though low)

2. Chance to prove masculinity and serve as family provider

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What was a disadvantage for the black men who worked on ships?

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Labor was feminized (cooking/cleaning) which created a conflict the masculinity felt at home by being able to provide for their families

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How did black seamen view their work differently than white ones?

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Saw it as a career

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What did Martin Van Buren express about sectionalism and the need for a new political party?

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Said that powers lies with people and government should serve the people?

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What part did Van Buren want to see reorganized?

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The Old Republican Party

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What did Jon Quincy Adam's First Annual Message to Congress in 1825 express?

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Government knows best and can't be "palsied by the will of the people" and a government improves a national through acts/works.

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What was the major issue with the Tariff of 1828?

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Called for tax on imported goods, thus raising the price for goods from Europe for Americans. England retaliated by taxing the import of Cotton into England. This led to Southern planters being essentially double billed.

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Why does John C. Calhoun believe the Tariff of 1828 should be nullified?

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It favors the North over the South and states should have governing authority instead of federal government.

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What was Andrew Jackson's views on the Nullification Crisis of 1832?

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Says federal government has a right to lay and collect tariffs and further states that the Constitution and the laws of the United States government are the supreme law of the land.

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What does Barbara Welter's "The Cult of True Womanhood" discuss?

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Was the idea that the perfect white middle class woman belonged in the home taking care of it and children.

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What as John O' Sullivan's views in Annexation written in 1845?

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That is was America's "manifest destiny" to have access to and inhabit the western lands of the US that were currently being controlled by Indians, especially as it applies to the annexation of Texas from Spanish rule.

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What was William Lloyd Garrison's (publisher of "The Liberator" views on abolition?

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He greatly favored abolition and said the the country was being "palsied by public indifference" toward the issue.

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Where did one of the greatest Frontier revivals take place?

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Cane Ridge in 1801.

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What was the result of The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?

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The Declaration of Sentiments

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What did the Declaration of Sentiments call for?

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Women's suffrage (the immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the U.S.).

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What did the 2 Faces of Republicanism in S.C. discuss?

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Highlighted the justification for slavery that included: marriage/family and religion

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What did Wilmot's "I Plead the Cause of the White Freeeman" discuss?

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How slavery takes jobs away from free laborers.

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How did Dew view slavery in his essay?

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As a "positive good". Claims that everyone benefits from it including yeoman farmers and slaves. Says slaves are cared for and protected by owners and don't have to work for a barely livable wages as they do in the North.

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How does Frederick Douglas view slavery?

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As a corrupting influence

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Why did Lincoln want to end slavery?

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To end the war. His initial stance was that he wasn't against slavery but rather the expansion of it. He felt that states should have sovereignty to decide.

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What did the Confiscation Act allow for?

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Union solders to capture slaves and use them to aid the war effort.

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What did the Emancipation Proclamation serve to do?

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Set all slaves in the South free

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What did the 13th Amendment do?

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Abolish slavery all together

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When does Lincoln finally admit that war is about slavery?

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In his second inaugural address

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How does the Civil War compare with the American Revolution?

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Colonist didn't necessarily seek independence in the beginning but rather fair/equal treatment from the British. The Civil War didn't call for the end of slavery but rather the end of expansion and to allow for states to decide.

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What led to the War of 1812?

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The War of 1812 was a military conflict that lasted from June 18, 1812 to February 18, 1815, fought between the United States of America and Great Britain, its North American colonies, and its North American Indian allies. Historians in the United States and Canada see it as a war in its own right, but Europeans often see it as a minor theatre of the Napoleonic Wars. By the war's end in early 1815 the key issues had been resolved and peace came with no boundary changes.

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What did the 1st great awakening focus on?

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1. Protestant movement

2. Centered around tent revivals and traveling preachers.

3. Focused on an emotional outreach

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What did the 2nd great awakening focus on?

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1. Religion as an individual experience

2. Public conversion experience

3. Saw establishment of denominations such as Baptist, Methodist, etc.

4. Says everyone is equal in the eyes of God.

5. Spoke of self-constraint

6. Formation of utopian communities such as the Shakers and the Mormons

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Who made up the earliest form of abolitionists?

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Quakers, Free Blacks, and Slaves

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What was the role of the American Colonization Society (founded in 1816)?

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The gradual emancipation of slaves and the recolonization of them back to Africa, Caribbean, or Central America

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What was the purpose of the establishment of Texas in the 1700's?

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Largely as a defensive measure against the French

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What as the purpose of moving into California in 1769?

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To offset the Russians

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This calls for slavery to be excluded in the new territories?

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The Wilmot Proviso

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Dred Scott Decision?

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In 1857, the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, therebynegating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.