elections of 1860‚ the United States was divided by decisions concerning slavery. The Missouri territory came to the United States as part of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. The House of Representatives put forward an amendment to the admission of Missouri that would prohibit the introduction of slaves into Missouri and freeing the children of slaves at the age of 25. The Senate passed the bill admitting Missouri without the amendment‚ but it was rejected by the House‚ pushing the controversy into 1820. The
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List several evils that the reformers of the period 1820-1860 tried to eliminate. Gender inequality and slavery were the two biggest evils that reformers tried eliminating in the time period. The abolition of slavery had many reformers behind it. Two very important men trying to achieve this were Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison‚ a white man‚ going to show there was support from all types of people. Two of the women’s rights advocates were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sarah Grimke. They
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PEQs APUSH MacKenzie Hudgins 1. The Jacksonian period (1824-1848) has been celebrated as the era of the “common man”. To what extent did the period live up to this characterization? Consider 2 of the following in your response: -Economic development -Politics -Reform Movements One of many questions to ask with regards to the Jacksonian era is‚ “Who was the common man?” This concept is the greatest contradictory question to ask that determines the validity of the name “era of the
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APUSH REVIEW This is intended to be a guide for your exam review. A candidate needs to get about 60% of the 80 multiple choice questions correct to have a good chance to pass the AP Exam (plus 5/6 on each of the three essays). The questions are designed to test your understanding of different aspects of U.S. history: political/diplomatic‚ social/economic‚ cultural/ intellectual. It is not EASY! Prepare Well! Exploration‚ Discovery‚ and Settlement -Europe in the Sixteenth Century -Significant
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AP Exam Essays 2001-2010 2010 AP Exam Essays 1. In what ways did ideas and values held by Puritans influence the political‚ economic‚ and social development of the New England colonies from 1630 through the 1660s? 2. Analyze the political‚ diplomatic‚ and military reasons for the United States victory in the Revolutionary War. Confine your answer to the period 1775–1783. 3. Analyze the ways in which controversy over the extension of slavery into western territories contributed to the coming
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importing and exporting business in the country. While the North was looking to advance and change the South was the exact opposite. While Northerners looked for ways to maximize output‚ farming in the South was as labor intensive in 1800 as it was in 1860. The South did not accept change‚ and did its best to stick with traditional practices. What enabled the southern economy to work at all was the reason it could not follow the North. Because slaves were capital and labor it made it impossible to
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Study Guide I. United States Civil War: causes‚ course‚ and effects a. Cotton Economy and Slavery i. Cotton is King ii. Conditions of enslavement 1. “peculiar institution” of slavery frowned upon for a long time iii. Abolitionists 2. Underground Railroad a. Network of secret routes and safe houses used in helping slaves escape to free states b. Harriet Tubman i. Also known as Moses
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the only way to abolish slavery was to forcefully free the slaves. However‚ people in the South did not see what was so wrong about owning a person as property and felt that these newspapers and pamphlets were an attack on their way of life. Sectionalism began to form as tension between the Northern and Southern states grew. Soon enough‚ war broke out between the states and the Civil War had begun. Abolitionists such as John Brown‚ Frederick Douglass‚ and William Lloyd Garrison were major contributors
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other jobs. The South especially needed more slaves at this time because they were now growing more cotton then ever because of the invention of the cotton gin. Cotton production with slaves jumped from 178‚000 bales in 1810 to over 3‚841‚000 bales in 1860. Within that time period of 50 years the number of slaves also rose from about 1‚190‚000 to over 4‚000‚000. The plantation owners in the South could not understand why the North wanted slavery abolished that bad. Southerners compared it with the wage-slave
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Chapter 12 The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism‚ 1812–1824 1. A Scary War with Britain (pp. 233–240) a. What do the authors say at the outset is the “supreme lesson” of the War of 1812? The leading a divided and apathetic people into war is a bad idea b. For two years‚ the Americans and British fought to a standstill in Canada. What event in Europe in 1814 allowed the British to concentrate all their forces in America? Napoleons power was destroyed
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