Chapter 6 test Flashcards
what central issues influence the arguments for and against the admission of Texas as a state?
President Jackson favored the request but the northern representatives in Congress did not want another slave state, especially one so big and powerful. Texas president, Sam Houston, threatened to join the British Empire. And because Britain occupied the Oregon Territory, this alarmed expansionists. Southerner expansionists supported James K. Polk who believed in Manifest destiny. The whig candidate Henry clay opposed Texas annexation. Polk promised to obtain the Oregon` territory along with Texas to appease the northern states. This caused him to win the election.
What was the significance of the alamo to texas independence and texas statehood?
Santa Anna led his army north into Texas. In March 1836, his forces attacked the small Texan garrison at the Alamo, a fortified former mission in San Antonio. After 12 days of cannon fire, Mexican troops overran the walls of the Alamo. Refusing to keep prisoners, Santa Anna ordered the defenders slaughtered. The victims included Anglo-Texans Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett, as well as a dozen Tejanos
the fallen defenders of the Alamo became martyrs to the cause of Texan independence. The slogan “Remember the Alamo” rallied the Texans and attracted volunteers to their cause from the southern United States.
How did the treaty of GH help complete the goals of Manifest Destiny?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo forced Mexico to give up the northern third of their country and added 1.2 million square miles of territory to the United States. The United States got to keep New Mexico and California. They also secured the Rio Grande as the southern boundary of Texas.
Henry David Thoreau- why he supported the transcendentalist movement
One of Emerson’s most important followers was Henry David Thoreau. In 1846, Thoreau was jailed after refusing to pay taxes to support the Mexican-American War, which he viewed as immoral. Thoreau explained his thinking in a landmark essay, “Civil Disobedience,” in which he argues that a person must be true to his or her own conscience, even if it means breaking the law.
Second Great Awakening
Religious revival movement, influenced American society, church membership skyrocketed, new religious groups were formed. Its focus on the spiritual self-improvent encouraged Americans to improve society as well. , by working for a wide variety of social reforms.
Second Great Awakening and Women.
As a result of the Second Great Awakening, Women began to take more active roles in public life. The drive to reform American society created by the SGA provided new opportunities for women. Many joined reform groups sponsored by their churches. Women played leading roles in many important movements such as the public school movement, the temperance movement,the penitentiary movement,, and the abolitionist movement.
Denmark Vesey and Nate Turner respond to slavery.
Nate Turner was a slave that led a successful revolt. He lead followers through Richmond Virginia. They got weapons from an armory and killed 60 before being stopped. Vesey, a freedman, planned what would have been the greatest slave revolt in history. Prompted into action by shutdown of his church, created a plan that called for slaves in Charleston and surrounding plantations to seize weapons from arsenals and use them to destroy Charleston and free all the slaves. News of it was leaked, and he and his accomplices were hanged.
How William Lloyd Garrison was a different abolitionist than others.
He began his own antislavery newspaper, the Liberator, which used dramatic language to convince people that slavery was morally wrong. (moral suasion) He advocated for immediate emancipation and the extension of full political and social rights to African Americans.
Gag rule
Many white northerners wanted to stay out of the slave controversy. When southern politicians pushed a gag rule (a rule that prohibited debate and discussion in Congress on the subject of slavery), some northerners supported them. First passed in 1836, the gag rule was renewed annually for 8 years.
How did southerners respond to the arguments offered by abolitionists?
They stated that slavery was necessary because it formed the foundation of the South’s agricultural economy. They also argued that slavery benefited the North since the North’s textile and shipping industries depended upon southern cotton. They maintained a slave labor work force was superior to the wage labor force of the North. Northern workers would be at odds bc employers wanted workers to work more for less money while they wanted to work less for more money and that with slaves the slave-holders fortunes depended on the well-being of the slave and vice-versa. Some said the Bible supported slavery.
Seneca falls convention.
Nation’s first Women’s Rights Convention. The delegates adopted a “Declaration of Sentiments” . It was ridiculed and the convention resulted in few improvements in women’s rights. It marked the beginning of the women’s movement in the U.S. It inspired many young women.
Married Women’s property act
In 1848, New York passed this act. IT guaranteed many property rights for women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked hard for its passage. This act became a model for similar laws in the state for many years to come.
What ethnic group suffered the most for mining gold?
Native Americans
Which of the following compromises offered a solution to the problem posed by Texas?
Oregon compromise
What country US came into conflict with moving westward?
Mexico
