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Jefferson
What evidence exists pointing to Jefferson's belief in abolition?
- 1.Whigs, early draft of declartation Jefferson condems the slave trade
- 2. Book "Notes on state of VA"- saying owning slaves condems a person-
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Jefferson
Why did Jefferson retreat from abolition after his return from Paris in the 1780s?
- -money- he needed slaves to help him be wealthy
- -the Book he wrote arrived in the US and created bad reputation for him..he never published again
- -SallyHemmings is Jefferson's sister in Law- Jefferson has children with her cuz he looks like old wife..he freed the children but never her
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Louisiana
Why did Spain give away Louisiana?
- Signing the Treaty of San Ildefonso (secret treaty)
- answer: they gave it away to create a "buffer zone" between them and the US
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Louisiana
What role does Louisiana play in Napoleon's plan?
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Louisiana
What events led Jefferson to attempt to buy New Orleans?
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Louisiana
What events led Napoleon to sell Louisiana?
- needs money-to go to war with BR
- loss of French Haiti- lost 90K troops
- sells Louisiana territory for $15M or 8.3 acres
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Louisiana
Identify the purposes of the Lewis and Clark expedition
with York Clarks slave that the natives never seen and also wanted to breed with him
- 1804-06
- 1.Jefferson wants to know if there is and all water route to the Pacific..waterfall stops them far up west
- 2. flora and fauna- different species that we havent seen before, from plants to animals..black bear
- 3. Jefferson wants maps that are correct
- 4. make contact with the natives, but natives have seen white people before due to the fur trappers
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Louisiana
Identify the purposes of the Zebulon Pike expedition
- up the mississippi river
- --spying on BR in Canada
- Pike peak-he was spying on the Spainsh in Texas looking at their military- got caught and sent back to the American side
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Louisiana
What circumstances led to Alexander Hamilton's death?
July 11 1804 they duel in NJ which it is legal to do so, he is shot and killed
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Louisiana
What plot was Aaron burr involved with concering the western territories? Why did the Plot fail?
seize New Orleans, LA, TX and making that into a new counrty, maybe also some of Northern Mexico
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Louisiana
How did Burr avoid conviction for treason?
- -none of the stories matched up- not guilty
- judges says: for treason you must: prove a conspiracy, prove overt action took place
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Louisiana
What precedent for future treason trails was set by this case?
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Louisiana
Treaty of San Ildefonso
- 1800- secret treaty
- spain gave LA territory to the French
- buffer zone between Spanish and US with French in middle
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Louisiana
General James Wilkinson
- spy for Spanish
- co-Conspirator with A. Burr
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Foreign Affairs
What were the events that inflamed anti-British feelings in the United States?
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Foreign Affairs
Identify the provisions of the Embargo Act of 1807
Jefferson stops all trade with Europe
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Foreign Affairs
Identify the provisions of the Nonintercourse Act of 1809
trade with everyone except Britian and France
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Foreign Affairs
Identify the provisions of the Macon's Bill Number 2
- open trade with everyone, also
- BR/FR offered a prize for the first country to recongize America's neutrality, US would then stop selling to the other country
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Foreign Affairs
What was Prophet's appeal to Indians in the old NY?
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Foreign Affairs
What final events led to war with Great Britain?
- Britian was giving guns to the natives to attack the Americans
- they continued to impress the American saliors also
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Foreign Affairs
Tecumseh
- Native brothers in the Great Lakes area
- create a pan-Indian Confederacy--all the natives living around to join together, keep your ways, fight the Americans that are showing up
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Foreign Affairs
Battle of Tippecanoe
1811 Tecumseh vs US-US wins
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War of 1812
What was Madison's battle plan and why did it fail?
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War of 1812
How did the war expose sectional differences?
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War of 1812
What was the British battle plan in 1814? What was the overall result were the British hoping for?
- attack East coast of US
- push south out of Canada
- Needs N.O. to effectively control
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War of 1812
What does the phrase "status quo ante bellum" mean?
everything goes back as it was before the war
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War of 1812
Battle of New Orleans
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War of 1812
Treaty of Ghent
Dec 14,1814 signed with BR, and putting everything back the way it was before the war "status quo ante bellum"
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Boundaries
What are the provisions of the Convention of 1818?
