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lack of sanitation
What was the primary cause of the epidemics that swept through early nineteenth-century American cities?
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They had faced constant discrimination within other social reform groups.
Why did female activists feel the need to call for a women’s rights convention in 1848?
100
Congress had no constitutional right to prohibit slavery in the territories.
What was the predominant Southern stance on the issue of slavery in the territories?
100
the Missouri Compromise was voided
What was one of the things Northerners found most upsetting about the Dred Scott decision?
100
it allowed Congress to "wash its hands" clean of the problem of slavery within the states newly admitted to the Union
What was the way in which the doctrine of popular sovereignty dealt with the issue of slavery?
200
They gave public speeches in front of audiences of men and women.
The reason why the Grimké sisters were so widely disparaged by many Americans?
200
John O'Sullivan:
Who was the person who coined the term "Manifest Destiny"?
200
God expected white Americans to expand across the continent and spread democratic ideals.
What is a statement that describes the doctrine of manifest destiny?
200
Blacks could not bring lawsuits in federal court.
What was the reason the Dred Scott case dismissed by the Supreme Court?
200
the dislocations caused by urbanization
What was one of the reasons for the rise of nativist sentiment in the 1840s?
300
It convinced evangelicals that people’s failings were a consequence of their environments rather than personal moral failures and thus people could be reformed.
How did an evangelical shift toward a belief in human goodness spark the growth of antebellum reform movements?
300
to prevent antislavery from emerging as a divisive national issue.
Why Congress passed a “gag rule” in the 1830s?
300
Slavery could not be allowed in the territories.
What was the Liberty Party’s stance toward slavery?
300
the Fugitive Slave Law
What Southerners viewed as their only real gain in the Compromise of 1850?
300
Western expansion and protection of slavery were no longer reconcilable aims.
What is the reason why the Kansas-Nebraska Act pushed the party system into crisis?
400
He demanded immediate emancipation.
What was new about William Lloyd Garrison’s approach to abolition?
400
the fact that Texas would have to be admitted as a slave state.
The reason why The Republic of Texas was not immediately annexed by the United States?
400
It prioritized sectional politics over party politics.
The reason why the Wilmot Proviso was so divisive?
400
After the Compromise became law, inhabitants of the former Mexican lands could vote to determine if it should become a slave state or a free state.
What was the role played by popular sovereignty in former Mexican territories in the Compromise of 1850?
400
Douglas would not support the creation of a federal slave code.
What is the chief reason Southerners did not support Stephen Douglas as a Democratic presidential candidate in the election of 1860?
500
DAILY DOUBLE! You may bet 500 pts or 1000 pts a reassessment of separate spheres ideology/the traditional gender divisions by sphere in American society; women began to assert themselves more politically
What was a consequence of the emergence of female social reformers during the antebellum period?
500
DAILY DOUBLE! You may bet 500 pts or 1000 pts in general they were not abolitionists, they were anti-black. They wanted neither enslaved blacks or free blacks living within their states
Surprisingly, what was the position or attitude of many within the Free-soil Party?
500
The land was perceived as lacking the properties necessary for farmland.
The Reason why the American government chose the region it did as Indian Territory?
500
The slave trade ended in the District of Columbia.
What was the compromise that was needed for the passage of a fugitive slave law?
500
California’s application for statehood
What is the event that reignited the national/federal debate over slavery in 1850 land ultimately leading to the Compromises of 1850?
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