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APUSH Unit 5 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Results of John Tyler's veto of a new Bank of the U.S. | - He thought that it was unconstitutional and a threat to the states individual rights - was formally expelled from the whig party and they tried to impeach him |
| Cause of the Aroostook War | English wanted a shorter path across Maine - Compromised and gave them that portion and we got the top of Minnesota |
| Reasons why British wanted an alliance with Texas | - Cheaper Cotton - Weaken Union - Some wanted to make sure that no slavery would happen there |
| Arguments against annexing Texas | - It will spread slavery further west - Drive states closer to civil war - Mexico did not want the US to become its neighbor which would lead to war |
| Primary group responsible for strengthening American ties to Oregon | American Missionaries |
| Why Americans wanted Oregon | - Manifest Destiny - Keep British out - Rich farm land |
| Boundaries of disputed area in Oregon | 54 40 |
| Manifest Destiny | - Americans were divinely ordained that we need to settle the entire continent of North America - White Mans Burden |
| How did Polk want to gain control of California? | Offered to buy it |
| All the reasons we went to war with Mexico | - American blood on American soil - Unpaid Debt |
| Location of "American blood on American soil" | North of Rio Grande |
| Stephen Kearny Battle | Santa Fe |
| Zachary Taylor Battle | Buena Vista |
| Winfield Scott Battle | Mexico City |
| John C. Fremont Battle | California |
| Terms of the treaty of Guadalupe-Hildalgo | - America got Texas & area yielding to Oregon - U.S. pays $15 million - End of Mexican American war |
| Delcaration of Wilmont Proviso | - No slavery in Mexican cession |
| Results of the slavery debate in Mexican-ceded lands | - Threatened to disrupt the ranks of both Whigs & Democrats - Split national politics along North and South sectional lines |
| Platform of Free Soil Party | - Supported Wilmont Proviso - Against slavery in New Lands - Homesteads |
| Popular Sovereignty | People in territories can vote on slavery in their territory - Government based on consent of people |
| Who participated in the Gold Rush? | - Desperate people - Outlaws |
| Why free soilers condemned slavery | - Not because they were slaving blacks, but because they were ruining the chances for po white trash to have jobs |
| Economy in the South in 1850 | Plantation economy |
| Harriet Tubman | - Underground Railroad - "Moses" |
| How most slaves gained freedom in 1850 | - Self-purchase - Voluntary emancipation |
| John C. Calhoun's plan to protect slavery in the South | - 2 presidents (one from the North and South) |
| Provisions of 1850 compromise | - CA would be admitted as a free state - Utah and NM would decieve the slavery issue for themselves (popular sovereignty) - Ban the buying of slaves in Washington D.C. - Stronger fugitive slave law - $10 million to Texas |
| Cause for Personal Liberty Laws | - Response to Fugitive Slave Law - They will not return |
| Provisions of Fugitive Slave Law | - Made it legal to arrest runaway slaves - Slaves could be returned to their owners - A person who helped runaway slaves faced crimes & jail time - Texas gets $10 million (gave up some land for NM) |
| Matthew Perry | Commodore that opened up Japan for trade |
| Main territory eyed under manifest destiny | Cuba |
| Ostend Manifesto | - US offers $20 million for Cuba - If Spain didn't accept, we would go to war - They wanted to split Cuba into slave states |
| Main reason for transcontinental railroad was needed | - Keep union together - Link CA to the North |
| Why create a southern route for transcontinental railroad | - Where ever there was a railroad there was economic benefits (South needed benefits) - Easier to build in the South |
| Stephen Douglas's plan for slavery in Kansas- Nebraska | - Let popular sovereignty decide on slavery - Scared North because that meant that there could be slavery |
| Purpose for Uncle Toms Cabin | - Let people know of the evil of the South and the slavery |
| Results of Uncle Toms Cabin for Northerners | - No help in returning slaves no matter what the law said |
| Reactions to Uncle Toms Cabin overseas | - Sold Millions - Britain and France became antislavery |
| Main Argument in the Impending Crisis of the South | Po white trash were the ones who suffered the most from slavery |
| Proslavery events in bleeding Kansas | Lecomption resolution, boarder ruffians |
| Antislavery groups in bleeding Kansas | J-Hawks, John Brown |
| Breaking point in Kansas | Group of proslaverites shot up and burned a part of the free-soil town of lawrence. |
| Provisions of the Lecomption Constitutionn | - Protect owners of slaves in Kansas - Slavery, but no new slaves - Either way you voted there would be slavery - Antislavery refused to vote |
| Response by South after 1857 panic | - All good - Cocky - King Cotton |
| Response by North after 1857 panic | - Suffered - Higher tariff - Homesteads |
| Stephen Douglas's Freeport Doctrine | No matter how the supreme court ruled, slavery would stay down if the people voted it down |
| South Carolina's response to Lincolns election | Seceded |
| The first Confederate Capital | Montgomery |
| Reasons Buchanan refused to use force against seceding states | - No Northern support - US busy Indian fighting - Slim chance of reconciliation |
| Why Lincoln opposed Crittenden Compromise | It opposed his platform, because he was not going to extend slavery |
| Reasons secessionists supported leaving the union | - Republican party threatened slavery - They wanted slavery |
| Rulings of Supreme Court in Dred Scott Case | Your slaves can move with you to free states because they are your property. They will continue to be slaves |
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