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HIST 1301 Final
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05/10/2010

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What distinguished the Upper South from the Lower South?
Definition
Climate
Geography
Term
What was the key difference between the Upper and Lower South?
Definition
The suitability of the Lower South for growing cotton with gangs of slave laborers (soil was more suitable for cotton and other commercial crops in the Lower South)
Term
Where was the soil most depleted in the Upper South?
Definition
Where tobacco had been cultivated extensively
Term
What caused the Upper South to become less tied to plantation agriculture and slave labor by midcentury?
Definition
Economy ws more balanced among agriculture, manufacturing and trade
Term
What was a state's slave code?
Definition
Laws defining the status of slaves and the rights of masters
Term
A state's slave code gave what to slave owners?
Definition
near-absolute power
Term
According to most slave codes, what actions by a slave were punishible by death?
Definition
Striking a master, committing arson, or conspiring to rebel
Term
Which religion gained the most slave converts?
Definition
Baptist
Term
What were the largest slave crops in the American South in 1860?
Definition
Tobacco
Sugar
Rice
Term
To cultivate their crops, where did planters first look for slave resources?
Definition
first to Africa, then domestically
Term
What did Joseph Smith feel he was doing with his Mormon Church?
Definition
restoring God's original design for the church
Term
What did Joseph Smith promise?
Definition
A return to a patriarchal, communal faith
Term
Why were the Mormons so unpopular?
Definition
Radical religious doctrines, including polygamy
Intense secrecy, which gave rise to rumors
Growing political & economic power
Term
When was Joseph Smith imprisoned in Carthage, IL and killed by an angry mob?
Definition
June 1844
Term
Who was Joseph Smith's successor?
Definition
Brigham Young
Term
What was significant about the Shakers?
Definition
Founded in England by Mother Anne Lee who believed she was the second incarnation of Christ
Renounced sex/practiced celibacy
Term
What are the Shakers remembered for?
Definition
Furniture
Term
What was the radical viewpoint of the Shakers with regard to women raising children?
Definition
They saw women having to raise many children as a societal problem, and implemented celibacy as a solution
Term
Whose concept of marriage was that every man and every woman were married to each other and could consequently have sexual relations?
Definition
Oneidan community
Term
Who founded the Oneidan Community?
Definition
John Humphrey Noyes
Term
What demonstrated the Oneidan community's view against capitalism?
Definition
They were against the concept of private property: not even one's own body was to be considered private property
Term
Who was extremely influential in the very beginning of the abolitionist movemment?
Definition
Garrison
Term
Where did the Santa Fe trail originate?
Definition
Kansas City; originally part of fur trading trails
Term
Who were the first Americans to explore the Oregon Trail?
Definition
Mountain men
Missionaries
Term
What was the primary reason the Mormon Trail was established?
Definition
The mormons attempted to "avoid other Americans" in their travels
Term
The Mexican-American War was fought on what 3 fronts?
Definition
Rio Grande
Mexican borderlands
Central Mexico (Mexico City, etc.)
Term
What purchase completed the concept of "Manifest Destiny"?
Definition
The Gadsden Purchase
Term
What did the Wilmot Proviso state?
Definition
That no territory acquired from Mexico will permit slavery
Term
Did the Wilmot Proviso pass both the House and Senate?
Definition
No, only the House
Term
Who made up the "great triumvirate?"
Definition
John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
Term
What was decided by the Compromise of 1850?
Definition
Cali was admitted as a free state
P.S. was declared in the newly admitted western territories (NM, Ariz., & Utah)
Slave trade was ended in D.C.
A tougher fugitive slave law
Texas boundary and debt settled
Term
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Definition
Harriet B. Stowe
Term
What was the major effect of the Kansas/Nebraska Act?
Definition
Nullified the Missouri Compromise
Term
What did John Brown do to be sentenced to death by hanging?
Definition
Led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry
Term
What was the most successful, largest slave revolt in the 19th century?
Definition
Nat Turner's Revolt
Term
List the 7 Deep South States:
Definition
S.C.
Mississippi
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas
Term
What was the order of secession of the 7 deep south states?
Definition
S.C
Mississippi
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas
Term
What was the first successful use of a submarine to sink a ship?
Definition
The Hunley
Term
Who proposed the Anaconda Plan to "strangle the south?
Definition
Winfield Scott
Term
What 2 confederate river forts were captured by Ulysses S. Grant?
Definition
Ft. Henry (TN River) and Ft. Donelson (Cumberland River)
Term
What was the major result of the fall of fts. Henry and Donelson?
Definition
KY no longer occupied by Confederacy
Union began to take control of the MS River
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