Unit 7 Test Flashcards
South did _____ ______ slavery
not need
When were the great comprimises
1820, 1850, 1854
who decided the rights of citizens
states
northwest ordinances
process in which territories will be free and slave
King cotton
boom of slavery, slavery seen as a necessary evil
missouri compromise
Henry Clay drafted a comprise
that made missouri come in as slave and Maine as free. Congress decreed that all future states were to be determined slave or free based on above or below line. Abolitionists only ones that didn’t want compromise. Start of abolitionist movement
Keep ties in senate
Manifest destiny
the concept of American exceptionalism, that is, the belief that America occupies a special place among the countries of the world
extremely racist
1845 polk ________ ______. What is the significance
becomes president
oversaw the largest territorial expansion in American history
railroads
connection, speed, mostly in the north
popular sovereignty
the idea that the government’s power comes from the people, and that the people have the right to create and change their government.
dred scott case
supreme court
only states determine slavery
slaves= property, cannot be citizens
Free soiler
new states= free
opposing the extension of slavery into U.S. territories and the admission of slave states into the Union prior to the Civil War
Moses Austin
settled tejas
Stephen F. Austin
moses’ son (inherits everything)
proposes the exempt texans from anti-slavery laws, improve mail service and to seperate texas to Santa Anna -> results in imprisonment
Andrew Jacksons belief in regards to indians
indians should be removed to the west
Mexico established rules for colonies and taxes
settlers didn’t want to adopt mexican nationalism
had slaves (illegal in mexico)
Mexico ______ immigration from U.S. + stricter rules
bans
why were the indians removed
the states with indians in them wanted their expansive land for their own profit for crops and cotton
Indian removal would supposedly result in
“an end to all possible danger of collision between authorities of the general and the state gov. on account of the indians”
those in favor of removal believed that the indians could be happier and “cast off their savage ways when they moved”
increase in wealth, population, power
manifest destiny
walt whitman
as we expand happiness grows
scientific rascism
races are biologically different
what was so important about manifest destiny
it was preordained by god
phrenology
weaponized, sand (white skulls heavier)
polk
wished to avoid conflict with britain
invasion of mexico (17 months war)
