wID Terms for Final 1. Nat Turner Revolt (1831): Slave revolt in the South led by a Virginian slave‚ Nat Tuner. Tuner said he was guided by God to free his people. The insurrection lasted 48 hours and 60 whites were killed. South’s bloodiest slave insurrection. Significance: fear among white southerners‚ increased severity of the slave codes‚ collapse any movement of emancipation in the South 2. Anti-slavery argument (1830s-1860s): America is God’s Promised Land‚ except for slavery which
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The Rise of Mass Politics 1) The Expanding Electorate Every state democratized its electorate; dropping or reducing voting requirements. James Kent argued property qualification should survive for electing senators. Conservative legislature in RI blocked all efforts of democratization. Thomas L. Dorr and the “People’s Party” drafted new constitution n began to set up a new govt with Dorr as governor‚ 2 govts were claiming RI. The old govt claimed Dorr n followers as rebels n began
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John C. Calhoun was born on March 18‚ 1782 and died on March 31‚ 1850. He was an American Politician and a political theorist. He began his career as a nationalist‚ modernizer‚ and a proponent of a strong national government. Over time his views changed and he became a greater proponent of states’ rights‚ limited government‚ nullification and free trade‚ he saw this as the only way to save the Union. He was very well known for his intense defense of slavery as a positive good his distrust of majoritarianism
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The issue of whether or not states had the right to choose if they wanted to have slaves or not was debated by Congress. The Compromise of 1850 helped in adding the tension between the states. It first made California part of the United States. Then it gave the new territories but not the states‚ the right to decide whether or not they should have slaves. The Compromise of 1850 made many of the Union states‚ who wanted to have greater political control‚
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political‚ and religious tensions which eventually lead to the American Civil War‚ but it was ultimately due to the single issue of slavery. Proof of these tensions can be found in many primary sources including: “Slavery a Positive Good” by John C. Calhoun‚ “The Church and Slavery” by Albert Barnes‚ “A Debate on Slavery” by Nathan Lewis Rice‚ “My Bondage and My Freedom” by Frederick Douglass‚ and “The Young Abolitionists; Or Conversations on Slavery” by J. Elizabeth Jones. In the end‚ all of these
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The individual that I chose isn’t one person but a group of individuals who were disgruntle politician who were anti slavery supports known as The Free Soil Party. The party consisted of various parties including the Democrats‚ Whigs the liberty party and New York State anti-slavery group call Barnburner. The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections‚ and in some state elections. This Party was founded in Buffalo‚ New
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led them west. In the beginning of westward expansion‚ the issue of slavery in the newly settles territory became an important and dividing political issue. The Missouri Compromise tried to reach an agreement between the North and South‚ admitting Maine as a free state‚ but Missouri as a slave state. Although the Missouri Compromise was unsuccessful in satisfying the North and South‚ it was important in that it marked the boundary for slavery in the territory
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He was admired by many Americans‚ even by some of his staunchest opponents. Some will say that the true measure of a man is by the words of praise that his opponents bestow upon him. Senator Daniel Webster‚ his political opponent‚ defended Jackson during one of the toughest crises that the Jackson administration faced. Jackson not only guided the nation through the Bank War and the Nullification Crisis but also helped strengthen a growing sense of nationalism
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Unit 2 Dcush test review Study online at quizlet.com/_4x96e 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. "Bleeding" Kansas A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South‚ making civil war imminent. 10% Plan This was Lincoln ’s reconstruction plan for after the Civil War. Written in 1863‚ it proclaimed that a state could be reintegrated
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Southern independence as a new confederation of states under its own constitution. In the late 18th century‚ the abolitionist movement began in the north and the country began to divide over the issue between north and south. In 1820‚ the Missouri Compromise banned slavery in all new western territories‚ which southern states saw as a threat to the institution of slavery itself. With the election in 1860 of Abraham Lincoln‚ who ran on a position of anti-slavery‚ the south felt that slavery was sure
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