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History Test Chapters 10,11,12
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11th Grade
12/11/2012

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Lowell System
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factory system that put women to work
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Industrial Revolution
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use of machinery for production
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Transendentalists
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believed in inner truth and self reliance (type of writing of emerson and roe)
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manifest destiny
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americas policy to go from east to west
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Interchangable Parts
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replacable parts
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Gag-Rule
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prevented any discussion of slavery in the house
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Wilmot Provisio
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spoke about preventing slavery in the new mexican territories
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Compromise of 1850
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Henry Clay and Pres. Miller Filmore
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Uncle Toms Cabin
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by harriet b stowe/ described southerners as evil masters of slaves
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dred scott decision
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denied blacks constitutional rights
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Underground Railroad
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Led by Harriet Tubman/series of stopovers for slaves on the route to canada
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Dorothy Dix
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helped mentally ill
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James Polk
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expansionist president who waged war w/ mexico
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James Freemont
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pathfinder of the west (free soil candidate)
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william l. garrison
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wrote abolishionist newspaper "liberator"
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Frederick Douglass
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famous black abolitionist (known for his eloquent speaking)
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Bill Butcher
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against something/enforcer 
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Americas pace scale in the 19th century increased for everyone except
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women and children
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1st major improvement in transportation
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canals and roads
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Biggest reason businesses grew
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abundance of raw materials
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Most southerners viewed slavery as
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a necessary evil
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Civil War was brought on by
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failure to compromise (on the slavery issue)
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QUOTE: "the people through sovereignty have the right..."
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Steven Douglas
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QUOTE: "That what is not just, is not law"
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William Lloyde Garrison
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QUOTE: "i will not rest until this evil...."
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John Brown
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QUOTE: "A black man has no rights"
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Roger B. Taney
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QUOTE: "In the true spirit of freedom..."
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John C. Calhoun
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Why did the popular sovereignty approach to slavery prove to be unworkable?
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-Popular Sovereignty is a principle of the constitution

-It was to let the people decide

- Problem was that both sides were so passionate about their cause that there was bloodshed (e.x. Bleeding Kansas)

-In Addition, the Dred Scott Case actually ignores the constitutional principle of popular sovereignty because it defined a slaves rights under the law.

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