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Topics that ruin Thanksgiving: Politics
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This compromise includes California being admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act being enforced by the federal government, established popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War, ended the slave trade in DC.
The Compromise of 1850
100
Where the people decide through popular opinion/vote. During the 1840s-1860s, this policy was used to when the people settle a territory would decide if it will be a slave state or a free state
Popular Sovereignty
100
The idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
Manifest Destiny
100
A period of violence when settlers in the Kansas-Nebraska territory, especially in Kansas, started fighting with each other over the dispute of if the territories would be free or slave states.
Bleeding Kansas
100
This party became the party of Lincoln after his success in the Lincoln Douglas debates. It was a combination of free-soilers, whigs, Democrats and members from the American Party (Know-Nothings)
The Republican Party
200
An act that was proposed by Stephen Douglas in order to win Southern approval for his plan to build a transcontinental railroad through the central Untied States. The provisions where to divide the Nebraska Territory into 2 parts, the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory, and allow settlers in each territory to decide whether to allow slavery or not
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
200
A loose network of Northern free blacks and courageous ex-slaves, with the help of some white abolitionists, who helped escaped slaves reach freedom in the North or Canada
The Underground Railroad
200
For twenty years, the British and the United States agreed to jointly occupy this region. But in the mid-1840s this region became a political issue in the United States, with many expansionists willing to risk war to get all of the territory, including present-day British Columbia (54 40 or fight!). In 1846, Britain and the United States agreed to extend the 49th Parallel, forming the modern border between Canada and the United States. The settlers quickly applied for territorial status, which Congress granted in 1849. The territory was gradually split up, and in 1859, it—with its present borders—became the 33rd state.
Oregon Territory
200
In October 1859, this man led a small band of followers, including his 4 sons and some former slaves, in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in hopes of arming Virginia's slaves, who he expected to rise up in revolt.
John Brown
200
A legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional. The decision added fuel to the sectional controversy and pushed the country closer to civil war.
Dred Scott v Sanford (The Dred Scott Decision)
300
After the conclusion of this election, South Carolina would succeed from the Union over fear of Lincoln banning slavery.
The Election of 1860
300
The most influential book of its day, a novel about the conflict between an enslaved man named Tom and the brutal white slave owner Simon Legree. Its publication in 1852 moved a generation of Northerners as well as many Europeans to regard all slave owners as monstrously cruel and inhuman. Lincoln was quoted in saying to Harriet Beecher Stowe (the author) "so this is the little lady that started the (Civil) war."
Uncle Tom's Cabin
300
Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.
Homestead act of 1862
300
When Charles Sumner (an Abolitionist senator) verbally attacked the South, he provoked a physical assault that severely injured him. Where did this violence take place?
On the congressional floor
300
During the race to become Senator of Illinois ____ asked to have multiple debates with _____. Certain topics of these debates were slavery, how to deal with slavery, and where slavery should be allowed. Although the future President of the US (16th President) lost the senate race, he established himself as the Republican candidate in the 1860 election, scaring the south in the possibility of what would happen if he won.
Lincoln Douglas Debates
400
This compromise stopped northern attempts to forever prohibit slavery's expansion by admitting a slave state in exchange for legislation which prohibited slavery north of the 36°30′ parallel except for Missouri.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
400
Generally speaking, there are 3 major reasons that the Civil War broke out in 1861. What are these 3 reasons?
1. States rights
2. The Topic of Slavery
3. Regional Differences (Sectionalism)
400
1853 purchase of more land from Mexico for the purpose of building intercontinental railroad. The purchase included the area included in the image below.
The Gadsden Purchase
400
A Spanish mission converted into a fort, it was besieged by Mexican troops in 1836. The Texas garrison held out for thirteen days, but in the final battle, all of the Texans were killed by the larger Mexican force.
The Alamo
400
A nativist political party and movement in the United States in the mid-1850s. The party was officially known as the "Native American Party" prior to 1855 and thereafter, it was simply known as the "American Party".
The Know-Nothing Party
500
Technically beginning in ___ over disputes over the Texas border (Rio Grande vs. Nueces River), but it can be argued that the annexation of Texas was the beginning of diplomatic trouble with Mexico. This finally boiled over when the Mexican Army crossed the Rio Grande and captured the American army patrol on what the Americans thought was their land (ironically, the Mexicans thought that was their land). Also, it erupted because the U.S. wanted to buy California, but Mexico refused to give it to them. In the end, Mexico lost and U.S. gained the Mexican Cession, California, and established the border separating the two countries at the Rio Grande River. James K. Polk was president during this war.
Mexican American War 1846-1848
500
John C. Calhoun discussed that slavery was a "Positive Good" in response to many northerners attacking the institution in the years leading up to the American Civil War. What were his arguments?
1. Wage Slavery in the North is no different to the chattel slavery in the South
2. We are giving these inferior persons a job, roof over their head, food etc.
500
A group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The party looked at due to their choice to begin eating one another.
The Donner Party
500
Finish this quote: "I _____ (famous radical abolitionist) am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood."
John Brown
500
This political party formed in 1847 - 1848, it was dedicated to opposing slavery in newly acquired territories such as Oregon and ceded Mexican territory.
The Free soil Party