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Unit 3: Expansion and Disunion Flashcards

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The attitude that the members of a nation have when they care about their nation identity; extreme pride in one’s country and nation

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Nationalism

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Finding identity in one’s region (section); extreme pride in one’s region and regional identity; creating national disunity

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Sectionalism

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Where did the Industrial Revolution began?

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In Great Britain

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What was the main source of income before the Civil War in the United States?

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Intercontinental trade of cash crops, not manufacturing.

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What Act and War changed the United States main source of income?

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Thomas Jefferson’s Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812.

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What was never profitable in New England?

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Agriculture

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What provided waterpower to textile mills in New England?

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An abundance of streams and rivers

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What type of people are going to work at the mills in New England?

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Thousands of people, mostly young women, are going to come to work at these mills.

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WHO began to open a series of mills?

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Francis C. Lowell

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What impact did it create when Francis C. Lowell open a series of mills?

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A mass production of cotton

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How did immigrants react to the industrialization in the North and why?

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Immigrants were attached to the job opportunities there

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Why were there Irish immigrants arriving to the North to work in factories?

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The Irish were fleeing from a potato famine

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Why were there German immigrants arriving to the North to work in factories?

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German migrated as a result of political instability

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Hostility towards immigrants

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Nativism

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What did the South relied heavily on?

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Agriculture and the growing of cash crops

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What was in high demand with the North turning to textile mills?

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Cotton was in high demand

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Who invented the Cotton Gin?

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Eli Whitney

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18
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Cotton production boomed so plantation owners began to purchase more what?

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Slaves

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Term used by Southerners before the Civil War to indicate the economic dominance of the Southern cotton industry, and that the North needed the South’s cotton.

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“Cotton is King!”

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What was the most profitable cash crop in America during the antebellum period?

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Cotton

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How did the cotton gin affect the production of textile mills AND the effects on slaves?

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Cotton gin increased production rate and plantation owners purchased more slaves

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The belief that national interests and unity outweigh regional or state interests

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Nationalism

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WHO’s goal was to unite the different regions of the country and create a stable economy that would make the nation self-sufficient.

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Henry Clay

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What are the Three Parts of the American Plan?

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  • Develop Transportation Systems (Erie Canal)
  • Establish a Protective Tariff
  • Create a National Bank
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What two court cases supported Nationalism?

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  • Gibbons v. Ogden
  • McCulloch v. Maryland
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26
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Confirmed Congress has authority over interstate commerce

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Gibbons v. Ogden

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27
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Confirmed that the national government has supremacy over state governments

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McCulloch v. Maryland

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What was established in the Conventions of 1818 and between what two countries?

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Established the 49th parallel as the border between the U.S. and Canada.

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29
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Florida is ceded to U.S. from Spain

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Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819

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30
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Jefferson appoints who to explore the new territory & possibly find a water route to the Pacific Ocean?

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Lewis and Clark

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Who served as an interpreter & guide for part of Lewis and Clark’s journey?

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Sacagawea

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32
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President Monroe warned the European nations that any attempt to reestablish those colonial claims would be seen as a threat to our peace and safety

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The Monroe Doctrine

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During Monroe’s Presidency, Napoleon was overthrown… many European monarchs looked to re-establish what?

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European monarchs looked to re-establish control over their Latin-American colonies which scared the United States.

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34
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What were problems of the Monroe Doctrine?

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  • Most Europeans ignored the doctrine
  • American military power was very limited in the early 19th century
35
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Why was the Monroe Doctrine successful?

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Britain supported the Monroe Doctrine and would back America militarily in enforcing the Monroe Doctrine

36
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Why did Britain help America with the Monroe Doctrine?

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  • Great Britain wanted to protect its lucrative trade… therefore, Great Britain provided major naval support to help enforce the Monroe Doctrine
37
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What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

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Missouri applied as a slave state which would effect the balance of free and slave states.

38
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The equal number of slave states and “free” states meant….

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an equal number of votes in the Senate (2 votes for each state).

39
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What was the great compromise for the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and who was it designed by?

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  • Maine would become a state and be a Free -state.
  • Missouri would become a state and allow slavery.
  • It was designed by Henry Clay.
40
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What is the 36 degree north parallel?

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It would serve as a dividing line between slave and free states. All future states created North of that line would be free, South of that line would be slave.

41
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The belief that the wealthy elite should not dominate politics

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Jacksonian Democracy

42
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What did the 1828 election allow?

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Most states allowed white males who did not own land to vote

43
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What did Jackson characterized himself as?

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the “common man”

44
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Who was the first president to use the Spoils System?

