Reform Movement

Question 1

Abolition Movement Goals

Answer 1

bring an end to slavery: slave rebellions, recolonization, immediate abolition, underground railroad

Question 2

American Colonization Society

Answer 2

founded by Paul Cuffe, the goal was to recolonize black people and slaves and bring them back to Africa, the idea was too expensive and wasn’t supported by black people since they had no cultural roots to Africa

Question 3

Underground Railroad

Answer 3

pathway system with “conductors” who would guide slave escapees to free states. Route changed to Canada after Fugitive Slave Act.

Question 4

Fugitive Slave Act 1850

Answer 4

gave the ability to catch slavery escapees without having to go to the court and claim the slave is theirs, changed UR route to Canada

Question 5

US vs Amistad Court Case

Answer 5

foreign policy issue since Amistad was a Spanish ship, ruled that slaves can stay

Question 6

Three Slave Rebellions

Answer 6

Denmark Vesey: Take an arsenal - arm the slaves, Failed idea, never happened because someone told their owner
Nat Turner: killed 60 people, Virginia arsenal
John Brown: Harper’s Ferry arsenal, never happened because he was arrested before it could.

Question 7

Transcendentalism and its Philosophy

Answer 7

Created by Emerson, the belief that nature is religion

Question 8

Hudson River School or Art paintings

Answer 8

created by Thomas Cole, painters traveled west to paint landscapes to portray nature

Question 9

Horace Mann Reform on Education

Answer 9

first education reformer wanted to give teachers proper professional training, remove religion from the curriculum

Question 10

Declaration of Sentiments

Answer 10

mimicked the Declaration of Independence, was written at the Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights; right to own property, have custody of children, etc. Right to vote wasn’t given until 20th century

Question 11

Manifest Destiny

Answer 11

the belief that it was America’s divine right to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean

Question 12

Reasons Americans went to Texas

Answer 12

Mexico invited Americans to Texas to cultivate the land and offered land grants to Moses Austin. Offered land for cheap.

Question 13

Problems with Americans living in Texas

Answer 13

Texans had to become Mexican citizens and follow Mexican laws such as being Catholic and having no slaves.

Question 14

Texas Revolution

Answer 14

other Texans go after Santa Anna and win without the help of US government. Texas becomes an independent country for 9 years not under US Jurisdiction after making treaty with Mexico.

Question 15

Politics of why the Alamo was not supported by the United States

Answer 15

US would be declaring war with Mexico if they sent troops, Texas wasn’t a part of the US.

Question 16

Politics of the Annexation of Texas

Answer 16

Texas was a slave state, if annexed Congress believed it would be unfair to free states and expand slavery. Mexico also still believed Texas was under their control even though Texas was already its own country.

Question 17

Conflict with England over the 54 40 Boundary in Canada

Answer 17

Americans believed that we should take the Oregon territory and North to Canada.

Question 18

Agreement with England over the disputed territory in Canada

Answer 18

49 parallel boundary by Washington state

Question 19

Reason for the Mexican-American War

Answer 19

disputed over Texas boundary: US believed Rio Grande river to be the boundary, Mexico thought the Nueces river should be the boundary.

Question 20

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 20

ends war, US buys territory of Texas and California for 15 million.

Question 21

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 21

raised the idea that slavery should not be spread to the newly acquired territories

Question 22

Donner Party Ordeal

Answer 22

Donner Party took the wrong shortcut south of the Great Lake and ended up being their downfall. Temporarily discouraged people from going west.

Question 23

Positive and Negative Impacts of the California Gold Rush

Answer 23

after Donner Party fright, tons of people go to California area where gold was discovered to try and strike it rich. Area was crowded and diseases were spread. Barely any people actually found gold.