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American Imperialism
Anti v Pro Slavery Arguments
Political Crisis of 1850s
The Civil War
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Amerigo Vespucci
What is the namesake of the American continents and/or the United States of America?
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1. Purchase 2. "Natural Expansion" 3. Wars of "National Liberation"
What are the ways in which the United States expanded?
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Financial reasons - too expensive Social reasons - too dangerous
What are reasons the South did not simply free its slaves?
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American nationalism
What is the reason the North would not let the South peacefully secede from the Union?
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South Carolina
What is the first state to secede from the Union?
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George Whitfield Jonathan Edwards
What are Evangelistic Revivalistic Protestant field preachers?
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Best defined by the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining indirect control over the political and economic life of other areas.
What is imperialism?
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• Economically less divergent o Greater variety of professions in North • Population more rural • Wealth more concentrated • Cultural attainments negligible • Political democracy less complete • Sense of pessimism prevailed • SLAVERY • Conscious sense of being an embattled minority
What are differences between North and South?
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Missouri Kentucky Maryland Deleware
What are slave states that never seceded from the Union?
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No strategic value Great symbolic value
What is Fort Sumter?
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Alexander Hamilton favored this, the idea that the government should be ruled by a powerful few rather than the many.
What is elitism?
300
Secure Rio Grande as border Ended war Obtained NM and CA Agreed to pay Mexico $15 mil Assume all claims of US citizens against Mexico Newly acquired territory including Texas was 40% larger than LA Purchase  Most Americans approved of the war against Mexico… but not all, especially not the Whigs, who opposed “Mr. Polk’s War”  Triumph of Manifest Destiny  Opened door to problems of slavery in new territories
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
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• Obviously not going to go away on its own • Abolitionists demanded immediate end • Nat Turner’s revolt scared South
What are the mounting pressures to address the issue of slavery? (1830s)
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• Maine admitted as a free state • Missouri admitted as a slave state • Slavery excluded North of 36’30”
What is the Missouri Compromise?
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Amend Constitution to preserve and protect slavery in South
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
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The first permanent European settlement in North America.
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
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American Sense of Mission Lebensraum "White Man's Burden" Geographical Predestination
What is rationale for expansion?
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• Took legislative action • Abridging freedom of press and speech • Putting more restrictions on slave owners, slaves, and free blacks • Some states made it illegal to make blacks literate • Some couldn’t stay in hotels • Jailed for even considering staging a revolt • Made conscious effort to close Southern mind to all thoughts of emancipation
What are ways the South commended, defended, or protected slavery?
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• Forced slavery out in the open as a political issue • Made it impossible to avoid the issue o Acquisition of new territory required a decision
What is the Mexican War?
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620,000
What is the number of casualties during the Civil War?
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1. Common descent 2. Common language 3. Common customs and traditions 4. Common religion 5. Common territory 6. Shared feeling of threat or oppression by common enemy 7. A living and active corporate will to be a nation
What are factors conducive to nationalism?
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A clear sign that American expansionism was really American imperialism
What is Indian Removal?
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o Their free speech o Their free press o The free circulation of ideas
What are ways in which the South closed its mind on slavery?
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o For the North: • California came in as a free state • Slave trade (but not slavery) abolished in DC o For the South: • Rest of territory acquired from Mexico (ex. CA) opened to slavery on basis of popular sovereignty • New, tougher Fugitive Slave Act enacted
What is the Compromise of 1850?
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• Increase in patriotism certainly in victorious North, if not in the vanquished South • Sped up partial assimilation of immigrants into Northern Society, and in general, heightened the spirit of American nationalism in the North • Certain political theories and legal theories were affected by the war, especially the political theory of secession • Broadened and strengthened the powers of the central government • Settles issue of slavery • Presidency became stronger, thanks in large measure to the actions taken by President Lincoln
What are the changes the Civil War caused?