- Canada 49 parallel and west
- LA terrority
- solves the border issues
- joint settlement of Oregon Territory
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Boundaries
What are the provisions of the Rush-Bagot Agreement?
- 1819
- both US and BR agree to keep warships out of the Great Lakes (disarming the great lakes)
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Boundaries
Why did President Monroe send Andrew Jackson to Florida?
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Boundaries
What steps would be necessary for Spain to perform before the US would leave Florida?
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Boundaries
What are the provisions of the Adams-Onis Treaty?
- 1819
- Spain sells FL $5M
- Spain gives up claims to Oregon
- US gives up claims to Texas
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Transportation
Define "autarky"
- self sufficient nation
- -transportation/ infastructure
- -stable finance
- -manufacturing
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Transportation
What are the elements of the American System?
- -2nd National Bank they want it back
- -calls for a federal $ for internal improvents (roads, bridges, canals)
- -mild import tax to propect American manufactoring 5-10% tops (glass,paint, lead,)
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Transportation
How will the American system help the US become an autarky?
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Transportation
What were the problems with using rivers for transportation?
it was a one way trip...they were unable to go up stream without the steamboat
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Transportation
What was the economic impact of the steamboat and canals on trade?
- transportation drops 90%
- from Albany to N.O. transportation drops 80-90%
- creates more people to create more canals everywhere else
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Transportation
How do improvements in transportation change agriculture and influence the western market economy?
- pre-canal farmer has 7 diff crops
- post-canal farmer has now only one crop to sell for cash
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Transportation
How does this benifit eastern manufacturing?
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Transportation
What factors allow cotton to become the dominant crop in the South?
- demand by Britian
- rich fetile soil in the South"black belt"
- slaves
- cotton gin- deseeding the cotton quicker bringing down cost
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Transportation
Robert Fulton
- created the steamboat 1807
- was able to go against the current, N.O.-Ohio river-pittsburg
- 5 yrs go from 1 to100 working the corridor
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Transportation
Erie Canal
- 1817-1825
- created from Albany,NY to Buffalo, NY
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Politics
What were the provisions of the Missouri Compromise?
- 1820
- 36 30 no slaves north of it
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Politics
Why does the Republican Party begin to fall apart after the election of 1820?
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Politics
Who are the four candidates in the election of 1824 and which parts of the USA do they represent?
- Quincy Adams-new england
- William Crawford-wealthy south
- Henry Clay-upper west
- Andrew Jackson-lower west
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Jackson Presidency
Why does Jackson want to do away with the National bank? How does he justify this?
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Jackson Presidency
Define nullification, What crisis does it revolve around in 1832?
the idea that a state can refuse to instate federal law, if the state believes the law is a or goes against the states interest
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Jackson Presidency
What was the real issue in the nullification crisis and how that issue be protected by the power of nullification?
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Jackson Presidency
With regard to the Natives, what are the differences in the "remove vs reform" arguments?
- reform- teach the natives how to farm and be like the white people
- Removal- remove them further away
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Jackson Presidency
What are the ideas of Lewis Cass?
- natives cannot be reformed
- 1. linguisitc differences (capitalism, democracy)
- 2. perpetual hunter state that the natives were always in
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Jackson Presidency
Where, and over what, did the Indian crisis begin?
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Jackson Presidency
What is Jackson's reason for the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
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Jackson Presidency
What are the provisions of the Indian Removal Act and who is the act aimed at?
- the natives can stay but if they stay they have to follow under the laws of that state
- -if they didnt want to stay they would be transported over the mississippi river
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Jackson Presidency
Cherokee Nation vs Georgia
Indian territory is subject to federal law, not state law
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Jackson Presidency
Worcester vs Georgia
GA laws were unconstitional- 70K moved to other side of mississippi
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Jackson Presidency
Trail of Tears
- started with 16K natives and only 70% lived
- 1838
- they wasnt enough food, clothing, etc
- a worst time in transporting people to a new area
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The Pursuit of Perfection
What is "free will" theology? How did it lead to a belief called "perfectionism"?
