Test 3 Flashcards
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US and England.
Ended the War of 1812.
Status Quo: everything went back the same
Treaty of Ghent
US and England.
Both agree that they will not place armed warships on the great lakes.
Rush Bagot Treaty
US and England.
- Border of US and Canada is on 49th parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains
- Both agree to joint occupation of the Oregon Territory, an agreement that is renewable and can be cancelled with due notice
Convention of 1818
US and Spain.
- US gave up all claims to Texas
- Spain ceded to the US Florida. The US agreed to pay the $5 million that Spain owed Americans
- The western border of the Louisiana Purchase was set
- Spain gave up all claims to the Oregon Territory
Adams-Onis Treaty
- Missouri would be admitted as a slave state
- Maine would be admitted as a free state
- No slavery permitted north of 36 degrees 30 minutes, the southern boundary of Missouri
The Missouri Compromise
- American continents were no longer open for colonization
2. The US agreed not to interfere/intervene in the affairs of Europe and Europe stayed out of the Western Hemisphere
The Monroe Doctrine
- States created the federal government, not we the people
- states kept right to judge whether a law was constitutional
- if a state felt that a law passed by congress was not constitutional , it could call a state convention and nullify that law
- If other states considered the nullified law to be important, they could use the amendment process and add it to the constitution
- If the nullifying state was still unhappy, there was one last option: secession
The South Carolina Exposition and Protest
- The US gained 7000 square miles of the disputed land in the Aroostook Valley
- Britain gained 5000 square miles of the disputed land
- Joint occupation of Oregon continued
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- Mexico gave up all claimes to Texas
- Mexico agreed boundary between Mexico and US would be the Rio Grande River
- Mexico gave up any claims to California and the Mexican Cession
- The US agreed to pay Mexico $15 million
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
No slavery would be allowed in any land acquired during the Mexican War. Defeated in the senate by the south.
Wilmot Proviso
- California admitted as a free state
- Popular Sovereignty used to determine the free/slave status of remaining territories
- Slave trade but not slavery banned in Washington, DC
- A stronger Fugitive Slave Act passed, making the return of runaway slaves a federal law
Compromise of 1850
Signed by the US and Mexico.
The US paid Mexico $10 million for 30,000 square miles of land to be used for building the nation’s 1st transcontinental railroad
The Gadsden Purchase
- The Nebraska Territory would be divided into 2 territories, Kansas and Nebraska
- Popular Sovereignty would be decided the slave status of the 2 territories with the expectation that Nebraska would be free and Kansas slave
- The Missouri compromise would have to be replaced because if voters decided Kansas should be a slave, that would violate the Missouri compromise
The Kansas Nebraska Bill
Secret plan to acquire Cuba as slave territory
- The US tried again to buy Cuba from Spain
- If Spain decided to sell Cuba, no action was needed
- If Spain refused to sell Cuba, the US would decide if it was a military threat
- If Spanish owned Cuba was a military threat, the US would be justified taking Cuba from Spain
Ostend Manifesto
- Slaves were not citizens and could not sue in the federal courts
- Slaves would never be citizens
- Slaves were property and protected by the 5th amendment
- Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
The Dred Scott Decision
Slavery in those states still in rebellion against the US would be declared free. This did not affect slavery in any other part of the US.
The Emancipation Proclamation
First African American female writer
Phyllis Wheatley
Writer. Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Rip Van Winkle.
Washington Irving
Writer. Moby Dick.
Herman Melvil
Writer. Puritan. Second Great Awakening.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
One God. One denomination.
Unitarian Church
Pushes for changes for the mentally ill.
Dorothea Dicks
Two big issues.
Women’s suffrage. Abolishing slavery.
Ignored all petitions to end slavery.
Gag law