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Andrew Jackson

45
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The practice of giving government jobs to loyal supporters, even if they had no qualifications for the position.

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Spoils System

46
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Who supported the Second National Bank?

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The North, South, and West all supported the strengthening of the National Bank.

47
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Who did not support the National Bank?

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President Jackson did not support this action.

48
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In 1830, Congress passed what Act?

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the Indian Removal Act to provide funds, negotiate treaties, and move Indians west.

49
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What court case related to the Indian Removal Act?

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Worcester v. Georgia

50
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Was there resistance due to the Indian Removal Act? If so, give an example

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Yes, some tribes, such as the Seminoles (Florida), fought militarily and lost.

51
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What did the Supreme Court (Chief Justice John Marshall) rule for the Worcester v Georgia case?

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That Native Americans were sovereign in their own territory and that states such as Georgia had no jurisdiction there.

52
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What were President Jackson opinions and what did he say on the Supreme Court rule for the Worcester v. Georgia case?

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He refused to abide by the Court’s decision and famously said, “John Marshall had made his decision, now let him enforce it.”

53
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The 800 mile trip was made mostly on foot during the winter and resulted in the deaths of a quarter of their tribe.

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Trail of Tears

54
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What were regional issues in the North?

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  • Wanted high tariffs to protect domestic industry.
  • Were against the expansion of slavery
55
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What were regional issues in the South?

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  • Were against a high tariff
  • Wanted slavery to expand into the new western territories and states.
56
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What were regional issues in the West?

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  • Wanted land prices to stay cheap
  • Wanted internal improvements
57
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What are the events due to?
- In 1828, Congress passed a tariff to keep out British imports and help Northern industries.
- South Carolina used the states’ rights argument (based on the 10th Amendment) to declare the tariff “null and void”
- Some in SC even considered seceding (withdrawing) from the Union (United States).

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Nullification Crisis

58
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A state’s rights come before the nation’s rights.

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The States’ Rights Theory

59
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What occurred before the Civil War?

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The antebellum period

60
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A time when religion came back to the forefront, and people were encouraged to become socially active and impact society through good works.

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The antebellum period

61
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What reform movement is this?
- prohibit the drinking of alcohol,
- Many women got their start in activism

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Temperance Movement

62
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Who believed in having public compulsory education?

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Horace Mann

63
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Who believed many prisoners suffered from mental illness and sought to get mental hospitals established to help such prisoners?

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Dorothea Dix

64
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What was the goal of the Abolitionist Movement?

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To have slavery abolished in America.

65
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The abolitionist movement first developed among WHO?

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Quakers (believed everyone had inner light)

66
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  • Was a religious revival movement in the early 1800s.
  • It was national in scope and contributed to the development of reform movements that further divided the nation.
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The Great Awakening

67
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Abolitionists included African Americans named?

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  • Nat Turner
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Harriet Tubman
68
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Some abolitionists were white named?

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  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • Grimke Sisters
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • John Brown
69
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Who wrote a newspaper called The Liberator?

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William Lloyd Garrison

70
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Who wrote Uncles Tom’s Cabin?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

71
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What is a major action during the abolitionist movement?

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Led rebellions

72
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Who led a rebellion….
- in 1831 with 80 followers
- 60 whites were killed before the rebellion ended.
- In retaliation, almost 200 blacks, most with no connection to the rebellion, were killed.

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Nat Turner

73
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Why Southerners argued that slavery good?

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They argued that it was a “positive good” because slaves were better off than industrial workers in the North.

74
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The culture and customs of the day required married women to limit their duties to housework and child care

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Cult of Domesticity

75
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What were women’s rights in the mid-1800s?

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Women had few legal rights: couldn’t vote, sit on juries, or even have guardianship of their own children

76
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Sarah and Angelina Grimke

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Women Abolitionists
- Middle-class white women were inspired by religion (Second Great Awakening) and joined reform movements.

77
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In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott held a women’s rights conference called the….?

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Seneca Falls Convention.

78
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men AND women are created equal.”

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Declaration of Sentiments

79
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The belief that Americans had God-Given right to all the land in North America

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Manifest Destiny

80
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What was claimed by the United States and Great Britain that was a joint occupation rights until a treaty was negotiated in the 1840s?

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Oregon Country

81
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How did Westward movement impact enslaved African Americans?

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Slave owners took only part of their human property with them on the trek west and left the rest of a slave family behind.

82
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WHO formed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in NY?

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Joseph Smith

83
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Why was Joseph Smith followers getting attacked as they settle in Illinois?

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Their belief in polygamy (multiple wives).

84
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WHO was Smith’s successor, led the Mormons west to escape religious persecution?

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Brigham Young

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