Jacksonian Democracy and Tocqueville
Which state were most Indians removed to during Jackson's program for Indian removal?
Oklahoma
Who was the leading abolitionist editor of The Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison
Which candidate was famous for his log cabin and hard cider campaign?
William Henry Harrison
What year was the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed and what did it implement? Why was it controversial?
1854, popular sovereignty on the slavery issue in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Controversial because it repeals the Missouri Compromise.
What year was Texas admitted into the union?
1845
What ended the Nullification Crisis?
Compromise of 1833
In an 1837 speech addressing the reception of abolition petitions, John Calhoun calls slavery...
a positive good.
Winner of each of the following elections:
1840
1844
1848
1852
1856
Harrison
Polk
Taylor
Pierce
Buchanan
What did the Dred Scott Decision argue?
Blacks are not citizens and slavery cannot be banned anywhere because it is protected by the constitution as property.
What were the Northern laws that responded to the fugitive slave act called?
Personal Liberty Laws
Who is Tocqueville's primary audience?
French Aristocracy
What do Henry Highland Garnet and John Brown agree on?
Resistance!
What are at least three policy points the Polk ran on?
Acquire Texas
Acquire California
Lower the tariff
Restore independent treasury
What were 6 terms of the Compromise of 1850?
North: California is free state, slave trade banned in DC, Texas gives up land claims in New Mexico
South: Slavery not outlawed in Mexican Cession, New fugitive slave law, Texas granted $10 million
What did the Wilmot Proviso propose?
To prohibit slavery in all the lands acquired from Mexico
What is the cartesian mindset, according to Tocqueville?
Primary reliance on individual reason
What is the significance of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Spread anti-slavery sentiment throughout the US.
What were the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
America acquires the Mexican Cession, and Mexico is paid $15 million.
Name all four candidates in the Election of 1860.
Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge, Bell
What did Daniel Webster argue during the Compromise of 1850?
He supported the compromise, and although he is anti-slavery, the lands acquired by Mexico are not goof for slavery anyway.
I. Particular, accidental situation
II. The Laws
III. The Mores
What do Augustus Washington and Frederick Douglass disagree on?
Whether the future of the slaves is in America or Africa.
In the Mexican American War, name the general who won in California, the general who won in Texas, and the general who won in Mexico City.
John Fremont
Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott
Name all 5 contenders for the Republican nomination in 1860.
Seward, Chase, Bates, Cameron, and Lincoln
Name the location of the place where Lincoln gave a speech in New York leading up to the election of 1860.
Cooper Union