AMSCO Chapters 12 - 15
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| 272766445 | What is the basic principle behind Manifest Destiny? | U.S. will spread from coast to coast because it was destined by God | 0 | |
| 272766446 | Between what two regions was there a boundary dispute that the Webster-Ashburton Treaty solved? | Northern Maine and Canada | 1 | |
| 272766447 | Why is 1823 didMexico look to bring in Americans to settle the Texas region? | to develop the region | 2 | |
| 272766448 | For what two reasons did tensions ignite between the Mexicans and Americans in 1829? | 1)take away slavery 2)convert them to Catholicism | 3 | |
| 272766449 | Why is it that Santa Ana coming to power in Mexico ignited Texas revolting? | Unlike other Mexican leaders Santa Ana tries to in force: 1)no slavery 2)becoming catholic | 4 | |
| 272766450 | What was the campaign of James K. Polk centered around? | 54 40 or Fight | 5 | |
| 272766451 | How did the dispute between the Rio Grande and Nueces River begin the Mexican-American War? | Mexico thought the border was the Nueces and Texas thought it was the Rio Grande Texas offers to buy the land but Mexico says no so Texas send soldiers passed the Nueces River and then Mexico attacks | 6 | |
| 272766452 | Identify the two maine provisions within the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: | 1)Border between Texas and Mexico becomes the Rio Grande 2)15 million - purchase the Mexican Cession | 7 | |
| 272766453 | What was the purpose of the Wilmot Provisio? What did its passing in the House and not in the Senate resonate the delicate balance that had to be maintained between the number of Slave and Free states? | -The purpose of the Wilmot Provisio was to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession -When it passes in the House that means that the North is more dominate in the North and fails in the Senate because it is mostly South dominated -If North controls the house of representatives and without the slave - free balance in the Senate then South looses its political party | 8 | |
| 272766454 | What was the purpose of the Gadsden Purchase? | Last piece to build a southern transcontinental railroad | 9 | |
| 272766455 | What occurs in California in 1849? | Gold Rush | 10 | |
| 272766456 | What was Commodore Matthew Perry able to do in 1854? | open up Japan for trade | 11 | |
| 272766457 | How did the Free-Soil come into formation and why did this contribute to Zachary Taylor being elected in 1848? | Free-soilers don't like slaver and it was because free-soil splits the Democratic vote | 12 | |
| 272766458 | What are the five parts to the Compromise of 1850? | 1)California is a free state 2)New Mexico and Utah Territory - decide through popular sovereignty 3)Ban slave trade in Washington D.C. 4)Creation of harsh fugitive slave laws 5)U.S. assumes Texas debt | 13 | |
| 272766459 | Define popular sovereignty | Territory's right to vote on slavery | 14 | |
| 272766460 | What novel was the most influential in its day and how did it portray Southern lifestyle? | Uncle Tom's Cabin - protrays slave owners as cruel and inhuman | 15 | |
| 272884839 | What is the basics behind the creation of the Kansas - Nebraska Act? | Senator Cass uses popular sovereignty, adopted for Kansas and Nebraska | 16 | |
| 272884840 | What did popular sovereignty and the Kansas - Nebraska Act effectively nullify in terms of how slave/free states were established in the past? | Got rid of Missouri Compromise | 17 | |
| 272884841 | What was the major platform of the Know-Nothing Party and who were the members of this political party? | they were anti-immigration and the members were white, protestant Northern urbaners | 18 | |
| 272884842 | The failure to the Know - nothing party also led to the downfall of what other party? | The Whigs | 19 | |
| 272884843 | How did the Kansas - Nebraska Act lead to "Bleeding Kansas"? | both pro slavery and anti slavery peoples hoed up in kansas and started shooting each other | 20 | |
| 272884844 | What did the Lecompton Constitution call for? | pro-slavery and it didn't pass | 21 | |
| 272884845 | What were the thee things that were established with the Dred Scott case in 1857? | 1)slaves are not citizens 2)you can not deny someone their property and slaves are property 3)Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional | 22 | |
| 272884846 | What did the Lincoln-Douglas Debates do for Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln? | Douglas won in the senate but not in the presidential Lincoln wins the presidential election | 23 | |
