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Why did President Polk order General Zachary Taylor across the Nueces to the banks of the Rio Grande in 1846?

Led by John C Fremont, a group of American settlers near Sacramento launched a revolt against Mexico; and in June 1846 they proclaimed California an independent republic. This action was the

Indian guide who served and Lewis and Clark’s translator and adviser:

Identify the author of the following primary source quote:

"The presence of United States troops on the edge of the disputed territory furthest from the Mexican settlements, was not sufficient to provoke hostilities. We were sent to provoke a fight, but it was essential that Mexico should commence it . . . To this day I regard the war which resulted as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory."

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"Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove, at any time, to the Mexican republic . . . In said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans shall be inviolably respected."

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"[It is] our manifest destiny to overspread and possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us."

When did Mexico concede defeat in the Mexican-American War?

By the middle of the 1830s, the number of American immigrants into Texas

In the early 1830s the Mexican Congress turned vast landholdings in the Mexican borderlands over to

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"And is it supposed that the wandering savage has a stronger attachment to his home than the settled, civilized Christian? Is it more afflicting to him to leave the graves of his fathers than it is to our brothers and children? Rightly considered, the policy of the General Government toward the red man is not only liberal, but generous. He is unwilling to submit to the laws of the States and mingle with their population. To save him from this alternative, or perhaps utter annihilation, the General Government kindly offers him a new home, and proposes to pay the whole expense of his removal and settlement."

Texas was annexed by the United States in

According to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Californios and Mexicans in the ceded territories

In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), Chief Justice John Marshall recognized Indians as

Mexico's northern frontier provinces developed

Chief John Ross was

When Sam Houston assumed office as the president of the new republic of Texas in October 1836, he expected

What city experienced explosive growth as a result of the gold rush in California?

By the mid-1820s, Americans had established direct links with which Mexican province?

Which of the following was NOT a United States territorial acquisition in the 1840s?

The term Gold Mountain refers to

Had it passed, the Wilmot Proviso would have

The CA Gold Rush

What was Manifest Destiny NOT based on?

By the 1830s, the Cherokee had

Why did slaveholders in the upper South sell their slaves during the antebellum years?

How did planters like to present themselves to the critics of slavery in antebellum America?

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"The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and in some sense, the freest people in the world. The free laborer [in the North] is more of a slave than the negro."

By 1830, the slave population in the US had

Cultivation in the Upper South, unlike the Lower South, was focused on:

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"On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell the man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to moderately extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen—but urge me not to use moderation in the cause like the present."

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"What, to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license. . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery."

White Southern evangelical churches preached against all the following EXCEPT:

practicing slavery

dueling

drinking

gambling

The most common daily form of resistance to slavery in the antebellum South was

Which of the following did Southern white women despise the most about plantation society?

In spite of poor diet, lack of medical care, and a high infant mortality rate, the United States was the only slave society in the Americas where the

What did John C. Calhoun call Southern slavery in the United States in 1837, an argument later put forward by George Fitzhugh?

"Cotton was king in the Old South." Which of the following statements about cotton is true?

In North America, slave revolts were ________; in Latin American slave societies, full-scale revolts were ________.

By 1860, what percentage of white southern families owned slaves:

All of the following were leaders of planned slaved revolts EXCEPT:

Nat Turner

Denmark Vesey

George Fitzhugh

Gabriel Prosser

Who enjoyed the highest status in the slave communities of the American antebellum South?

All of the following were proslavery arguments in the South EXCEPT:

southern slaves were better cared for than northern workers

slavery promoted high technology in the South

the Bible called for it

slaves were like children who needed their master's care

Why did nonslaveholding white southerners support the slave system?

What was the status of the black slave family?

Identify the author of the following primary source quote:

"I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell his birthday. . . My mother was named Harriet Bailey. . . . My father was a white man."

Which statement best summarizes the effects of slavery on the southern economy?

Slaveowners made up ________ of the southern white population, but the true "planters of consequence," with at least 50 slaves, _______.

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled

Class relations among whites in the Old South were a complex blend of

essay 1
Some historians have argued that, since the founding of the first British colonies, the fundamental theme of US history has been expansionism. Trace the causes and consequences of American westward expansion from 1801 to 1865. What political and economic factors drove US westward expansion? In terms of attitudes and mindset, how did Americans often justify expansion? How did expansion affect the peoples of newly acquired territories? Be sure to include some discussion of the Louisiana Purchase, Indian Removal, and the US-Mexican War

essay 2
Outline the evolution of slavery and the experiences of African-American slaves during the antebellum South (1800-1860). In your answer, be sure to at least touch on the following questions: Why did King Cotton come to dominate the economies of the South during the early nineteenth century? How did white Southerners justify slavery? Why did so many nonslaveholding white southerners support slavery? Who was Frederick Douglass and how representative was his experience of slaves in general? What factors most determined an individual slave's experience? How did slavery impact African-American family life and culture? In what ways did African-American slaves resist slavery?

One measure of Black efforts to experience freedom was the

An 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe this book hardened opionions on both sides of the slavery debate

Proslavery arguments (3)

most common form of resistance towards slavery by slaves in the South

Most historians view Reconstruction (1865-1877) as a democratic experiment that failed because it

At the outbreak of war in 1861, Lincoln's primary objective was to

The Emancipation Proclamation which went into effect on Jan 1, 1863

The north had all of the following advantages which contributed to its victory except:

Over twice the population

90% of US industry

2/3 of US railroads

more raw cotton

Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.'"