3rd Nine Weeks Study Guide

Question 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 1

wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 2

John Brown

Answer 2

Extreme abolitionist, killed 5 people to avenge the Sack of Lawrence.Had a plan to inspire slaves to fight for freedom. Brown and several white and black men attacked a US Marine arsenal to capture weapons and supply a slave revolt.The attack failed and John Brown was captured and hanged for murder and treason. Southerners were outraged by his actions, Northerners praised his deeds.

Question 3

Dred Scott

Answer 3

Sued for his freedom in Supreme Court, ruled that he had no rights

Question 4

Abraham Lincoln

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Republican party’s new leader,against slavery, presidential candidate in 1860

Question 5

Stephen Douglas

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was in charge of winning passage of the bill as the Democratic presidential party “whip”.

Question 6

Charles Sumner

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gave an anti-slavery speech in Congress, packed with insults including making fun of senator from South Carolina

Question 7

Man in debate who was against nullification

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Webster

Question 8

Proposed a compromise tariff and ended crisis in 1833

Answer 8

Henry Clay

Question 9

Idea that states can reject federal laws

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Nullification

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Indian who lead a group that won against US several times

Answer 10

Osceola

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Nationalist turned sectionalist, Jackson’s VP

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Calhoun

Question 12

Parties use rumors and lies to attack each other

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Mudslinging

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Presidents give positions to those that support them

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Spoils system

Question 14

Removal Act 1830

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Gave Jackson right to negotiate resettlement treaties, gave state’s the right to make laws for their territory

Question 15

Jacksonian Democracy

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3rd parties- Federalists died out, smaller parties form
State and local- state and local officials are elected
Campaigning- presidential candidate have national campaigns run by party

Question 16

First 7 states that seceded

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

Question 17

Crittenden Plan

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Last plan to prevent secession, wasn´t passed

Question 18

Abolition

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To remove slavery

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Popular sovereignty

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Allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery within those territories

Question 20

Biggest issue that divided north and south

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Slavery

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Compromise of 1850

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To appease the South, Congress will have no laws regarding slavery in any territory won from Mexico. And would pass a stronger law to help slave owners recapture runaway slaves.

Question 22

Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Created Nebraska and Kansas territories, removed 36 30 line,Allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery within those territories

Question 23

Wilmot Proviso

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stated that slavery would be outlawed in any territory the United States might acquire from the War with Mexico.

Question 24

Free soil Party

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formed to stop the spread of slavery into the new territories

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Republican party

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was formed in reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Was created from the Northern Whigs, Free-Soilers and a few Northern Democrats who opposed slavery.

Question 26

Fugitive Slave Act

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Made it illegal to assist or help runaway slaves.Suspected fugitive, or runaway, slaves could be held without a warrant. No right to a jury trial so many free blacks were captured and taken back to the South.

Question 27

Lincoln-Douglas Debate

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1858 Republican Abe Lincoln ran against Democrat Stephen A. Douglas for the Illinois US Senate seat.Lincoln believed slavery should not be expanded.Douglas (Little Giant) argued slavery should be decided by popular sovereignty.Douglas won the debate but Lincoln made a name for him and his new party.

Question 28

Bleeding Kansas

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Proslavery and antislavery settlers rushed into the Kansas Territory (1855).5000 proslavery Missourians voted illegally giving legislative power in Kansas to the proslavery group.Antislavery settlers boycotted and created their own government.A proslavery mob attacked and destroyed Lawrence Kansas, killing antislavery members and murdered 7 proslavery neighbors.

Question 29

Harper’s Ferry

Answer 29

John Brown and several white and black men attacked a US Marine arsenal to capture weapons and supply a slave revolt.Southerners were outraged by his actions, Northerners praised his deeds.

Question 30

``` Correct order of events: Wilmot Proviso Secession of South Carolina Republican Party Abraham Lincoln becomes president Free Soil Party ```

Answer 30

``` Wilmot Proviso Free Soil Party Rupublican Party Lincoln becomes president South Carolina Secedes ```

Question 31

Founder of the first American colony in Texas

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Stephen Austin

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First president of the Republic of Texas

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Sam Houston

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Leader of Mormon church after Joseph Smith died

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Brigham Young

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Opened Santa Fe Trail

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William Henderson

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Treaty that ended war with Mexico

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Battle where Texas won its independence

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San Jacinto

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Religious group that settled in Utah

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Mormon

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Belief that US was destined to expand from sea to sea

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Manifest Destiny

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Land bought for $10 million from Mexico for transcontinental railroad

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Gadsden Purchase

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3 results of the treaty that ended the war with Mexico

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Texas became part of US Rio Grande border US pays Mexico $15 million

Question 41

Push factors of immigration

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Religious and political turmoil, population growth, crop failure, Industrial Revolution, Agricultural changes

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Pull factors of immigration

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Abundant land, economic opportunity, Freedom

Question 43

Wrote the first detective story

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Wrote Moby Dick

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Herman Melville

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Founder of Hudson River School

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Asher Durand

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Wrote about simple life at Walden Pond

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Henry David Thoreau

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Group with goal of restricting immigrants influence

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Nativist

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Person who leaves a country

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Emigrant

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Person who enters a country

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Immigrant

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Belief that people find the truth within themselves

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Transcedentalist

Question 51

Henry Clay

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Created the plan to settle the California problem. Great Compromiser.

Question 52

Leader of opportunities for the blind

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Samuel G Howe

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Leader of opportunities for deaf

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Thomas H Gallaudet

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Leader of education

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Horace Mann

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Leader of asylums and prisons

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Dorothea Dix

Question 56

Printed abolitionist pamphlet and appealed to colored citizens of the world

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David Walker

Question 57

Published Liberator, calling for abolition

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William Garrison