Chapters 13-17
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| show | Clay was named secretary of state after throwing his support to Adams.
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| Which of the following was NOT among the factors that made John Quincy Adams's presidency a political failure? | show 🗑
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| Andrew Jackson's appeal to the common people arose partly because... | show 🗑
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| show | The growth of the spoils system as a basis for large political "machines"
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| What differences did the North and South have in the "Tariff of Abominations"? | show 🗑
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| Under the surface of the South's strong opposition to the "Tariff of Abominations" was... | show 🗑
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| Some southeastern Indian tribes like the Cherokees were notable for their... | show 🗑
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| show | Defied rulings of the US Supreme Court that favored the Cherokees.
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| show | A bold assertion of presidential power on behalf of western farmers and other debtors.
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| show | The lack of a stable banking system to finance the era of rapid industrialization.
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| show | Third-party campaigning, national conventions, and party platforms.
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| show | Texas petitioned to join the United States but was refused admission.
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| The Panic of 1837 and subsequent depression were caused by... | show 🗑
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| show | Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
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| show | It should have a strong role in both economic and moral issues.
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| show | Convention
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| show | Anti-Masonic Party
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| Contemptuous Jacksonian term for the alleged political deal by which Clay threw his support to Adams in exchange for a high cabinet office | show 🗑
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| Office to which President Adams appointed Henry Clay | show 🗑
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| show | Spoils System
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| show | Tariff of Abominations
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| Theory promoted by John C. Calhoun and other South Carolinians that said states had the right to disregard federal laws to which they objected | show 🗑
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| The "moneyed monster" that Clay tried to preserve and that Jackson killed with his veto in 1832 | show 🗑
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| show | Masons
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| Religious believers, originally attracted to the Anti-Masonic party and then to the Whigs, who sought to use political power for moral and religious reform | show 🗑
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| Two of the southeastern Indian peoples who were removed to Oklahoma | show 🗑
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| The sorrowful path along which thousands of southeastern Indians were removed to Oklahoma | show 🗑
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| The nation from which Texas won its independence in 1836 | show 🗑
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| Anti-Jackson political party that generally stood for national community and an activist government | show 🗑
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| show | Log cabin, hard cider
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| Cherokee leader who devised an alphabet for his people | show 🗑
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| Political party that generally stressed individual liberty, the rights of the common people, and hostility to privilege | show 🗑
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| Seminole leader whose warriors killed 1500 American soldiers in years of guerrilla warfare | show 🗑
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| Former Tennessee governor whose victory at San Jacinto in 1836 won Texas its independence | show 🗑
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| Mexican general and dictator whose large army failed to defeat the Texans | show 🗑
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| show | John C. Calhoun
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| Political party that favored a more activist government, high tariffs, internal improvements, and moral reforms | show 🗑
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| Original leader of American settlers in Texas who obtained a huge land grant from the Mexican government | show 🗑
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| A frontier hero, Tennessee Congressman, and teller of tall tales who died in the Texas War for Independence | show 🗑
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| "Old Tippecanoe," who was portrayed by Whig propagandists as a hard-drinking common man of the frontier | show 🗑
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| show | Henry Clay
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| show | Martin Van Buren
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| Talented but high-handed bank president who fought a bitter losing battle with the president of the United States | show 🗑
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| Aloof New England statesman whose elitism made him an unpopular leader in the new era of mass democracy | show 🗑
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| show | Black Hawk
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| What was the effect of the growth of American migration into northern Mexico? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of the demand of many whites to acquire Indian land in Georgia and other states? | show 🗑
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| show | Brought many evangelical Christians into politics and showed that others besides Jackson could stir up popular feelings
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| Cause: The failure of any candidate to win an electoral majority in the four-way election of 1824 | show 🗑
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| show | Effect: Aroused the bitter opposition of westerners and southerners, who were increasingly sectionalist
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| show | Effect: Provoked protests and threats of nullification from South Carolina
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| Cause: Andrew Jackson's "war" against Nicholas Biddle and his policies | show 🗑
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| show | Effect: Laid the foundation for the spoils system that fueled the new mass political parties
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| show | Effect: Caused widespread human suffering and virtually guaranteed Martin Van Buren's defeat in 1840
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| show | Women
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| As late as 1850, over one-half of the American population was under what age? | show 🗑
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| show | Fur-trapping
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| show | One of the things that defined and distinguished America as a new nation.
