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Question 1

Polks presidential goals

Answer 1

• settle Oregon
• settle California
• decreased tariff
• independent treasury

Question 2

Compromise of 1850

Answer 2

California Freestate
The rest of the states- popular sovereignty
Stricter fugitive slave law
• no trial by jury
•Citizens who attempted to hide runaway slaves were subject to penalties and prison
• Federal officers could summon bystanders to help capture runaway slaves
• slave trade abolished in DC
• Texas paid $10 million to give a part of their land
HS: popular sovereignty was spread by this compromise and Stephen Douglas California became a free state and all of the benefits eventually would end up causing more conflicts many thought it would be the compromised and all compromises however it didn’t for example popular sovereignty would end up causing bleeding Kansas

Question 3

Ostend manifesto

Answer 3

US France and England all have an eye on Cuba
-Polk tries to buy Cuba for 100 million but Spain refused to sell the last major Reminence of its once glorious empire
-Countries began to negotiate through letters
-letters leaked to the American press
• if Spain refuses to sell for 125 million then go to war
-Situation dropped

Question 4

Aroostook War

Answer 4

-lumberjack war
-Canadians and Americans fight over Maine’s boundary line
-near New Brunswick
-Canada is under British rule which makes them sort of our enemies at the time
-treating negotiated by Webster and Ashburton a British ambassador called the Webster Ashburton Treaty of 1842
• disputed territory was split between Maine and British Canada
• settled the boundary of Minnesota territory

Question 5

Lecompton constitution

Answer 5

Kansas is constitution -pro slavery
-put to vote but if not that is a clause would still allow people to keep slaves
-anti slavery people boycotted it
-Douglas declares that Kansas isn’t a state
•upsets the south and he loses support

Question 6

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 6

• Nick tryst gives Santa Anna $10,000 to help with the treaty
• we gain in from Texas and Rio Grande
• we give Mexico until 18.25 million conscience money
• 3.25 was to smooth over relations
• this was one of the largest Land treaties

Question 7

Dred Scott vs Sabdford (1857)

Answer 7

Scott was a slave who lived in a free territory for two years when Scott argue that his budget residence on Freesoil made him free Chief Justice Roger teeny seven Democrat said slaves are not citizens and I had no right to sue in federal court slaves were property that can be brought anywhere Congress had no power to deprive anyone of their property and any laws that outlaw slavery are unconstitutional because property is protected by the Constitution.
-makes the Missouri compromise and Northwest ordinance unconstitutional

Question 8

John Brown incident

Answer 8

John Brown and his men read the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in order to get weapons to arm sleeves this happened as a result of proslavery attack on Morris some abolitionists did not agree with Brown’s methods including Lincoln
-John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 set off a wave of fear throughout the slaveholding South South tried to suppress all criticism of slavery and proslavery Southerners incorrectly with John Brown to the now hated black Republican Party intensify the sectional bitterness and left the nation on the brink of disunion

Question 9

Sumner brooks incident

Answer 9

Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner verbally attacked South Carolina Senator and your brother and his speech the crime against Kansas Preston Brooks but there’s nephew beat Sumner with a cane to defend his uncle thought that dueling was too good for Sumner became was fit for a dog north without Rachel Southerners applauded Brooks and sent him or canes when he was reelected into Congress

Question 10

Uncle Tom’s cabin

Answer 10

Published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe regarded Southern slaveowners as cruel and inhumane the importance to know that the monster was a northern slaveowners agree even read by people in Europe south you do as propaganda against Southern lifestyle it was acknowledged by Abraham Lincoln as the book that started the great war

Question 11

Kansas Nebraska act of 1854

Answer 11

Proposed by Stephen Douglas because Douglas wanted to go to transcontinental railroad in the north wall the same time increase the value of its own land in Chicago but needed southern approval since the south preferred a transcontinental railroad in the south to gin southern approval he proposed popular sovereignty what territories were north of stuff 3630 line and with and repealed the Missouri compromise of 1820. Provided an opportunity to expand slavery in areas that previously had been closed.
HS: The birth of the Republican Party
-it causes Douglas W support from the north
-emigrant aid company was organize which paid people to go west and vote for anti-slavery
-border ruffians from MO come over and vote proslavery
-bleeding Kansas
-it’s in the Senate (Senator Sumner)

