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Social studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Overarching goal of the antebellum war | To trace America’s growing division over slavery from the Missouri compromise to the election of Abraham Lincoln |
| How many sleeves were there in the south? | 1/3 of owen’s slave |
| How many owned 20 or more slaves? | 12% |
| How many supported slavery? | 80% |
| Slavery in the 19th century | American dream of the White South |
| What year was the Missouri compromise? | 1820 |
| Missouri compromise 1820 | Missouri applies for statehood |
| How many free states and slave states were in the Missouri compromise | 11 free states and 11 slave states |
| What was the goal of the South? | Maintain equal political power with north in the Senate to protect slavery |
| Was Missouri a slave state | Yes |
| Was Maine a slave state | No |
| Abolition | The immediate ending of slavery |
| Most decisive issue of the 19th century | Abolitionism |
| Gradualism | The belief that slavery should end gradually |
| Stage one of gradualism | End of slave trade |
| Stage two of gradualism | Face slavery out in north and upper south |
| Stage three of gradualism | And slavery in lower south |
| What did gradualism give? | It would give the south economy time to adjust |
| What did many people believe about ending slavery? | Many people believe believed ending slavery wouldn’t end racism |
| Abolitionsm | Go to end slavery immediately |
| How would abolitionism end slavery? | Some argued violence and rebellion |
| What did William Lloyd Garrison found? | Anti slavery, newspaper |
| What was slavery to Garrison? | A sin and slaveholders were criminals |
| 1831 | Slave uprising |
| Nat Turner rebellion | Victims include men, women, and children. It reinforced southern paranoia. |
| Turner | Captured an ex executed |
| What was the term coin in 1839? | Manifest destiny by Andrew O’Sullivan |
| Manifest | Making known something that is a fact |
| Destiny | What is meant to be? |
| Manifest destiny | A divine movement/God ordained |
| Where did Americans begin bringing slaves? | Texas |
| 1829 | Mexico outlaws slavery |
| 1830 | Prohibition on immigration from US |
| In the Texas war of independence, who becomes dictator | Santa Ana |
| March 1836 | Texas declares their independence |
| What happens to Jim Bowie and a small force | They are wiped out at the Alamo |
| Treaty of Velasco | Two fractions emerge, a new republic of Texas |
| Who expands to the pacific | Nationalist independence Texas throw out Native Americans |
| Who favored the second option of the Treaty of Velasco | Sam Houston, and most Texans |
| John Tyler | Makes Texas a US state in 1845 |
| President James Polk | Offers to buy California as well, but Mexico declines |
| April 1846 | US military occupies the disputed Rio Grande area |
| What does Mexico believe? | Rio Grande is part of their country |
| Zachary Taylor | Leads an army deep into Mexico before ordering him to stop |
| Winfield Scott | Leads another invasion force from Veracruz to Mexico City |
| Santa Ana | Decides to take out Taylor first |
| What year was the treaty of Guadalupe? | 1848 |