Manifest Destiny
War, Expansion, and Slavery
The End of the Second Party System
Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph
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What is Manifest Destiny?
The belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified by God.
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Who were the conscience Whigs?
A faction of the Whig Party in the state of Massachusetts who are noted for their moral opposition to slavery.
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What were personal-liberty laws?
Laws passed by several U.S. states in the North to counter the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850.
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What was the Freeport Doctrine?
Stephen Douglas's doctrine that, in spite of the Dred Scott decision, slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local legislation.
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What was the result of Manifest Destiny?
The U.S. grew in size.
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What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed on December 30, 1853 by James Gadsden who was the American ambassador to Mexico at that time.
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Why was the Fugitive Act so controversial?
The act allowed a slave owner to seize an escaped slave, present the slave before a federal or local judge, and, upon proof of ownership, receive a certificate authorizing the slave to be retaken.Northerners saw the act as providing an excuse for the kidnapping of free blacks
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What was the main theme of the Lincoln v Douglas debates?
Slavery.
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Where did the native Americans go when the Americans had taken their land?
They were either pushed westward or put to live on reservations.
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What was the Wilmot Proviso designed to do?
Eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48).
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What is the Compromise of 1850 and what did it do?
Series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
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What did the fire-eaters support?
The fire-eaters supported pro-slavery Southern Democrat politicians who urged the separation of southern states into a new nation and sought to reopen the international slave trade, which had been illegal since 1808.
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What was Oregon Fever and why did people want to travel to Oregon Country?
Oregon Fever was migratory trend that began in the 1830s that went to the Pacific territories of California and Oregon. People wanted to travel to Oregon Country because the land was open and free.
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Who is James K. Polk and what did he do?
James K. Polk served as the 11th U.S. president from 1845 to 1849. During his tenure, America’s territory grew by more than one-third and extended across the continent for the first time.
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How did President Buchanan pursue a pro-slavery agenda? Give three examples.
Opposed the Dred Scott's appeal and said he was still a slave. Urged Congress to make Kansas a slave State. Resumed negotiations to buy Cuba.
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What did John Brown do in October 1859?
Abolitionist John Brown lead a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery.
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what were consequences on Native Americans created by Manifest Destiny?
Manifest destiny had serious consequences for Native Americans, since continental expansion implicitly meant the occupation and annexation of Native American land, sometimes to expand slavery.
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What was the term "Fifty-four forty or fight" used for?
It is a phrase that was commonly used by extremists in the controversy with Great Britain over the Oregon country.
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What was Squatter Sovereignty and what did it permit territories to do?
A controversial political doctrine that the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states.
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What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act and what was its outcome?
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The outcome of it was Kansas and Nebraska being admitted into the union.
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