Question 12

Personal liberty laws

Answer 12

Individual northern states pass laws providing protection for runaway slaves from the fugitive slave act
HS: goals of these walls were to make it difficult to prove the slaves were escaped slaves and belong to recapture
Provided
• trial by jury
• defense attorney

Question 13

Wilmont Pro Viso

Answer 13

David Wilmot propose this to allow California into the union as a free state
-this would have been slavery from all Mexican territory and it never gets past but it starts an argument over slavery in the new territories

Question 14

Douglas Lincoln debates

Answer 14

From the election for the Illinois senator position in 1858 prior to this Lincoln was not nationally known compared to Douglas Lincoln spoke of slavery as a moral issue and Lincoln’s house divided speech one hand thing the government cannot indoor permanently half sleeve and half free however this call southerners to view Lincoln as a radical even though Lincoln was not a radical abolitionist he was on the expansion of slavery Lincoln attack Douglas is indifference to slavery as a moral issue and Douglas responded with the Freeport doctrine Douglas when the election but he alienated southern Democrats. Lincoln emerged as a national figure in a leading contender for the Republican nomination and election of 1860

Question 15

Freeport Doctrine

Answer 15

Created by Douglas that state in the spite of Dred Scott decision slavery could be excluded from the territories of the US by local legislation
People versus courts Douglas chose the people and for the south south believe that Douglas did not try hard enough to support the Dred Scott decision
Led to the downfall of Douglas and ultimately Lincoln winning the election which caused South Carolina to secede

Question 16

Tyler and the joint resolution

Answer 16

Tyler was awake on the ballot but acted like a democrat Tyler annexed Texas with the 1845 joint resolution the joint resolution meant that he only needed a single majority in both houses for Texas to become a state rather than two thirds majority while president he did whatever he wanted to and to not listen to client Webster he left Polk with the issue of dealing with Mexico’s reaction to Texas annexation

Question 17

Oregon

Answer 17

France, Russia Spain and GB occupy Oregon
We populate the territory faster so they give it up (except GB)
We jointly occupy the territory
We settled once Polk became president
McDuffie does not think this territory is good while Hennigan supports it
Great Britain only tries to hold on because of Vancouver and Columbia River so now we have that trade all for ourselves

Question 18

Charles Sumner

Answer 18

Radical Republican strong ideals abolitionist
His the crime against Kansas speech angered the south
The beating of him and bleeding Kansas for the first part of the war that show the south was ready to secede

Question 19

Robert Rhett

Answer 19

Father of secession denounced compromise of 1850 help to nullify tariff in South Carolina and suggested all the states that have seceded created new union

Question 20

Treaty of Jacinto River

Answer 20

Declares Texas independent Santa Anna claims he was forced to sign so it does not count 1836 Texas is free Texas wanted to come in as a slave state but Jackson did not want to have taxes in the union because the slavery issue

Question 21

North does not follow the Constitution

Answer 21

The South playing the north did not follow the Constitution aspect of personal liberty laws this counter the fugitive slave act because these liberty laws included allowing trial by jury for slaves the Dred Scott decision made on constitutional to forbid slavery anywhere which this north did which was unconstitutional

Question 22

Pierce

Answer 22

Elected in 1852 is a Democrat (downfall of wig party)
Attempted to expand
Looked at hawaiii Mexico Cuba Central America
He bought more of Mexico in 1853
He completed the Gadsden Purchase which settled all American borders
Also made contact with Japan in order to trade

Question 23

Douglas

Answer 23

Past window at a time of compromise of 1852 allowed to get past his debates with Lincoln show the slavery issue he introduced the Kansas Nebraska act which race to concern to his followers he claimed Kentucky state constitution Lecompton constitution was unfair because it was past or denied it still allowed slavery he strongly believed in popular sovereignty

Question 24

George McDuffie

Answer 24

South Carolina resident favorite annexation did not want Oregon he thought it would cost too much money to make a rover did to mountains and no farming