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| show | George Caitlin
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| The two major sources of European immigration to American in the 1840s and 1850s were... | show 🗑
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| show | Ireland
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| Semisecret Irish organization that became a benevolent society aiding Irish immigrants in America | show 🗑
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| Liberal German refugees who fled failed democratic revolutions and came to America | show 🗑
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| show | Nativists/Know-Nothing Party
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| The transformation of manufacturing that began in Britain about 1750 | show 🗑
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| Whitney's invention that enhanced cotton production and gave new life to black slavery | show 🗑
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| Principle that permitted individual investors to risk no more capital in a business venture than their own share of a corporation's stock | show 🗑
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| Morse's invention that provided instant communication across distance | show 🗑
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| show | Women/children
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| Working people's organizations, often considered illegal under early American law | show 🗑
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| McCormick's invention that vastly increased the productivity of the American grain farmer | show 🗑
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| show | National Road
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| show | Steamboat
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| show | Erie Canal
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| show | Clipper ships
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| show | Cyrus McCormick
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| New York governor who built the Erie Canal | show 🗑
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| Inventor of a machine that revolutionized the ready-made clothing industry | show 🗑
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| show | Know-Nothings
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| show | Cyrus Field
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| Immigrant mechanic who initiated American industrialization by setting up his cotton-spinning factory in 1791 | show 🗑
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| Painter turned inventor who developed the first reliable system for instant communication across distance | show 🗑
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| show | Robert Fulton
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| show | Molly Maguires
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| Yankee mechanical genius who revolutionized cotton production and created the system of interchangeable parts | show 🗑
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| show | Commonwealth v. Hunt
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| Cause: The open, rough-and-tumble society of the American West | show 🗑
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| show | Effect: Made the fast-growing United State the fourth most populous nation in the Western world
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| Cause: The poverty and Roman Catholic faith of most Irish immigrants | show 🗑
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| show | Effect: Transformed southern agriculture and gave new life to slavery
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| show | Effect: Enabled businesspeople to create more powerful and effective joint-stock capital ventures
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| Cause: The early efforts of labor unions to organize and strike | show 🗑
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| show | Encouraged western farmers to specialize in cash-crop agricultural production for eastern and European markets
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| show | Effect: Opened the Great Lakes states to rapid economic growth and suprred the development of major cities
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| Cause: The development of a strong east-west rail network | show 🗑
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| Cause: The replacement of household production by factory-made, store-bought goods | show 🗑
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| show | The revivalist movement called the Second Great Awakening
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| show | Methodists and Baptists
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| show | The popular preaching of evangelical revivalists both in the West and eastern cities
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| Evangelical preachers like Charles Grandison Finney linked personal religious conversion to... | show 🗑
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| The term "Burned-Over District" refers to.. | show 🗑
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| show | The split of Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians into separate northern and southern churches
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| show | Their cooperative economic practices that ran contrary to American economic individualism
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| The major promoter of an effective tax-supported system of public education for all American children was... | show 🗑
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| show | Better treatment of the mentally ill
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| One cause of women's subordination in nineteenth-century America was... | show 🗑
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| show | Equal rights, including the right to vote.