- believed in pre-destination- before the world was made GOD knew who was going to heaven and Hell and you can't change it
- Salvation is chosen or rejected by the individual
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The Pursuit of Perfection
Why were the Shakers unsuccessful?
they didn't continue to create babies since they believed in celibacy,
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The Pursuit of Perfection
Who are the Shakers?
- celibacy- even if married
- they took in orphans to help build the colony
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The Pursuit of Perfection
Why did the South generally shy away from serious social reform?
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The Pursuit of Perfection
What is the chief feature to come out of the Second Great Awakening in the Northen states?
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The Pursuit of Perfection
What were the claims put forth by Joseph Smith in the Book of Mormon? What practice of the Mormons got them into so much trouble?
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The Pursuit of Perfection
What are the plans of the American Colonization Society?
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The Pursuit of Perfection
Can you define and give sufficient examples of "Moral Suasion"? Whose tool was it?
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The Pursuit of Perfection
What is the argument put forth in James Hammond's Mudsill Theory?
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The Pursuit of Perfection
What third political parties are created by the growing slavery crisis? Why are they important?
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The Pursuit of Perfection
Oneida Community
- -open marriage
- Lader Day St.-believe Jesus after his rescurection wanted to visit the natives
- Bible book of Mormon-translated by J.Smith
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The Pursuit of Perfection
William Llyod Garrison
- The liberator, founder of American Anti-Slavery Society 1833
- immediate emancipation
- reject colonization
- non-violent
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The Pursuit of Perfection
Frederick Douglass
- escaped from slavery twice
- wrote his autobiography
- slave owner wife may have taught him to read and write
- he was able to give clear testiment of being a slave
- had his own newspaper
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The Pursuit of Perfection
Nat Turner
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Manifest Destiny
What is "Manifest Destiny"? What are its key themes?
- ordained by GOD
- virtue of the American way
- duty to spread the virtues to the rest of the world
- racism
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Manifest Destiny
What four countries claimed Oregon?
- US
- Great Britian
- Spain
- Russia
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Manifest Destiny
What were the strengths and weaknesses of their claims?
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Manifest Destiny
How is ownership of the Oregon Territory finally decided?
between US and BR argue the land after they have taken exploration, cession, contiguity, and settlement play into consideration
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Manifest Destiny
What part of Texas was claimed by both Texas and Mexico after Texas won its independence?
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Manifest Destiny
What incident does President James Polk use as an excuse to declare war on Mexico?
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Manifest Destiny
What are the provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
- sets Rio Grande as border b/w US and MX
- CA and the southwest is lost
- US pays 15M
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Manifest Destiny
How does the North view the war?
Northerners viewed as a slavery things, use the land for more slavery
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Manifest Destiny
What are the provisions of the Wilmot Proviso?
none of the land taken from MX couldnt have slavery
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Manifest Destiny
What influence did exploration, cession, contiguity, and settlement play in settling land disputes?
- E-the times each can to area
- con-the terriorty they had claimed land ajacent to your territory
- c- Adam Onis-Spain
- sp-amount of land they owned 1845 US-60K, GBR-10K,
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North and South
In the South, why was there so little investment in manufacturing?
their is little investment in it because in the South your wealth was measured by land and slaves
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North and South
What does a person need to be classified as a "planter"?
they have to own at least 20 slaves
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North and South
What are the levels and characteristics of the South's social system?
- Planters -owned 20 slaves-4% of the pop.
- small slaveholders- owned less than 20 slaves-21% of the pop.
- small farmers- maybe 1 slave
- poor whites
- free blacks
- slaves
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North and South
For what reasons did those on the low end of the social system fail to rise against the slaveowners?
- they still wanted to be planters themselves hopefully
- old fashioned racism
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North and South
What were the North's advantages in transportation and in manufacturing?
they had; railroads, canals, harbors,
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North and South
What was the legal status of slaves?
chattle- a thing that is owned by a person
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North and South
What were the dangers of being a free black in the South?
-whites would claim free slaves as their own slave without making sure
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American and the Monroe Doctrine
Why did Britain part ways with the Holy Alliance?
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American and the Monroe Doctrine
What was Britain's concern abour trade with South America?
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American and the Monroe Doctrine
What is "Greek fever"?
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