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    Gadsden purchase - is a 29‚670-square-mile (76‚800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden‚ the American ambassador to Mexico at the time‚ on December 30‚ 1853. It was then ratified‚ with changes‚ by the U.S. Senate on April 25‚ 1854 and signed by President Franklin Pierce‚ with final approval action taken by Mexico on June 8‚ 1854. The purchase was the last major territorial acquisition in

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    victory tempts historians and readers alike to classify the old South as an un-American aberration. However‚ historian Susan-Mary Grant has challenged the notion that the antebellum North was nationalistic because of its opposition to slavery. “By the 1850s a stereotyped view of the South and a sense of moral and economic superiority had created a powerful northern sectional identity. Championed by the Republican party‚ this identity flowered into an exclusionary nationalism in which the South served

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    Revolution – Course and Consequences • Treaty of Paris 1783 C. The Beginning of America • The Articles of Confederation – Goods and Bads o Land Ordinances o Unanimous Voting o Shays Rebellion • The Constitution o The Convention o The Compromises o The Organization of the Government o Checks and Balances o Bicameralism o Elastic clause o Federalists v Anti-Federalists o Federalist

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    Vanessa Bratcher Judy Graves History 358 13 October 2010 Bibliography of Clara Brown During the time of slavery many African Americans suffered from the harsh treatment of their owners. Clara Brown was one of the many slaves that experienced separation from her loved ones‚ forced into labor and abuse. Clara Brown was born into slavery in 1803 in Spotsylvania County‚ Virginia. Brown and her mother were separated from her father when they were bought by tobacco farmer Ambrose Smith. From the

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    appearing more and more ominous‚ establishing party leaders moved to resolve differences between the sections. In 1850‚ California asked to be admitted into the Union as a free state. Many southerners opposed the measure‚ fearing that it would upset the sectional balance in Congress. Senator Henry Clay offered a plan with four main provisions that came to be known as the Compromise of 1850. California would enter the Union as a free state. The slave trade‚ but not slavery itself‚ would be abolished

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    APUSH: DBQ ­ 1st Semester Final  DISCLAIMER: This is NOT the only way to do this essay‚ don’t take any of this as gospel. We  are people. If you disagree‚ go ahead and do it your way. That will work too. We are not  responsible for your essay‚ that is your job. We are simply here to get a headstart.    What is needed for a better DBQ  ● more analysis beyond the basic information from the documents.  ● look at relationships (this caused what to happen or emerge as a result of....) even if  the DBQ doesn’t ask you to

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    died in office (1784-1850) Fugitive Salve Act- provided harsh punishments for people who helped slaves run away.  It also forced people living in free states to return run-away slaves to their owners. Transcontinental Railroad- railroad network of trackage that crosses a continental landmass‚ with termini at different oceans or continental borders Kansas Nebraska Act- 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska‚ opened new lands‚ repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820‚ and allowed

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    Good Luck everyone: ​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrG0AwUJQDQ        1. Adams­Onís Treaty (1819)​  ­­ (Transcontinental Treaty) ­­  ​ The treaty between the  United States and Spain that gave Florida to the United States and set out a  boundary between the United States and New Spain (now Mexico) that settle  boundary disputes.  Treaty was negotiated by Secretary of State John Quincy  Adams and Don Luis de Onís.  John Quincy Adams was big into gaining territory.  The treaty was significant because it gave Florida to the United States and 

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    The Mexican War is often regarded as one of the United State’s most controversial wars. The idea of Manifest Destiny was beginning to consume the minds of many Democratic Americans. They wished for the United States to expand their land to possess a continental control; it was believed that more land would mean furthered economical success. Meanwhile‚ the Whigs felt that the key to expanding the country was embracing the economical endeavors that were already being pursued. In order for the continent

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    Expansion brought along a lot of controversy over whether the South could bring their slaves wherever they wanted and which new states would be slave or free. The issue over free or slave state many times was resolved by a compromise such as the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave

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