| 272884847 | Why was Lincoln able to win the election of 1860 without one single electoral vote from the South? | South split the electoral vote | 24 | |
| 272884848 | What did the Crittenden Compromise say and why was it rejected by Lincoln? | It says we bring everything back to the 36 30 line and Lincoln says no because its not the presidential platform he ran on | 25 | |
| 272884849 | How did Lincoln give South Carolina a choice in permitting the fort to hold out or opening fire on it? | He tries to resupply the fort and South Carolina is not happy and attacks | 26 | |
| 272884850 | What would the loss of the Border States meant for the union? | Buffer Zone | 27 | |
| 272884851 | Identify the three parts of Winifield Scott's Anaconda Plan | 1)Block off all ports on the East Coat 2)Capture the Mississippi River 3)Capture Richmond | 28 | |
| 272884852 | What realities did the Battle of Bull Run bring to the forefront? | Civil War is going to be long, bloody, and expensive | 29 | |
| 272884853 | What was Lee trying to do before the battle of Antietam, and what did the Union victory in this battle allow Lincoln to do? | Fighting goes from defensive to offensive. Lincoln releases the Emancipation Proclamation | 30 | |
| 272884854 | Describe the events behind the Trent Affair | U.S. captures one of the British ships so British sides with the Confederates and then the Union promises they won't do it again and British draws out | 31 | |
| 272884855 | What did the Thirteenth Amendment State? | Gets rid of slavery forever | 32 | |
| 272884856 | what did the Union victory at Vicksburg allow them to capture thus fulfilling the Anaconda Plan? | Mississippi River | 33 | |
| 272884857 | What did the Union victory at Gettysburg mark for the war? | Turning point of the war, union starts winning | 34 | |
| 272884858 | What is Grants Plan of Total War? | fight the army and their ability to create war which means the citizens and cities | 35 | |
| 272884859 | What was the purpose of Sherman's march to the Sea? | Total War - ultimate example - Georgia | 36 | |
| 272884860 | What did the Appomattox Court House mean for the war? | the end, Lee's surrender | 37 | |
| 272884861 | Why were poor laborers so afraid of the Conscription act with led to draft riots were poor laborers attacked African-Americans and rich whites? | Mad that the rich people could pay their way out of the draft and while they were in the army the blacks would take their jobs | 38 | |
| 272884862 | What was the purpose of the Homestead Act (1862)? | to populate the west | 39 | |
| 272884863 | What was the purpose of the Pacific Railway Act of 1862? | Free land for all railroad companies | 40 | |
| 272884864 | Who created the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction? What were the two parts of it? | Lincoln 1)States must agree to no slavery 2)10%swear loyalty oath | 41 | |
| 272884865 | How did the Wade-Davis Bill differ from the Proclamation of Amnesty in the previous question? | 10% changed to 50% former confederate leaders can't vote | 42 | |
| 272884866 | What were the three parts of the Black Codes? | system of edict and made Africans 2nd class citizens | 43 | |
| 272884867 | What were the ideals of Radical Republicans? | 1)support civil rights for Blacks 2)South should be punished for their actions | 44 | |
| 272884868 | What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 state? | All former slaves are now citizens | 45 | |
| 272884869 | What were the three phases of the Reconstruction period? | 1)Presidential reconstruction 2)Congressional Reconstruction 3)Grants 2nd term | 46 | |
| 272884870 | What were the circumstances surrounding the impeachment of Andrew Jackson? | -vetoing civil rights legislation -create the Ten- year of Office Act -He openly defies it -Impeachment -can't remove a president because he differs | 47 | |
| 272884871 | How did sharecropping come about and how did it work? | Blacks will receive, seeds, equipment, and the land from the land owner so the blacks get less than 1/2 of profit and the farmer gets the other 1/2 or more | 48 | |
| 272884872 | What did the Compromise of 1877 involve for Rutheford B. Hayes to become president? | Democrats said the will vote for Hayes (republican) if the republicans will agree to: 1) Southern transcontinental railroad 2) Take all Union troops out of the South this ends the reconstruction period | 49 |
