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LCCC unit 4 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Economic Importance of Cotton | Soaring cotton prices after the war of 1812 propelled the first surge of migration to the old southwest. Prices plunged in the Panic of 1819 |
| Manifest Destiny | The idea that whites had the divine right, from God, to expand America westward (sea to sea); also expanding slavery with them. |
| Political Solution for slavery in new territories | Compromise of 1850: California free state, New Mexico and Utah citizens decided on the issue themselves. |
| Rise of Nativism | Nativism grew rapidly in reaction to influx of Irish, German, and Roman Catholic immigrants as they were seen as a threat to the nation's Democratic traditions. Nativists believed Catholics owed their alligence to the pope, so they would vote as he said. |
| Know Nothing Party | Anti-immigration demo. party began as a secret organization in July 1850; when asked about the party, members said "I know nothing"; strongest in the South, most members formally Whigs. Wanted to avoid the slavery issue: believed it destroy the Union. |
| Republican Party | Anti-slavery conscience Whigs and Democrats disgusted with Pierce administration's Kansas Party. Advocated strong state and federal governments to promote economic and social reform. |
| First presidential candidate | John C. Fremont |
| Dread Scott decision | Supreme Court ruling dismissed by Roger B. Taney brought by Dread Scott, slave suing for his freedom on that his residence in a free state/territory with his master, slaves could not be U.S. Citizens+Congress had no jurisdiction on slavery in territories |
| Secession Crisis | States were seceding to the confederacy, started right before Lincoln took office. First state to secede: South Carolina |
| President Pierce's attempt to distract from slavery issue | used "popular sovereignty" to let settlers decide on slavery in territories, aiming to appease both sides but instead igniting violent conflict ("Bleeding Kansas") and deepening national divides |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act- Response | Know Nothing and Republican parties formed. People were not happy |
| Formation of West Virginia | Virginia went with the Confederacy, some counties in the western part of the state established themselves as the pro-union state of West Virginia |
| Ulysses S. Grant | General for the Union, later president of the United States, Anaconda plan (in the west) |
| Southern whites views on African Americans-Post Civil War | Whites felt they were above African Americans. Whites said African Americans were adversaries |
| Freedmen's Bureau early success | 1865, Congress created the Freedmen's Bureau to help former slaves; provided emergency food, housing + medical supplies, created new schools |
| Andrew Johnson | First President to be impeached, state's rights democrat, white supremacist, opposed federal black civil rights |
| Radical Republican's goals | rejected Lincoln's plan because it was too lenient on ex-Confederates. Favored a plan that protected blacks, required 50% of state citizens to swear a loyalty oath, and banned ex-Confederate leaders from serving in gov |
| Redeemers' self-conception (how they saw themselves) | saviors of the South. They believed they were "redeeming" their states by restoring white supremacy, conservative fiscal policies, and Southern traditional values, all while undoing Black civil rights gains and limiting Black political power. |
| Supreme Court's impact on Reconstruction | Underminded Reconstruction by narrowly interpreting the 14+15 amendment. (Said that these amendments did not apply to blacks) Delayed reconstruction |
| James K. Polk | Democrat |
| Zachary Taylor | Whig |
| Millard Fillmore | Whig |
| Franklin Pierce | Democrat |
| James Buchanan | Democratic Republican |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican |
| Andrew Johnson | Democrat |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Republican |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Republican |
| James A. Garfield | Republican |
| Why did Reconstruction fail to secure long-lasting rights/freedoms for African Americans? | *Ignored by the South and abandoned. *It does not fail; we give up. *Federal solution to a state and local problem *White Supremacists had thee money and power to control the gov/voting |
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