APUSH 5.1 Flashcards

1
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The United States became more connected with the world as it pursued what?

A

expansionist foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere

emerged as the destination for many migrants from other countries

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2
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Enthusiasm for US territorial expansion fueled by econmonic and national security interests and supported by claims of US racial and cultural superiorities, resulted in what?

A

war
opening of new markets
acquision of new territory
icreased ideology conflicts

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3
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What was Manifest Destiny?

A

belief that it was America’s God given right to expand westward

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4
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What did Manifest Destiny and political debates increase in the US?

A

power in the Western Hemisphere

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5
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What did Manifest Destiny and political debates help promote?

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nationalism and belief of superiority

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6
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What shaped the era’s political debates? (Election of 1844 - Texas)

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Manifest Destiny

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7
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What were the impacts of the Mexican American War?

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Debates over slavery

COmpromise of 1850 deermined how newly aquired land would enter the union

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8
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What did the debates over slavery cause?

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WIlmot Proviso

Free Soil Party

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9
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How would newly acquired lands ender the union after the Compromise of 1850?

A

popular soverignty

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10
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What were the impacts of westward expansion?

A

Enviormental transfformation
New economic activities
Increased settlement especially on former native land

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11
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What resulted in the envirormental transformation?

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1870s decrease of buffalo

Removing grass to plant led to erosion of soil

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12
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What were some new ecomic activities?

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railroad construction, cities built around railroads

Mining (Comstock Lode - silver settlements built around resources)

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13
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Where did US want to expand trade to?

A

beyond its borders, especially Asia

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14
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What were the economic initiatives to US wanting to expand trade?

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Clipper ships-faster travel

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15
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WHat were the diplomatic initiatives to US wanting to expand trade?

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Matthew Perry

Opening of Japan (1850s)

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16
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What were the cultural inititatives to US wanting to expand trade?

A

Missionaries in China helped spread Christianity

17
Q

What reshaped North American boundaries and caused conflicts over Ameican cultural idenities, citizenship, and the quesiton of extending and protecting rights for various groups of US inhabitants?

A

Westward expansion
migration to and within the US
the end of slavery

18
Q

What was Old Immigration?

A

Irish and German from Northern and Western Europe

19
Q

Immigrants settled in communities together and kept what?

A

their religion, languages, customs

20
Q

Where did the Irish tend to settle?

A

in cities in the Northeast

21
Q

What religion was Irish?

A

Catholic

22
Q

Irish would work for lower wages but who did that anger?

A

American born workers

23
Q

Where did German’s settle?

A

frontier

24
Q

Whats another name for Catholic Schools?

A

Parochial

25
Q

What were the impacts of immigration?

A

Nativism
Know Nothing Party
Americans resented the Irish and German because they tended to vote Democrtic

26
Q

What is nativism?

A

dislike/hatred foreigners, sought to stop immigration

27
Q

What was the Know Nothing Party?

A

popular political party, anti-immigration and anti-catholic

28
Q

Who had new economic oppurtunites and religious refuge out west?

A

Asians
American Africans
whites

29
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What are some oppurtunites or examples of new economic oppertunities and religous refuge out west?

A

Gold rush (cities grew in population overnight)
Mormons sought refuge in Utah
Cattle ranching in the Dakotas

30
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What did the federal government (during/post Civil War) helped promote what?

A

economic development

westward expansion

31
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What act had 160 acres of land would be given for a small fee to anyone that moved west?

A

Homestead Act 1862

32
Q

State and federal governments often game _ to railroad companies to build.

A

subsidies (money and land)

33
Q

US expansion led to conflict with _ and _ (those living on lands formally belonging to Mexico), often changing their ways of life

A

Natives and Hispanics

34
Q

What event was when CO militia attacked Cheyenne Indians, killed over 100, mostly women and children?

A

Sand Creek Massacre (November 29, 1864)

35
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What event was when Natives attacked and killed Custer and all his men?

A

Little Big Horn (Custer’s last stand)

36
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US sought to assimulate nstives with the expectation of what?

A

they would adopt white ways

37
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Who was Mariana Vallejo?

A

Mexican born, helped the transformation of CA from Mexico to US