u.s history chapter 3
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- What allowed new territories that applied for statehood to vote on the issue of entering the union as a free state or a slave state?
- Popular Sovereignty.
- What was the compromise of 1850?
- Allowed california to enter the union as a free state, and called for a more effective fugitive slave law.
- What document proclaimed that slavery would not be permitted in any territory that was acquired as a result of the U.S war with Mexico?
- The wilmot Proviso
- What ended the U.S. and Mexican war?
- The treaty of Guadalupe.
- The concept of nullification, supported by John C. Calhoun was directly linked to what?
- the idea of states rights
- The nullification crisis of 1832 resulted because ______?
- South carolina Declared the protective tariff of 1832 null and void in their state.
- Why did the U.S go to war with mexico?
- The annexation of Texas by the U.s. in 1845
- What was the Missouri compromise?
- Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a Slave state and Maine as a free state.
- Who were great reform activist and members of the abolitionist movement?
- William Garrison, Fredrick Douglas, and the Grimke Sisters
- What led to much harsher treatment of slaves in teh south?
- Nat Turner's slave rebellion.
- Who were two major figures in the Woman's Rights movement?
- Elizabeth Candy, and Lucretia Mott
- How did the Jacksonian Democracy impact American politics?
- increasing suffrage of white males, Development of the spoils system, and empowering the common citizen.
- What was the Seneca falls convention in New York?
- The first significant Woman's Rights movement.
- What was the main goal of the Woman's rights movement?
- Suffrage (voting rights)
- Who was responsible for reforming public education?
- Horace Mann
- What is the Reform Movement?
- The concept that certain things in America needed to be changed or improved.
- Who was the manifest destiny president?
- James K. Polk
- What is manifest destiny?
- The concept that the u.s. would span coast to coast from the Atlantic to the pacific.
- What was the temperance movement?
- Organized effort to prevent drinking alcohol
- What was the abolitionist movement?
- The fight to rid the nation of slavery.
- What transformed the musket industry.
- Interchangeable parts.
- Why did western expansion occur?
- Manifest destiny, discovery of gold in California, and the development of the Oregon trail.
- Who is Eli Whitney?
- Invented cotton gin and interchangeable parts
- Why did slavery dramatically increase in the south?
- Because of the cotton gin.
- What is the Monroe Doctrine?
- Warned European powers not to interfere with the affairs of the U.S in the western hemisphere.
- Why was The Monroe doctrine made?
- it was a response to European nations trying to create new colonies in south America.
- New York City became a major center for trade in the northwest because _____?
- Erie Canal
- Who Fought in the war of 1812
- U.S. and Great Brittan.
- Define nationalism.
- deep devotion to one's country.
- The Erie canal effectively joined what two bodies of water?
- The Atlantic ocean to the great lakes.
- What are some causes of the war of 1812?
- British impresment, interference by foreign nation in American trade, Napoleonic wars.
- Who explored and mapped the Louisiana purchase?
- Louis and Clark
- The Louisiana purchase roughly doubled the size of the united states and encouraged what?
- Western Expansion
- What was the Northwest ordinance of 1787?
- Send a message to the world saying that all the land east of the mississippi river belonged to the US, and created a quick path to statehood for the land of the northwest territory.
- Who was president when the Louisiana purchase was made?
- Thomas Jefferson
- How did Andrew Jackson expand the roll and power of the presidency?
- Firing many federal officials and govt. employees and replacing them with his loyal followers and friends.
- What was the main issue as America expanded?
- Would new territories be free states, or slave states?