AP US HISTORY FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS SINCE 1971 I. Colonial Time 1607 - 1775 1. Puritanism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Apply this generalization. (74) 2. In the seventeenth century‚ New England Puritans tried to create a model society. What were their aspirations‚ and to what extent were those aspirations fulfilled during the seventeenth century? (83) 3. Between 1607 and 1763‚ Americans gained control of their political
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In 1820‚ Congress passed the Missouri Compromise‚ which created Missouri as a slave state‚ and Maine as a free state‚ in order to preserve the balance of power between North and South. However‚ in 1854‚ the Missouri Compromise was revoked by the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ which specified that the issue of slavery would be decided by the settlers of each territory‚ an idea
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Aisha Rapant DBQ Essay The period of time between 1800 and 1860 contains contrasts depending on place in America. Between the North and South lay differences in economic and political factors. This Antebellum period was one that caused disagreements over how best to help the economy‚ the extension of slavery‚ and relationship between states and
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after the 1852 election‚ the temporary peace of the Compromise of 1850 came to an end. Senator Stephen Douglas passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act which created two new territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The status of slavery in the area was decided to be by popular sovereignty. This act wrecked two compromises The Compromise of 1820‚ and 1850‚ and the democratic party. While the act formed a new party: the Republicans. Throughout many compromises‚ and conflicts one of the large decisions was the Dred
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procreation 48. Thomas Crawford’s Statue of Freedom that adorns the Capitol dome 49. The number of people who had braved the western trails and emigrated to Oregon and California 50. Mormons 51. Brigham Young 52. Joseph Smith 53. Texas in the 1820s 54. “Fifty-four forty or fight” 55. James Polk 56. The Mexican-American War 57. Manifest destiny 58. “Race” in the mid-nineteenth century 59. Freedom
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2013 Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle The Popular Sovereignty Panacea Popular sovereignty- the sovereign people of a territory should determine the statues of slavery. This was popular with politicians because it was a comfortable compromise between the abolitionists and the slaver-holders National Convention at Baltimore‚ Democrats chose General Lewis Cass as their candidate of presidency (pro-slavery) Political Triumphs for General Taylor Whigs met in Philadelphia and chose Zachary
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lived in a region of the United States with his master where slavery was illegal because of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Missouri came in as a slave state but was restricted slavery above the 36°30’ line. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 came into play which stated that a state would be determined as free or slave by popular sovereignty. However‚ it partially invalidated the Missouri Compromise. (Bell. “Civil War on the Western Border”).
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Lincoln in 1861 with the secession of the southern states. After the secession of the southern states‚ the war officially started with the Battle of Fort Summer on April 12‚ 1861. Many disagreements regarding slavery‚ the states‚ the economy‚ and compromises caused the buildup to the Civil War. The South wanted to
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