Potpourri
What is the purchase in 1803 involving President Jefferson that later led to the Corps of Discovery?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A society in which every man is equal is known as a….
What is a Democracy?
Missouri became a state, which disrupted the political balance between slave holding and non-slave holding states. This compromise would involve Missouri becoming slaveholding and Maine becoming a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Human beings exported from Africa to America held as a property of another person. These people had no rights.
What is an enslaved individual?
What caused the Civil War?
Westward expansion created debates over whether or not a newly acquitted territory should be slave holding or not. So Slave holding states wanted to secede from the United States.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
What was the main reason that Americans felt like they needed to expand mid 19th century?
God had given a sign to the American people that they needed to spread their ideals across the continent
California would become a free state according to this compromise, and Utah/New Mexico could be slave states based on choice
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Why was slavery a necessary evil?
Slaves were needed to labor in fields (crops like tobbaco and sugar needed to be harvested). That is why the slave trade could not be banned until 1808
What is the Confederate States of America?
A time where the economic, social, and political structures of the South were rebuilt. The South resisted change, so the government sent out troops.
The idea that America needed to expand in the 1840s to spread its democratic values was known as the…..
What is the “Manifest Destiny”?
The Compromise of 1850 banned the slave trade in which area?
What is Washington D.C.?
Abolitionists would aid slaves in trying to escape their masters, this was a very popular passage of freedom for slaves
What is the Underground Railroad (Harriet Tubman)?
This measure tried to free all slaves, but only freed the ones in the North because it could not outlaw slavery in the South due to them having their own government. This was known as the…
Emanicipation Proclomation
Why did people support the slave trade system?
Because even if people didn’t own slaves, many of the goods they bought were made by slaves (ex. Cotton t-shirts)
What was the downside to the Manifest Destiny? (There are 2 answers possible)
-Americans did not consider the effect their expansion would have on other cultures
OR….
-Americans thought Native Americans were “uncivilized” and that they could not live with American settlements, so they had to be relocated to smaller settlements
This act penalized citizens for helping slaves escape from masters and forced them to return runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Nat Turner murdered an entire white family. What was an impact of his rebellion?
Accept one of the following…
a) Stricter laws were created regarding the rights of slaves (were not allowed to learn to read or write)
OR…
b) Slaves were inspired to rebel against their masters
Which amendment outlawed slavery?
What is the 13th amendment?
Which amendment gave all people the right to vote?
What is the 15th amendment?
What was the significance behind the Mexican-American War?
Polk tried buying the area controlled by Mexicans, but the Mexicans would not let them buy it off them. So the Americans started a war to gain the land.
The significance is Americans pushed west through negotiations in the earlier 19th century, but now they were violent with expanding
Dred Scott’s master vowed for his freedom because he was in free states. What was the impact of the Dred Scott ruling?
Dred Scot ruling said slaves are not citizens and could not sue in court.
a) How much of a vote would a slave have?
b) By law, what should happen if a slave were to escape to the North?
a) 3/5 of a vote
b) They should be returned to their masters
This amendment set up something called due process (where the government cannot overstep its boundaries) and the government must make sure everyone is treated fairly. This is known as….
What is The 14th amendment?