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| show | Communal economics and alternative sexual arrangements
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| Two leading female imaginative writers who added to New England's literary prominence were... | show 🗑
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| show | Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant
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| show | Inner truth and individual self-reliance
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| show | Deism
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| Religious revival that began on the frontier and swept eastward, stirring an evangelical spirit in many areas of American life | show 🗑
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| show | Methodists, Baptists
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| show | Mormons
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| show | Seneca Falls Convention
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| Commune established in Indiana by Scottish industrialist Robert Owen | show 🗑
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| show | Brook Farm
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| show | Monticello
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| show | Knickerbocker Group
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| The doctrine, promoted by American writer Henry David Thoreau in an essay of the same name, that later influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. | show 🗑
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| Walt Whitman's shocking collection of emotional poems | show 🗑
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| show | Transcendentalism
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| A disturbing New England masterpiece about adultery and guilt in the old Puritan era | show 🗑
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| The great but commercially unsuccessful novel about Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of a white whale | show 🗑
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| show | Little Women
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| show | Dorthea Dix
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| The "Mormon Moses" who led persecuted Latter-Day Saints to their promised land in Utah | show 🗑
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| Leading feminist who wrote the "Declaration of Sentiments" in 1848 and pushed for women's suffrage | show 🗑
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| Quaker women's rights advocate who also strongly supported the abolition of slavery | show 🗑
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| show | Emily Dickinson
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| show | Charles G. Finney
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| show | Robert Owen
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| Leader of a radical New York commune that practiced "complex marriage" and eugenic birth control | show 🗑
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| show | Mary Lyon
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| Novelist whose tales of family life helped economically support her own struggling transcendentalist family | show 🗑
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| show | James Fenimore Cooper
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| Second-rate poet and philosopher, but first-rate promoter of transcendentalist ideals and American culture | show 🗑
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| show | Walt Whitman
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| show | Edgar Allen Poe
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| New York writer whose romantic sea tales were more popular than his dark literary masterpiece | show 🗑
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| show | Effect: Inspired a widespread spirit of evangelical reform in many areas of American life
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| Cause: The Mormon practice of polygamy | show 🗑
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| Cause: Women abolitionists' anger at being ignored by male reformers | show 🗑
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| show | Effect: Aroused hostility and scorn in most of the males press and pulpit
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| show | Effect: Caused most utopian experiments to decline or collapse in a few years
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| show | Effect: Created the first lterature genuinely native to America
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| Cause: Henry David Thoreau's theory of "civil disobedience" | show 🗑
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| Cause: Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" | show 🗑
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| show | Effect: Made their works little understood in their lifetimes by generally optimistic Americans
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| show | Effect: Inspired writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller
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| show | Britain
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| The invention that transformed the southern cotton economy was... | show 🗑
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| show | Northern traders and European manufacturers
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| Among the economic consequences of the South's cotton economy was... | show 🗑
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| How many slaves did most southern slaveholders have? | show 🗑
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| show | They felt racially superior to blacks and hoped to be able to buy slaves
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| show | Appalachian mountain whites
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| show | False. They were treated just as badly and sometimes worse in the North
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| show | Natural reproduction
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| Most slaveowners treated their slaves as... | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| Most of the early abolitionists were motivated by... | show 🗑
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| show | Promoting antislavery political movements like the Free Soil and Republican parties
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| show | A positive good
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| By the 1850s, most northerners could be described as having what outlook on slavery? | show 🗑
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| Term for the South that emphasized its economic dependence on a single staple product | show 🗑
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| Prosouthern New England textile owners who were economically tied to the southern "lords of the lash" | show 🗑
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| British novelist whose romantic vision of a feudal society made him highly popular in the South | show 🗑
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| The poor, vulnerable group that was the object of prejudice in the North and despised as a "third race" in the South | show 🗑
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| show | American Slavery as It Is
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| show | Black Belt
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| show | American Colonization Society
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| show | Lane Rebels
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| show | "The Liberator"
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| show | American Anti-Slavery Society
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| show | Gag Resolution
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| show | Free Soil Party
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| Wealthy New York abolitionist merchant whose home was demolished by a mob in 1834 | show 🗑
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| Visionary black preacher whose bloody slave rebellion in 1831 tightened the reins of slavery in the South | show 🗑
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| Midwestern institution whose president expelled eighteen students for organizing a debate on slavery | show 🗑
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| show | Sojourner Truth
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| Leading radical abolitionist who burned the Constitution as a "covenant with death and an agreement with hell" | show 🗑
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| show | Harriet Beecher Stowe
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| show | Virginia legislature
