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Manifest Destiny and the Road to Civil War Flashcards

1
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Author
Purpose
Results

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Stephen Douglas;
Settlers can decide whether to allow slavery;
Bleeding Kansas
Rise of Republican Party

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Election of 1860

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Abraham Lincoln(R)
Stephen Douglas and John C Breckenridge (D)
John Bell (CU);
November election, December South Carolina secedes;
7 states secede(SC,GA,FL,AL,Mississippi,Louisiana,Texas)

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Mexican Cession

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Region Mexico Seceded to the US

Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Stereo typed all southerners as cruel slave holders

Written by Harriet Beecher Stowk

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The Impending Crisis of the South

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Addressed the scam of slavery, lowered salary of southerners

Written by Hinton Helper

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Bleeding Kansas

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Civil war in Kansas

John Brown believed he was put on earth to end slavery violently

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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Traveled Illinois debating with eachother

Freeport Doctrine

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Compromise of 1850

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Last attempt by Clay to save the union
California enters as free state
Upsets balance of states
Texas gets 10 million for losing territory
Slave trade banned in Washington DC
Fugitive Slave Law
Utah and New Mexico open to popular sovereignty

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Dread Scott Decision

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Slavery couldn’t be outlawed anywhere

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Webster-Hayne Debates

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Webster predicated nullification would lead to succession and disunion

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John Brown’s Raid

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Stereotyped northerners as abolitionists

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Roger B. Taney

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Judge during Dred Scott case
Any law that outlaws slavery is against the 5th amendment and unconstitutional;
A black man has no rights a white man would have to respect

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John C. Calhoun

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South Carolina Exposition and Protest

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John C. Fremont

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Califnornia

Bear Flag Republic

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Stephen Douglas

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Made popular sovereignty

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16
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David Wilmot

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Wrote Wilmot Proviso

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Harriet Beecher

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Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Wrote the Liberator

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Elijah P. Lovejoy

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Important Abolitionist

Shot defending printing press

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Popular Sovereignty

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Last say belongs to the people
Power of the state’s citizens to decide avout slavery
Stephen Douglas

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Missouri Compromise

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Missouri as a slave state
Main comes in as a free state
Slavery forbidden north of 36 30’

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3/5 Compromise

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Wrote slavery into the constitution
Padded southern voice in the federal government
Jefferson could not have been elected

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Ostend Manifesto

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US proposes to take Cuba to balance California

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24
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Winfield Scott

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Hero of the Mexican War

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Sam Houston

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Hero of Horseshoe Bend

Opposed Mexican War

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Harriet Tubman

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Underground Railroad

27
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James K. Polk

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Election of 1844

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Spot Resolution

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Mexican War

Show were the blood was spilled

29
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Henry David Thoreau

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Civil Disobedience

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54 40’ or Fight!

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James K Polk

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36 30’

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Conspiracy to add a territory south of 36 30’

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Webster-Ashburton treaty of 1842

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Mesabi Iron ore range

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Gadsden Purchase

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Puchase top bit of Mexico for 10 million

America has a conscience

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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

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Ended the Mexican War

Explosion of Sectionalism

35
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Zachary Taylor

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A hero of the Mexican War

Won election of 1848 over Louis Cass

36
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49 North

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James K Polk settled for border

37
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Willamette Valley

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Oregon Trail
20 thousand Ameicans settle
Boundary needs to be established

38
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Fugitive Slave Law

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Federal crime to assist a runaway ($1000)

Requirement to return slaves to the South

39
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Lone Star Republic

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Texas

40
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Bear Flag Republic

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California

41
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Seneca Falls

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Equal work and the right to vote for women

42
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Election of 1844/Liberty Party

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James K. Polk
Buy California
Annex Texas
54 40’ or Fight

43
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7th of March Speech

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Daniel Webster

Compromise if better than disunion

44
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Mesabi Iron Ore Range

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Minnesota iron ore deposit

45
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Free Port Doctrine

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Asked how popular sovereignty acted on Dred Scott Case

“People cannot outlaw slavery,they can refuse to practice it” - Douglas

46
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California Gold Rush

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Urgent Statehood

Compromise of 1850

47
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Effect of slavery on pre-civil war religion

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Split religions

48
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Garrison’s stance on slavery

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Implicit uncompensated emancipation of slaves

49
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Rise of the Republican party

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Kansas Nebraska Act

50
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Influence of Clay on Lincoln

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Clay opposed abolitionist and slaveholders because of their eagerness to divide the union and their denial of the meaning of the declaration

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Influence of Webster on Lincoln

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Provided Lincoln with arguments and reasoning on the concept of union
The Constitution is an attempt to embody the ideals of the declaration of independence
Believed to be the best speech

52
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Henry clay

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Great compromiser

53
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The Alamo

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Battle cry for Texas war for independence

54
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Transcontinental railroad

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Kansas Nebraska act

55
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Convention of 1846

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49 N

56
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Rio grande

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Disputed territory

57
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Republican platform

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Opposed westward expansion of slavery

58
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Compact theory

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South seceded because they believed they had the right to

59
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Wilmot proviso

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Proposal to ban slavery in Mexican territories

60
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Frederick Douglas

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Leading black abolitionist

61
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Frederick Douglas on Lincoln

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Union first

Slavery second

62
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Why did the south secede

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No voice in the house
Hate each other
Different cultures
More money
Since they created the union they can uncreated it
63
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Nat turner

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Fear in the south

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