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Frederick
Douglass
Mexican-American War
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Vocabulary/ names to remember
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How did Douglass learn to read?
His first owners wife helped him learn
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How long did the Mexican American war last?
From 1846 to 1848. Two years.
100
Violent Pro-Slavery activists who lived in Missouri. Crossed into Kansas to get slavery approved there. Feared living next to free blacks. Cause of the name Bleeding Kansas
What are Border Ruffians
100
Missouri,Kentucky, and Maryland.They were called that because they were states that haven't succeeded and they were on the North-South border.
What were some Border states and why we're they called that
100
"monarchs of Northern agriculture"
What are King Wheat and King Corn?
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Colonel Edward Lloyd
Who was Douglass' first owner?
200
What caused the Mexican-American War.
The Mexicans needed someone to settle the Texas land and Americans came into Texas with slavery, which mexico didn't approve. This led eventually to the Annexation of Texas in 1845 and the Mexican-American War.
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Connect the Lecompton Constitution to Bleeding Kansas
The Lecompton Constitution only allowed people to vote either with or without slavery which infuriated Free-Soilers and led to them boycotting the polls. This led to Kansas having a pro slavery constitution(at the time)
200
Cherokee,Creek,Choctaw, Chicksaw, Seminole
What were the 5 civilized tribes that sided with the South in the Civil War.
200
State banks in which Andrew Jackson placed money from the Bank of U.S
What are Pet Banks?
300
Relate Frederick Douglass to Abraham Lincoln
Douglas met with Lincoln and encouraged him to pay the black soldiers in the U.S army equally. Also the Emancipation proclamation.
300
Which parties (generally) supported and opposed the Mexican American War.
Most Whigs in North and South opposed it. Most Democrats supported it.
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Connect the Panic(financial crash) of 1857 to sectional tensions
The North was the hardest hit while the south, because of cotton, rode out the crisis. Also the same year the tariff of 1857 reduced duties to about 20% on dutiable goods. This tariff was responding to southern pressure, the North thought this tariff(pressured on by the south) was the reason for the panic
300
What did the North have that gained European support during the Civil War?
The North sent Europe food during the war. Wheat and Corn(of the North) beat King Cotton(of the south) because Europe needed food more than it needed cotton.
300
System in which party elites choose nominees for major offices
What is King Caucus?
400
When did F.D claim he was a man?
When he beat up/down the Slave Breaker.
400
What was former president's John Quincy Adams idea of the Mexican American War?(for or against and why?)
He thought it was primarily an effort to expand slavery. Since he is anti-slavery he was against the Mexican-American War.
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What was the impact "Uncle Tom's cabin" on the North."The book helped start the Civil war" is not an answer. 2 answers.
Was a catalyst of the refusal of the enforcement of the fugitive slave law. Some of the youths in 1850 who read the book went to fight in the civil war. Vicariously kept the governments of London and Paris from intervening on behalf of the South (feared they would not get support from their own people, who were inspired by "Uncle Tom's Cabin")
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What caused 4 more upper states to suceed and join the confederacy
The south Carolina assault on Fort Sumter.
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Constitution to be voted on in Kansas could only be voted with or without slavery, led to free-Soilers boycott of the polls.
What was the Lecompton Constitution?
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Relate Federick Douglass and The Grimke sisters to W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington.
Both Douglas and W.E.B Du Bois were the militant side of abolition while The Grimkes and Booker t. Washington were the assimilation and calm "change their hearts" abolitionists.
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What were the results of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Give at least 2 answers.
Forced Mexican cession of Alta California and New Mexico to the U.S for $15 million. U.S assumed $3.25 million of debt owed by the Mexican government to U.S citizens. Mexico also changed its national border to Rio Grande
500
Connect Lecompton Constitution to Bleeding Kansas
The Lecompton Constitution only allowed people to vote either with or without slavery which infuriated Free-Soilers and led to them boycotting the polls. This led to Kansas having a pro slavery constitution(at the time)
500
areas of Southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois who opposed an anti slavery war
What does the "Butternut Region" refer to?
500
Pro states rights, slavery limited gov., supporter of nullification. Had to do with toasts attempting to get Andrew Jackson for pro nullification.
Who was John Callhoun?