Unit 4 Exam US History
Manifest Destiny
-The US was destined by God and history to expand in size -The US should create vast new "empire of liberty" -The growth of the US was not selfish but altruistic
Secession of states
-The first state to secede from the Union was South Carolina -In 1860, President James Buchanan asserted that no state had the right to secede from the US -Fort Sumter surrendered on April 14, 1861, after Confederate forces bombarded it -President Lincoln's call for volunteers resulted in the succession of arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina
Texas economy of 1820s
A cotton economy dependent on slavery
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist and former slave most associated freedom with the right to earn a living
Development of the Continent
America would eventually become what a highway for transporting goods and culture
Tension Texas colonists and Mexico
Attempts to stem immigration from the US
Panic of 1837
Caused by -Crop failures -Collapse of credit -Specie shortage in Europe and the United States
Sam Houston
Commander of the Texas army at the battle of San Jacinto; later elected president of the Republic of Texas
Lincoln/Douglass debates
Lincoln argued slavery was a threat to growth of free labor
War with Mexico
Occurred due to annexation of Texas. US won. Got California, Nevada, Utah, NM, Arizona and Texas.
Texas joining the U.S.
President Andrew Jackson thought that action would add to sectional tension
Jefferson Davis
Prior to becoming president of the Confederacy, ____________ had been regarded as a moderate to succession He proved to be a tense, humorless leader who micromanaged every detail of the war
Individual success
Reformers of the 1830s believed that hard work, industriousness, and frugality were the keys to...
End of the Jackson administration
The Democratic Party had grown too diverse to remain stable
South expanding slavery
The defense of property rights and ability to move that property motivated
Final slave debate by 1850
The disposition of land acquired in the war with Mexico forced the North and South into the...
Lack of development in the South
The phrase "The South grew, but did not develop" Prior to the Civil War meant that the South had failed to move from an agrarian to an industrial economy
Abolitionists and violence
When nonviolent means did not work, American abolitionists encountered violent opposition to their activities
similarities between Van Buren and Jackson
agreed that the federal government should not manage currency.
Constitution of the Confederacy
almost identical in many respects to the Constitution of the US, only it supported slavery and white supremacy
William Lloyd Garrison
generally opposed violence to achieve an end to slavery
Transcontinental railroad
had issues as non-slave owning northerners and slave-owning southerners could not agree on a route
Middle class jobs
jobs required mental rather than physical labor
Non slave-owning southerners
largely dependent on the plantation economy
John C. Calhoun
made the argument that Congress had no right to impose limits on the expansion of slavery
John Brown's raid
many southerners assumed the North was dominated by people intent on destroying the South
Benevolent Empire
people, as God's agents, should care for other people
Slavery/Political
posed a threat to northern white people's freedoms as well.
Whig
referred to Jackson's opponents because they believed that Jackson ruled like a king instead of an elected officials
The New Middle Class
self-made man
Confederate government tension
states' rights
Free Soil Party
supported opposition to the expansion of slavery
Politics of Confederacy
the absence of a two party system
Critics of expansion
warned it would increase the controversy over slavery