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| What distinguished the Upper South from the Lower South? |
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| What was the key difference between the Upper and Lower South? |
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| The suitability of the Lower South for growing cotton with gangs of slave laborers (soil was more suitable for cotton and other commercial crops in the Lower South) |
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| Where was the soil most depleted in the Upper South? |
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| Where tobacco had been cultivated extensively |
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| What caused the Upper South to become less tied to plantation agriculture and slave labor by midcentury? |
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| Economy ws more balanced among agriculture, manufacturing and trade |
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| What was a state's slave code? |
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| Laws defining the status of slaves and the rights of masters |
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| A state's slave code gave what to slave owners? |
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| According to most slave codes, what actions by a slave were punishible by death? |
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| Striking a master, committing arson, or conspiring to rebel |
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| Which religion gained the most slave converts? |
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| What were the largest slave crops in the American South in 1860? |
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| To cultivate their crops, where did planters first look for slave resources? |
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| first to Africa, then domestically |
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| What did Joseph Smith feel he was doing with his Mormon Church? |
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| restoring God's original design for the church |
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| What did Joseph Smith promise? |
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| A return to a patriarchal, communal faith |
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| Why were the Mormons so unpopular? |
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Radical religious doctrines, including polygamy
Intense secrecy, which gave rise to rumors
Growing political & economic power |
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| When was Joseph Smith imprisoned in Carthage, IL and killed by an angry mob? |
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| Who was Joseph Smith's successor? |
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| What was significant about the Shakers? |
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Founded in England by Mother Anne Lee who believed she was the second incarnation of Christ
Renounced sex/practiced celibacy |
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| What are the Shakers remembered for? |
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| What was the radical viewpoint of the Shakers with regard to women raising children? |
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| They saw women having to raise many children as a societal problem, and implemented celibacy as a solution |
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| Whose concept of marriage was that every man and every woman were married to each other and could consequently have sexual relations? |
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| Who founded the Oneidan Community? |
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| What demonstrated the Oneidan community's view against capitalism? |
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| They were against the concept of private property: not even one's own body was to be considered private property |
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| Who was extremely influential in the very beginning of the abolitionist movemment? |
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| Where did the Santa Fe trail originate? |
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| Kansas City; originally part of fur trading trails |
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| Who were the first Americans to explore the Oregon Trail? |
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| What was the primary reason the Mormon Trail was established? |
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| The mormons attempted to "avoid other Americans" in their travels |
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| The Mexican-American War was fought on what 3 fronts? |
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Rio Grande
Mexican borderlands
Central Mexico (Mexico City, etc.) |
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| What purchase completed the concept of "Manifest Destiny"? |
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| What did the Wilmot Proviso state? |
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| That no territory acquired from Mexico will permit slavery |
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| Did the Wilmot Proviso pass both the House and Senate? |
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| Who made up the "great triumvirate?" |
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John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay |
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| What was decided by the Compromise of 1850? |
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Cali was admitted as a free state
P.S. was declared in the newly admitted western territories (NM, Ariz., & Utah)
Slave trade was ended in D.C.
A tougher fugitive slave law
Texas boundary and debt settled |
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| Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin? |
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| What was the major effect of the Kansas/Nebraska Act? |
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| Nullified the Missouri Compromise |
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| What did John Brown do to be sentenced to death by hanging? |
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| Led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry |
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| What was the most successful, largest slave revolt in the 19th century? |
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| List the 7 Deep South States: |
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S.C.
Mississippi
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas |
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| What was the order of secession of the 7 deep south states? |
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S.C
Mississippi
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas |
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| What was the first successful use of a submarine to sink a ship? |
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| Who proposed the Anaconda Plan to "strangle the south? |
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| What 2 confederate river forts were captured by Ulysses S. Grant? |
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| Ft. Henry (TN River) and Ft. Donelson (Cumberland River) |
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| What was the major result of the fall of fts. Henry and Donelson? |
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KY no longer occupied by Confederacy
Union began to take control of the MS River |
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