I. COMPROMISE OF 1850
1845: 15-13 (Texas and Florida)
1846: 15-14 (Iowa)
1848: 15-15 (Wisconsin)
1. Fugitive Slave Act
2. Abolish slave trade in D.C.
3. Cali in as Free State
4. Popular Sovereignty in new territories
5. Resolved boundary dispute btw. Texas and New Mexico
II. The Trouble Escalates:
A. Transcontinental Railroad
--Stephen Douglas
B. Kansas-Nebraska Act
C. “Bleeding Kansas”
--New England Emigrant Aid Company
--“Beecher’s Bibles”
--John Brown
--Pottawatomie Creek
D. The Caning of Sumner
IV. Party Politics
A. Decline of the Whigs
B. Rise and Fall of the "Know-Nothings"
C. Rise of the Republicans
--The Election of 1856--
V. On the Verge of War:
A. Dred Scott
B. Panic of 1857
C. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
D. John Brown's Raid
E. The Election of Lincoln
Monday, November 16, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE/HISTORY 231/FALL 2009
FINAL EXAM TIME: NOVEMBER 23, 8-10:30pm
I. Identifications(4 OF 6) 5% each=40%
You will answer 4 identifications out of the 6 that I give you:
Remember, each term requires a complete paragraph
defining the term with sufficient detail and explaining why the term is significant.
Worcester v. Georgia
Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)
John Brown
Battle of New Orleans
Lewis and Clark
Lowell Factory System
Caning of Sumner
St. Patrick's Battalion
Manifest Destiny
John C. Calhoun
Embargo Act
John Marshall
Marbury v. Madison
Louisiana Purchase
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Compromise of 1850
“Beecher’s Bibles”
Know-Nothings
Dred Scott Case
Election of 1860
Jefferson Davis
Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
Erie Canal
II. Essay Questions: (60%)
One of the following questions will be on the test.
1.The sectionalism that developed between the North and South, ultimately causing the Civil War, was the product of numerous factors. What were the most important political issues that drove the two sections of the nation apart? What role did slavery play in causing the war?
2.Compare and contrast the War of 1812, the War with Mexico, and the Civil War.
3.Thomas Jefferson urged Congress to withdraw the United States “from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have long continued upon the unoffending inhabitants of Africa.” His ideas were contradicted by his actions. How did this contradiction, the presence of the ideal of freedom alongside the reality of slavery, change the United States in the period from the Revolution to the Civil War?
FINAL EXAM TIME: NOVEMBER 23, 8-10:30pm
I. Identifications(4 OF 6) 5% each=40%
You will answer 4 identifications out of the 6 that I give you:
Remember, each term requires a complete paragraph
defining the term with sufficient detail and explaining why the term is significant.
Worcester v. Georgia
Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)
John Brown
Battle of New Orleans
Lewis and Clark
Lowell Factory System
Caning of Sumner
St. Patrick's Battalion
Manifest Destiny
John C. Calhoun
Embargo Act
John Marshall
Marbury v. Madison
Louisiana Purchase
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Compromise of 1850
“Beecher’s Bibles”
Know-Nothings
Dred Scott Case
Election of 1860
Jefferson Davis
Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
Erie Canal
II. Essay Questions: (60%)
One of the following questions will be on the test.
1.The sectionalism that developed between the North and South, ultimately causing the Civil War, was the product of numerous factors. What were the most important political issues that drove the two sections of the nation apart? What role did slavery play in causing the war?
2.Compare and contrast the War of 1812, the War with Mexico, and the Civil War.
3.Thomas Jefferson urged Congress to withdraw the United States “from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have long continued upon the unoffending inhabitants of Africa.” His ideas were contradicted by his actions. How did this contradiction, the presence of the ideal of freedom alongside the reality of slavery, change the United States in the period from the Revolution to the Civil War?
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
War with Mexico
Causes of War
Economic Expansion:
Playing Politics:
British Interests in Texas
Slave State Power Grab
Ideas:
Manifest Destiny
John L. O’Sullivan
Two Wars:
California
Mexico
Outcome:
A. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
1. Mexican cession of 525,000 square miles
2. U.S. pays $15 million
3. U.S. assumes $3.25 million in debt to Mexico
B. Gadsen Purchase: $10 million
C. Trouble: (imbalance)
Two Articles from Treaty of G-H
ARTICLE VIII
Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, and which remain for the future within the limits of the United States, as defined by the present treaty, shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove at any time to the Mexican Republic, retaining the property which they possess in the said territories, or disposing thereof, and removing the proceeds wherever they please, without their being subjected, on this account, to any contribution, tax, or charge whatever.
Those who shall prefer to remain in the said territories may either retain the title and rights of Mexican citizens, or acquire those of citizens of the United States. But they shall be under the obligation to make their election within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty; and those who shall remain in the said territories after the expiration of that year, without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans, shall be considered to have elected to become citizens of the United States.
In the said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inviolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract, shall enjoy with respect to it guarantees equally ample as if the same belonged to citizens of the United States.
ARTICLE IX
The Mexicans who, in the territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States. and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States) to the enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the United States, according to the principles of the Constitution; and in the mean time, shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property, and secured in the free exercise of their religion without; restriction.
COMPROMISE OF 1850
1845: 15-13 (Texas and Florida)
1846: 15-14 (Iowa)
1848: 15-15 (Wisconsin)
1. Fugitive Slave Act
2. Popular Sovereignty in new territories
3. Cali in as Free State
4. resolved boundary dispute btw. Texas
and New Mexico
5. abolish slave trade in D.C.
Economic Expansion:
Playing Politics:
British Interests in Texas
Slave State Power Grab
Ideas:
Manifest Destiny
John L. O’Sullivan
Two Wars:
California
Mexico
Outcome:
A. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
1. Mexican cession of 525,000 square miles
2. U.S. pays $15 million
3. U.S. assumes $3.25 million in debt to Mexico
B. Gadsen Purchase: $10 million
C. Trouble: (imbalance)
Two Articles from Treaty of G-H
ARTICLE VIII
Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, and which remain for the future within the limits of the United States, as defined by the present treaty, shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove at any time to the Mexican Republic, retaining the property which they possess in the said territories, or disposing thereof, and removing the proceeds wherever they please, without their being subjected, on this account, to any contribution, tax, or charge whatever.
Those who shall prefer to remain in the said territories may either retain the title and rights of Mexican citizens, or acquire those of citizens of the United States. But they shall be under the obligation to make their election within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty; and those who shall remain in the said territories after the expiration of that year, without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans, shall be considered to have elected to become citizens of the United States.
In the said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inviolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract, shall enjoy with respect to it guarantees equally ample as if the same belonged to citizens of the United States.
ARTICLE IX
The Mexicans who, in the territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States. and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States) to the enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the United States, according to the principles of the Constitution; and in the mean time, shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property, and secured in the free exercise of their religion without; restriction.
COMPROMISE OF 1850
1845: 15-13 (Texas and Florida)
1846: 15-14 (Iowa)
1848: 15-15 (Wisconsin)
1. Fugitive Slave Act
2. Popular Sovereignty in new territories
3. Cali in as Free State
4. resolved boundary dispute btw. Texas
and New Mexico
5. abolish slave trade in D.C.
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