Question 25

Manifest destiny

Answer 25

God grant of US just need to and Westerland first said by John Sullivan United States had followed this concept until the main body of the US was
HS: and infamous painting with an Angel by John Gast was created and it should the mass the idea of manifest destiny
Also with this concept United States had eventually created to Maine boundaries

Question 26

Texas versus Mexico Texas resolution 1835 1836

Answer 26

It all began when the colonists of the Texas province of Mexico began to revolt against the Mexican government eventually Texas declared independence and it became the republic of Texas Stephen Austin was sent in and he fought alongside the Texas forces Sam Houston was also sent in and defeat Santa Anna Mexican ruler at the time Houston had forced Santa Anna to sign a treaty however it was controversial whether or not it was eligible
HS: after the war Texas was officially free in 1836 were at least for the time being Texas will remain independent for nine years 1836 1845

Question 27

Actions versus Mexico 1846 to 1847

Answer 27

Fresh land up for grabs U.S. Senate eyes upon annexing Texas Great Britain had also saw Texas Aslan to grow cotton all that the land wasn’t rich enough eventually American blood was somehow sailed on American land and because of this poke waged war the war itself didn’t last long as we had crushed American forces
HS: arguably one of the most dominant US wars Guadalupe Bay Hidalgo was signed in and we had gained a substantial amount of new land along with that Texas was officially annexed into US shortly after

Question 28

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -Trist Treaty

Answer 28

This was the treaty formed after the Mexican-American war Polk had the opportunity to form a treaty on his own terms but this was opposed by the whigs bthe outcomes of this treaty where we get California and all that between to California also except New Mexico and Arizona we will give Mexico around $18 million Mexico now formally recognized as the lost Texas
HS: The leaves have projected the street because they didn’t except the idea of manifest destiny however with this treaty manifest destiny was one step closer to becoming reality we had set the boundaries of the Rio Grande with Texas and gained one quarter of the United States main body or most of the west

Question 29

James k Polk 1835 to 1839 (1 term)

Answer 29

American politician and eventually became the 11th president of the United States he was a strong advocate of annexing Texas and eventually dead by signing the trist Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo he was also under heavy fire from his disputes with Great Britain over Oregon
HS: and sitter the most successful president by that I scholars and historians this is because he had only four goals those being reduce tax independent treasury get California settle disputes with Great Britain about Oregon

Question 30

Fugitive slave law

Answer 30

Required all slaves that had escaped to be returned to their masters many slaves had escaped to the north and were sought after to be captured and returned the structure version formed after the compromise of 1850 had formed hysteria in the north
HS: The North had called it a hoax many had viewed it such that if the slaves were returned they would be eventually killed anyways they called his owners inhuman and this would eventually cause for disunion

Question 31

Kansas Nebraska act

Answer 31

Posed by Stephen Douglas this was originally made because Douglas had intentions of the transcontinental railroad have ever lead to Kansas and Nebraska been created and having them being decided by popular sovereignty
HS: act completely shattered the Missouri compromise his role of 3630 and the balance of states I had potential to be broken as such popular sovereignty had led to believe in cancers and this had sparked up for definite cause for disunion

Question 32

Stephen Douglas

Answer 32

Titian and was most well known for debunking and helping spread the word of the compromise of 1850 other notable things known for
-Kansas Nebraska act popular sovereignty and ending as a democratic runner in the election of 1860
-known for debates with Lincoln Lincoln Douglas debate’s
HS: passing the Kansas Nebraska act and his views of popular sovereignty eventually lead to bleeding Kansas on top of that his involvement in the compromise of 1850 let’s all the many benefits California Freestate fugitive slave law etc.

Question 33

John Brown

Answer 33

Abolitionist and politician from the north many saw him as a very radical abolitionist as he carried out various trades and intact he was most noted for the raid on Harpers Ferry during this rate he tried to give the scape slaves weapons and revolt however he was captured and hanged
HS: Brown became the prime example of why the abolitionist seem to do more harm than good the south especially didn’t like the north after much of his rates

Question 34

Spot resolution

Answer 34

Congressman Abraham Lincoln wants to know the precise spot or Mexican shot and shed American blood on American soil
-wakes question validity of the Mexican American war