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- Chapter 13
- What was the Young America Movement and who was the first to use the phrase “young America”?
- The Young America Movement was an American political and cultural attitude in the mid-nineteenth century. Inspired by European reform movements of the 1830s the American group was formed as a political organization in 1845 by Edwin de Leon and George H. Evans
- Who was Hermann Melville?
- Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American writer best known for the novel Moby-Dick. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, became a bestseller), but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime.
- Why did Texas have a revolution?
- Santa Anna didn't enforce the Mexican Constitution of 1824. That Constitution Texas supported. So of course, it angered Texans and tensions grew between Texans and the Mexican government and finally after all options failed, Texans resorted to war.
- What states were independent nations before they became states?
- Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Texas, California, Hawaii
- Who was the first president of the Republic of Texas?
- Sam Houston
- Why did Polk declare war on Mexico?
- Units of the Mexican army had attacked an American outpost north of the Rio Grande
- What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo do?
- Mexico gave texas, california, and land in between to the united states
- What impact did Railroads have on the US?
- Allowed people to move things that were heavy long distances, as well as connected the east to the west coast allowing for much longer travel in a lifetime.
- Where did most immigrants to the US come from at this time?
- Ireland and Germany but mostly Ireland
- Why did the Irish come? Where did most settle?
- In search of a better life and employment, Irish Potato Famine was happening. Boston
- Who was Cyrus McCormick?
- Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company in 1902.
- What type jobs did most immigrants do?
- Domestic jobs (maid, essentially slave), Servant Jobs, Railroad jobs, Bridges and Construction jobs
- What was manifest destiny?
- The desire by the US to move West and expand
- What was the Wilmot proviso?
- Would have banned slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
- Chapter 14
- What happened to Charles Sumner?
- He died in office of a heart attack
- How did the Free Soilers feel about slavery?
- They opposed it
- What was popular sovereignty?
- Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people is the principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power
- What proved it wouldn’t work?
- “Bleeding Kansas”
- Who created the Compromise of 1850?
- Henry Clay
- Why did Douglass propose the Kansas Nebraska Act? Was this act successful?
- To repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allow settlers popular sovereignty on slavery. The bill passed but it divided the nation and pointed it towards civil war.
- What did the Know Nothing Party believe in?
- It promised to purify American politics by limiting or ending the influence of Irish Catholics and other immigrants
- Why didn’t nativists like Irish and German immigrants?
- They saw the immigrants as hostile and alien towards the culture
- What led to the birth of the Republican party?
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- What led to its rapid growth?
- The election of Lincoln, their leader, as the president
- What happened in the Kansas elections that made the fraudulent?
- Pro-slavery voters kept fudging results so they could dominate, and the anti-slavery people caught on
- Where was the capital of “free” Kansas?
- Lecompton, Kansas
- What book was significant in promoting abolitionism?
- “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano”
- What questions did the Supreme Court face in the Dred Scott case?
- Dred Scott, was an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as "the Dred Scott Decision
- Who was Taney?
- Chief Justice who wrote for the court
- What did he say about this case?
- Scott, as a person of African ancestry, was not a citizen of the United States and therefore had no right to sue in federal court
- Who were the presidential candidates in 1860?
- Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas
- Chapter 15
- Which state was the first to secede?
- South Carolina
- Describe the Confederate constitution.
- In regard to most articles of the Constitution, the document is a word-for-word duplicate of the United States Constitution. However, there are crucial differences between the two documents, in tone and legal content, and having to do with the topics of states' rights and slavery.
- What was the Crittenden plan?
- A series of constitutional amendments proposed in Congress in 1860 to serve as a compromise between proslavery and antislavery factions, one of which would have permitted slavery in the territories south but not north of latitude 36°30′N.
- Where were the first shots of the war fired?
- Fort Sumter
- What did the attack at Sumter do for the north?
- The bombardment of Fort Sumter was the first military action of the American Civil War. Following the surrender, Northerners rallied behind Lincoln's call for all states to send troops to recapture the forts and preserve the Union
- Where was the confederate capital first established?
- Montgomery, Alabama
- Where did they move it?
- Richmond, Virginia
- Which states were part of the Confederacy?
- South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina
- Which side drafted?
- North
- What was a greenback?
- United States note, type of paper money
- How did the confederate economy do during the war?
- The Union blockaded them and their economy essentially collapsed
- How did Jefferson Davis perform as a war leader?
- Proved incapable of handling the Confederacy's home front problems.
- What was the first battle of the war?
- battle of bull run
- What happened? Which side won?
- The Union army came to virginia where Stonewall Jackson held his ground and gave the south a win
- Who was Winfield Scott?
- US army general who developed the Anaconda Plan
- Who replaced him?
- George McCellan
- What was the bloodiest one day battle of the war?
- Battle of Antietam
- Where did a serious riot occur during the Civil War?
- New York City Draft Riot
- How many African Americans served in the Union army?
- About 180,000
- How could the wealthy get out of the war in the North?
- Some states let you buy your way out by paying another person to serve
- Who died at Chancellosrville?
- Stonewall Jackson
- Which battle did the Union gain control of the Mississippi River?
- Battle of Vicksburg
- Which Union general was most effective?
- Ulysses S. Grant
- How many soldiers died in the Civil War?
- 620,000
- Was the war fought mostly in the north or south?
- The south's war aim was independence not conquering the north and due to that there were only two serious invasions of the north.
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