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| Advocates of Manifest Destiny claimed what motive for expansion? |
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| To expand their liberties |
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| Almost all supporters of Manifest Destiny agreed to what? |
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| Who was the victorious commanding general at the Battle of San Jacinto? |
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| Main reason of Texas Revolution? |
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| Main issue of 1844 Presidential campaign was Polk's commitment to do what? |
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| Becoming involved with Manifest Destiny |
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| Americans who became involved with Mexico traveled along which trail? |
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| The heaviest fighting during the Mexican-American War was where? |
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| Located in central Mexico |
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| What were the provisions of Guadalupe Hildago? |
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| The United States bought New Mexico and California from Mexico for fifteen million dollars. |
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| How did Polk antagonize sectional interest during the 1840s? |
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| By appearing to treat Texas as more important than Oregon |
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| What groups of people formed the Free Soil party? |
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| Whigs, Democrats, and supporters of the Wilmot Provisio |
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| The Wilmot Provisio prohibited slavery in any area acquired from Mexico gets passed by the House but lost in the Senate or passed by the Senate and lost in the House? |
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| Passed by the House and lost in the Senate |
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| The California gold rush resulted in what developments? |
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| 200,000 people migrating to that region, the forcing of Indians to serve as indentured laborers, and the US gains 1.2 million miles |
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| What was Zachary Taylor's view on the Mexican territories? |
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| He favored new states from Mexico |
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| How did the application for California statehood cause turmoil in Congress? |
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| No one knew if it was going to be a free/slave state |
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| What were the provisions of the Compromise of 1850? |
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| Fugitive Slave act, California as a free state, abolished slave trade in Washington |
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| What senator maneuvered the Compromise of 1850 through Congress? |
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| What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott vs. Sanford case? |
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| That Congress had no authority to exclude slavery from the federal territories |
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| What triggered sectional conflict in 1854? |
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| When President Polk treated Texas as more important than Oregon |
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| The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 contained what provisions? |
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| Repealed anti-slavery provision, created popular sovereignty, two new territories |
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| When the question of Kansas reached Congress, what did the Democratic President argue? |
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| He urged Congress to admit the state to the Union under the proslavery Lecompton constitution |
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| What group of people did the Emancipation Act free? |
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| All the slaves of the South except those already under Union control |
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| At the beginning of the war, the North had what advantages? |
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| Larger manpower reserve, advanced industrial system, transportation, stronger will |
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| What happened as a result of John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry? |
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| Increased Southern fear of Northern hostility |
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| What were the provisions of the Crittenden compromise? |
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| Preservation of slavery in Washington D.C., constitutional amendment to guarantee continued existence of slavery in current slave states, reestablishment of the Missouri Compromise line, and prohibition of slavery north of that line |
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| Late 1860, the divisive forces in the US were no longer counter-balanced by what? |
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| A respect to the Constitution, a romantic version of America's great national destiny, and a stable two-party system |
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| What were the Union's objectives in the Civil War? |
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| Destroying the Confederate armies, restoring federal authority in all states, preventing European powers from intervening, establishing a naval blockade around the Confederacy |
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| What best describes the Confederate war effort? |
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| Somewhat centralized, but hampered |
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| What was Great Britain's policy towards America during the Civil War? |
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| What two Union victories sealed the fate of the Confederacy in 1863? |
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| What was unique about the Battle of Anteitam? |
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| It was the bloodiest single day of the war |
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| How did Lincoln respond to opposition of the war effort? |
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| Engaging in widespread suspension of civil liberties |
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| Who were mainly the victims of mob violence in the New York City drag riots? |
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| How did the Congressional plan of reconstruction differ from Lincoln's? |
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| Punishment of Confederate civil and military leaders, disenfranchisement of Southern whites, protection of legal rights of blacks, confiscation of property from wealthy Southerners |
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| What did the Democratic platform of 1864 call for? |
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