Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" highlighted the revivalist ideology of this movement.
What is the First Great Awakening
Who is George Washington?
DAILY DOUBLE Name three of the five provisions of the Compromise of 1850, which Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Stephen A. Douglas pieced together over a strong of booze-filled nights in that year hoping to preserve the Union in the wake of the Mexican War.
-New Fugitive Slave Act -Admitted CA as a free state -Increased the size of NM at the expense of TX -Abolished the slave trade (though not slavery) in DC -Organized the UT and NM territories and left the slavery question to popular sovereignty in the territories
Women were reminded that they had to follow this gender normative ideology that promoted female labor in the home.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
This event had kicked the proverbial can of slavery down the proverbial road in 1820 allowing for slavery in one state in exchange for a non-slave state in the Northeast.
Missouri Compromise
A major catalyst for the Civil War, this 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that territories could not prohibit slavery until admitted as a state, that the 5th amendment prevent Congress from prohibiting slaveowners from taking their slave property to territories, and that African Americans (slave or free) could not be citizens and therefore could not sue in court.
What is "Dred Scott v. Sandford"?