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| show | Sir Walter Scott
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| show | Martin Delany
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| show | John Quincy Adams
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| Illinois editor whose death at the hands of a mob made him an abolitionist martyr | show 🗑
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| West African republic founded in 1822 by freed blacks from the United States | show 🗑
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| show | Frederick Douglass
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| show | David Walker
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| Leader of the "Lane Rebels" who wrote the powerful antislavery work American Slavery As It Is | show 🗑
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| Cause: Whitney's cotton gin and southern frontier expansionism | show 🗑
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| show | Effect: Created dangerous weaknesses beneath the surface prosperity of the southern cotton economy
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| Cause: Belief in white superiority and the hope of owning slaves | show 🗑
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| Cause: The selling of slaves at auctions | show 🗑
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| show | Effect: Caused slaves to work slowly, steal from their masters, and frequently run away
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| Cause: The religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening | show 🗑
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| Cause: Politically minded abolitionists like Frederick Douglass | show 🗑
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| show | Effect: Aroused deep fears of rebellion and ended rational discussion of slavery in the South
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| Cause: White southern defenses of slavery as a "positive good" | show 🗑
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| show | Effect: Made abolitionists personally unpopular but convinced many Northerners that slavery was a threat to American freedom
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| show | Banking and tariff policy
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| show | American involvement in Canadian rebellions and border disputes
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| What was the Aroostook War? | show 🗑
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| show | Establishing friendly relations with Britain and other European powers
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| True or false: Britain strongly supported an independent Texas because it was interested in eventually incorporating Texas into the British empire. | show 🗑
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| show | President Tyler's interpretation of the election of 1844 as a "mandate" to acquire Texas
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| "Manifest Destiny" represented the widespread American belief that... | show 🗑
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| show | The rapidly growing number of American settlers overwhelmed the small British population
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| Henry Clay lost the election of 1844 to James Polk because... | show 🗑
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| The final result of the British-American conflict over the Oregon country in 1844-1846 was... | show 🗑
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| The immediate cause of the Mexican War was... | show 🗑
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| The phrase "spot resolutions" refers to... | show 🗑
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| show | General Winfield Scott
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| show | American acquisition of about half of Mexico and payment of several million dollars in compensation
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| The major domestic consequence of the Mexican War was... | show 🗑
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| show | Canada
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| show | Maine
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| Nation that strongly backed independence for Texas, hoping to turn it into an economic asset and antislavery bastion | show 🗑
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| Antislavery Whigs who opposed both the Texas annexation and the Mexican War on moral grounds | show 🗑
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| Act of both houses of Congress by which Texas was annexed | show 🗑
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| show | 54 40'
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| show | Oregon Trail
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| The widespread American belief that God had ordained the US to occupy all the territory of North America | show 🗑
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| show | Liberty Party
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| Final compromise line that settled the Oregon boundary dispute in 1846 | show 🗑
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| Rich Mexican province that Polk tried to buy and Mexico refused to sell | show 🗑
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| show | Nueces River
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| Resolution offered by Congressman Abraham Lincoln demanding to know the precise location where Mexicans had allegedly shed American blood on "American" soil | show 🗑
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| Treaty ending Mexican War and granting vast territories to the US | show 🗑
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| Controversial amendment, which passed the House but not the Senate, stipulating the slavery should be forbidden in territory acquired from Mexico | show 🗑
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| Congressional author of the "spot resolutions" criticizing the Mexican War | show 🗑
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| show | Winfield Scott
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| show | Henry Clay
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| Long-winded American diplomat who negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | show 🗑
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| Whig leader and secretary who negotiated an end to Maine boundary dispute in 1842 | show 🗑
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| show | Rio Grande
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| Dashing explorer/adventurer who led the overthrow of Mexican rule in California after war broke out | show 🗑
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| Clash between Canadians and Americans over disputed timber country | show 🗑
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| show | Santa Anna
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| show | Texas
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| show | Zachary Taylor
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| show | David Wilmot
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| show | James K. Polk
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| Northwestern territory in dispute between Britain and US, subject of "Manifest Destiny" rhetoric in 1844 | show 🗑
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| Leader elected vice president on the Whig ticket who spent most of his presidency in bitter feuds with his fellow Whigs | show 🗑
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| Cause: Tyler's refusal to carry out his own Whig Party's policies | show 🗑
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| Cause: Strong American hostility to Britain | show 🗑
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| Cause: British support for the Texas Republic | show 🗑
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| show | Effect: Strengthened American claims to the Columbia River country and made Britain more willing to compromise
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| Cause: The upsurge of Manifest Destiny in the 1840s | show 🗑
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| show | Effect: Turned antislavey voters to the Liberty party and helped elect the expansionist Polk
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| Cause: Polk's frustration at Mexico's refusal to sell California | show 🗑
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| Cause: The overwhelming American military victory over Mexico | show 🗑
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| Cause: The rapid Senate ratification of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | show 🗑
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| Cause: The Wilmot Proviso | show 🗑
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