Manifest Destiny
What is the meaning of Manifest Destiny
The idea that the nation was meant to spread to the pacific
What was the first Compromise that made an effort to prevent a Civil War? What did it do? Was it fair?
The 3/5 Compromise:
Said that 3/5 of slave population would count towards the total population so each state would have equal representation in congress
Not fair
Who did the Constitutional Union party nominate? What did they support?
nominated Bell
Wanted the Union to stay together
How did Northern Economy benefit from slavery?
Factories in the north made products from the agricultural products in the south. The agriculture was harvested by slaves.
What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo accomplish? Why was it made? (hint: why would Mexico agree to it)
Mexico gave 500,000 square miles of territory to the US, Mexico accepts Rio Grande as their border, US gives Mexico $15 million in return
What was the Crittenden's Compromise? Why was it made? What did it accomplish?
It was the last effort to keep the union together
Reinstated Missouri Compromise Line
Accomplished nothing, the nation still had a Civil War
Who did the Southern Democrats Nominate? What did they support?
Nominated Breckenridge
wanted the south to secede from the union
What was the Dredd Scott Court Case? Why was it important?
Scott was a slave that got moved to a free state then back to a slave state. He sued his owner arguing that he should be a free man now that he had gone to a free state ("once free, always free"). But the ruling was that Scott had no rights to sue since black people were not citizens. Then, the Missouri compromise was ruled unconstitutional and the north realized that the fed gov could not ban slavery in fed states. This was also the first time that it was acknowledged that blacks were not citizens.
How did Mexico respond to Texas revolting?
They closed the gates to immigration
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? What circumstance made it necessary?
Made because Kansas and Nebraska wanted to become states, and South demanded Missouri Compromise line be repealed because they did not want Kansas and Nebraska to become free states
So Missouri compromise was repealed, Kansas and Nebraska would decide if they were free or slave through popular sovereignty
Who did the Northern Democrats nominate? What did they support?
Nominated Douglas
supported popular sovereignty
What is Popular Sovereignty?
the belief that the people of the region should determine for themselves the nature of their government
What are some of the conditions that Mexico had for Texas?
no guns, no worshiping God, specific rule for schools)
What was the Compromise of 1850? What circumstance made it necessary?
Made because California wanted to be a free state and this would upset the balance of free ans slave.
California became free state, Mexican secession divided into slave states, slave trade ended in DC, Fugitive slave law was enacted
Who did the Republicans nominate? What did the Republicans support?
Nominee: Lincoln
Believed in Missouri Compromise line, not necessarily against slavery
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
It REQUIRED northerners to actively track down escaped slaves and bring them back to their owners. Anyone who was found helping a slave in any way would be arrested
What did Americans think stood in the way of Manifest Destiny?
Mexico
What was the Missouri Compromise? What circumstance made it necessary? What compromise repealed it?
Made to keep the balance of free and slave states.
Missouri Compromise line was BELLOW Missouri Main would be free and Missouri would be slave, required all slave states to be bellow misouri compromise line and free states would be above, repealed by kansas-nebraska act
Why did the Democratic party split?
Some supported slavery and wanted to secede, some were anti-slavery and wanted to stay in the union
They two halves could not agree with each other and split
BLEEDING KANSAS
what happened? why?
It was decided that whether a new state would be free or slave would be determined through popular sovereignty. Northerners and Southerners were killing each other to have the majority