3rd Nine Weeks test👿 Flashcards

1
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Who was the man in debate who was against nullification?

A

Webster

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2
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Who proposed a compromise tariff and ended the crisis in 1833: was also known as the Great Compromiser?

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Henry Clay

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3
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What was the idea that states can reject federal laws?

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Nullification

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4
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Who was the nationalist who later defended sectionalism(Jackson’s Vice-President)?

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John Calhoun

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5
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Parties use rumors and lies to attack each other during political campaigns

A

Mudslinging

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6
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Presidents give people key positions in their administration if they supported them

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Patronage

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7
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Describe The Indian Removal Act of 1830.

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Jackson could revise removal treaties with the Native Americans: Forcing them to get off their land so we could use it for farming, gold, and other uses.

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8
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Describe the parts of the legacy of Jacksonian Democracy

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State and Local- a larger number of state and local officials were elected rather that appointed;
Campaigning- presidential candidates now had to conduct national campaigns. Large political parties were needed to organize them;
Popular Election- in the Election of 1812, only South Carolina used the old system by which presidential electors were chosen by the state legislator

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9
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Who was the founder of the first American colony in Texas?

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Stephen F. Austin

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10
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Who was the first president of the republic of Texas?

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Sam Huston

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11
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Who was the leader of the Mormon church after Joseph Smith died?

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Brigham Young

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12
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Who Opened the Santa Fe Trail?

A

William Becknell

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13
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Treaty that ended the war between the US and Mexico

A

Treaty of Guadalupe Hjeno

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14
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What was the last battle between Mexico and Texas where Texas won its independence called?

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Battle of San Jacinto

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15
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What was the name of the religious group that settled in Utah?

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Mormons

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16
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Belief that the US was sure to expand from sea to shinning sea?

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Manifest Destiny

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17
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Land bought for $10 million form Mexico for a transcontinental railroad?

A

Gasden

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18
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What are the results of the treaty that ended the was with Mexico?

A

Ended the War
Made Rio Grande the border
Said Texas was a part of the US

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19
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Push or pull?

Religious and political turmoil

A

Push Factor

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20
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Push or pull?

Population growth and crowding

A

Push Factor

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21
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Push or pull?

Abundant land

A

Pull factor

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22
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Push or pull?

Crop failures

A

Push factor

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23
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Push or pull?

Industrial Revolution

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Push factor

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24
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Push or pull?

Economic opportunity

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Pull factor

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25
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Push or pull?

Agricultural changes

A

Push factor

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26
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Push or pull?

Freedom

A

Pull factor

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27
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Who wrote the first detective story?

A

Edgar Allen Poe

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28
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Who wrote Moby Dick?

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Herman Melville

29
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Who was the founder of the Hudson River school of painting?

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Asher Durand

30
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Who wrote about simple life at Walden Pond?

A

Henry David Thoreau

31
Q

Who gave opportunities to blind people?

A

Samuel G. Howe

32
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Who gave opportunities to deaf people?

A

Thomas H. Gallaudet

33
Q

Education

A

Horace Mann

34
Q

Asylums and prisons

A

Dorothea Dix

35
Q

African-American woman who spoke out publicly against slavery and leader in struggle for women’s rights

A

Sojourner Truth

36
Q

Worked in the temperance and antislavery movements and built the women’s movement into a national organization.

A

Susan B. Anthony

37
Q

Spoke in public about personal witness of slavery; became an abolitionist

A

Angelia Grimkee

38
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Famous abolitionist who lectured about his experiences as a slave

A

Frederick Douglas

39
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Escaped slave who repeatedly risked life to help other slaves escape along the underground railroad

A

Harriet Tubman

40
Q

Organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848

A

Elizabeth Stanton

41
Q

A person who leaves a country

A

Emigrant

42
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A person who comes into a country

A

Immigrant

43
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Group with goal of restricting the influence of immigrants in the US

A

nativist

44
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Belief that people find truth within themselves through feeling and intuition

A

Transcendentalism

45
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Henry Clay

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created the plan to settle the California problem (Compromise of 1850)

46
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Stephen Douglas

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Was in charge of winning passage of the bill as the Democratic party “whip”

47
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Harriet Becher Stowe

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Wrote Uncle Tom’s cabin in 1852 to portray slavery as brutal and immortal

48
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John Brown

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Murdered 5 people because of their pro-slavery views and turnned people against the abolitionist

49
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Chareles Sumner

A

Senator of Massachusetts who gave an anti-slavery speach in Congress, packed with insults
A. A relative of Butler, Preston Brooks heard about the speach and went to the Senate floor and beat sumner with a cane
B. Spent 3 and a half years recovering from the beating

50
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John Freemot

A

1st Presidental cnadidate for Republican party

51
Q

Dred Scott

A

Was taken into a free state and back to a slave state and sued for his freedom

52
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Abraham Lincoln

A

The Republican candidate of the election of 1860

A.Candidate in 1860 who wanted to stop the spread of slavery

53
Q

Wilmot Proviso

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Stated that slavery would be outlawed in any territory the US might acquire form the war with Mexico

54
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Compromise of 1850

A

States California wold be admitted as a free state

A.The slave trade wuld be abolished in Wahington DC

55
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Fugitive Slave Act

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Made it illegal to assist or help runaway slave

56
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Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

A

Created territories of Kansas and Nebraska
A. Allowed settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery within those territories
B.Repealed the 36-30 line of the missori Compromise

57
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Republican Party

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Formed in reation to the Kansas Nebraska act of 1854

58
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Lincoln-Douglas debate

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  1. Lincoln argued, “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” Lincoln believed slavery should not be expanded
    a. Douglas argued slavery should be decided by popular sovereignty.
    b. Douglas won the debate.
59
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Harpers Ferry

A

Brown and several white and black men attacked a United States Marine arsenal to capture weapons and supply a slave revolt.Attack had failed and John Brown was captured and hanged for murder and treason

60
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States rights

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Political theory Southerners used to justify withdrawing from the Union

61
Q

Biggest issue that divided the north and the south

A

Compromise of 1850

62
Q

Popular Sovereignty

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Allowed settler to decide whether or not to have slavery within those territories

63
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First 7 states that seceded

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South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas

64
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Suffrage

A

The right to vote in political elections

65
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Abolition

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The idea of abolishing slavery

66
Q

Free Soil Party

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Formed to stop the spread of slavery into the new territories

67
Q

Correct order of events

A
Wilmot Proviso 
Free Soil Party
Republican party
Abraham Lincoln becomes president
Secession of South Carolina
68
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Bleeding of Kansas

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  1. An alternative, anti-slavery government was set up in Lawrence, Kansas
  2. pro slavery forces attacked because they say it as an illegal government
  3. A proslavery mob attacked and destroyed Lawrence Kansas killing anti slavery members
69
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Crittenden Plan

A

A compromise to keep the Civil war from happening