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| transportation system in the south |
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| no canals, most roads were unsuitable for heavy transport, railroads failed to tie the region together efficiently |
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| worked away from the "work ethic" |
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| percentage of southerns that owned slaves |
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| one head of the family owned the slaves |
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| better education in the 1850s |
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| forbid slaves to own property, to leave their master's property without permission, to be out after dark, to congregate, to carry firearms, to strike a white person, to learn how to read and write. |
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| slave became free by . . . |
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| earned money somehow with which they managed to buy their own and their family's freedom |
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| people who revolted against slavery |
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| gabriel prosser, denmark vesey, and nat turner |
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| founder of the morman religion |
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| Declarations of Sentiments and Resolutions |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony |
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| found the north star, abolitionist leader |
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| author of The Scarlet Letter, a Brook Farm resident |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, |
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| author of Nature and Self Reliance, a Brook Farm resident |
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| a transcendentalist feminist |
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| author of The Scetch Book and "Rip Van Wrinkle" |
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| author of Walden, Brook farm resident, "a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place fora just man is also prison" |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony |
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| author of the Communist Manifesto |
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| author of the "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee" |
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| author of The Last of the Mohegans |
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| author of Moby Dick, Brook farm resident |
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| author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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| poet of American Democracy, Brook farm resident, and the author of "The Leaves of Grass" |
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| Sectionalism in the 1830s |
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| slavery and westward expansion |
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| destiny of Manifest Destiny by . . . |
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| anti expansion, called for co-presidents |
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| U.S. immigration into Mexico |
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| Mexico wanted the U.S. immigrants in hopes to strengthen the economy and increase their tax revenues, and they liked the Americans between them and the Indians |
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| dropped by the Mexicans in 1833 |
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| annihilation of the American garrison, French and Spanish vs. Americans, general santa anna was taken prisoner by Sam Houston |
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| non supported by Jackson, crucial issue of the 1844 election |
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| Oregon, Washington, Idaho, parts of Montana and Wyoming, half of British Columbia |
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| fur trading company established by John Jacob Astor |
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| "dark house" candidate James Polk |
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| president of texas when it was annexed |
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| John Sutter and Thomas Larkin |
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| leading citizens of their region |
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| John Sutter, James Polk, and Thomas Larkin |
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| shared dream of aquiring California |
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| wanted to try to buy off the mexicans |
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| after slidell's rejection . . . |
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| pres polk ordered gen. taylor's army to nueces river |
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| vote in congress to declare war on Mexico |
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| Senate and House majority opposed |
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| The American forces were brought together |
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| Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo |
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| Mexico agreed to cede california and new mexico to the u.s. and acknowledged the rio grande as the texas boundary. U.S. promised to take over Mexico's debts to the citizens of the new territories against Mexico and pay the Mexicans 15 million dollars |
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| The West and Mexico felt about polk . . . |
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| They were dissatisfied by him |
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| an amendment to the appropriation bill that would prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico |
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| allwed people of each territory to decide the status of slavery there |
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| new party of 1848 election |
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| winner of the election of 1848 |
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| taylor from the whig party |
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| who was attracted to california by the gold rush |
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| 1849 free and slave states |
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| california be admitted as a free state, territorial governments be formed w/o restrictions on slavery in the new lands acquired from mexico, texas yeild in its boundary dispute w/ new mexico and the federal government compensate it by taking over its public debt, the slave trade be abolished (not slavery), a new more effective fugitive slave law be passed |
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| new leader of mississippi |
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| died in office, succeeded by millard fillmore |
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| president elected in 1852 |
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| attempted to get rid of the fugitive slave act |
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| 1854, wanted to rescue a fugitive slave who was about to be returned to the south |
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| wanted to seize cuba by force |
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| would not support a slave system |
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| st. louis, memphis, and new orleans |
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| ends of the transcontinental railroad, supported by the south |
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| eastern end of the transcontinental railroad, supported by the north |
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| stephen douglas wanted to organize it because of the strength of the principal argument against the northern route |
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| creation in 1854 spurred by the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
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| murdered 5 pro-slavery people at the Pottawatonie Massacre in "Bleeding Kansas" |
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| Kentucky, a prominent southern politician who spoke openly in opposition to slavery, edited an abolitionist newspaper in lexington |
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| held an uprising in 1831 that terrified the whites |
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| wrote in 1837 that slaves were better off than northern factory workers |
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| believed in white's man's burden (or the black people) |
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| supported by the south, in the house of representatives |
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| candidates of the 1856 election |
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| democrat - james buchanan, republican - john Fremont, know-nothing party - millard fillmore (again) |
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| 1857, declared that the missouri compromise was unconstitutional because congress had no authority to pass a law depriving people of their slave property in their territories |
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| not approved by the voters, kansas entered as a free state |
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| against the extension of slavery, NOT an abolitionist, favored popular sovereignty |
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| written by douglas, he tried to have the people of a territory legally exclude slavery before forming a state constitution simply by refusing to pass laws recognizing the right of slave ownership |
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| scared the white southerners |
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| majority vote of 1860 election |
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