Term
| • Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
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Definition
• Missouri enters Union as slave state
• Maine as a free state [balance before 12 states + territory each; after 13 +1 each]
• Slavery prohibited in the N. La territory
• Allowed in the S. La territory |
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Definition
• California came in as a free state [balance 16 states, 1 territory v. 15 states, w-the 2 territories open to choose]
• Compromised reached because N. accepted Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
• Required citizen help recover escaped slaves
• Denied slaves right to trial by jury
• But South feared new Western territories not well adapted to slavery
• Rest of Mexico territory - citizens could choose |
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Term
| William Walker’s expedition |
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Definition
• 45 men invade Baja, California
• Declares himself Pres of new Republic- lslaver legal
• Mexican mil force him from Baja |
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Term
• 45 men invade Baja, California
• Declares himself Pres of new Republic- lslaver legal
• Mexican mil force him from Baja |
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Definition
• Kansas-Nebraska act nullified Mo. Comprise by permitting pop sovereignty on slavery in both territories
• Dead Scott and Sandford- congress did not have authority to prohibit slavery in territories
• Momentum for expansion subsides
• Us buy a part of S. Arizona + SW New Mexican for 10 mil- Gadsden Purchase
• Slavery remained a large predicament
• Transcontinental RR
• California part of Union after 1850
• Great west coast seaports
• Faster steamships
• Growing commercial activities and missionary in Asia and opening of Japan
• W-prospect of a canal across Isthmus
• American interest in Asia grew |
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Term
| • 1846 – US Treaty w/new Grenada [Columbia] |
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Definition
• grants US transit rights across the Isthmus of Panama
• promises railroad and canal route
• Br is alarmed by US intrusion on Br maritime supremacy in Caribbean
• Br seize Greytown, Nicaragua [near Costa Rican border on Caribbean]
• Controlled most of the feasible Trans-isthmus canal route |
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Term
| Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 |
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Definition
• Neither GB nor US alone would monopolize or fortify a canal in CA
• Neither would colonize or exercise dominion over any part of LA
• Treaty delays American efforts to build a canal
• But American enterprises begin to saturate C. American
• Vanderbilt organizes an inter-oceanic steamship and RR connection across Nicaragua
• Other American entrepreneurs complete RR across Panama 1855
• However flag does not follow commerce, even though Br became engages with Fr, Ottoman, and kingdom of Sardinia against Russ in Crimean War |
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Term
The Civil War
• Br tacitly support South |
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Definition
• ¾ of Br market for raw cotton from CSA
• Cotton supports Br commercial and industrial empire
• The southerner are admired for everything but their slavery
• Thus Br could profit from trade as a neutral nation |
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Term
| • Br reasoned about the civil war |
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Definition
• For CSA to win, they only needed to hold on
• For the North to win, it had to conquer CSA
• Thus for Br, probability of success favored South
• To hedge its bets, Br proclaims neutrality, recognizes belligerency |
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Term
| • Several factors kept Br from siding with CSA |
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Definition
• Anglo-Fr proposal to mediate conflict fails
• Russian endorses American Union
• Emancipation proclamation-1962
• 1863 Polish uprising against Russian threatened general war
• Finally, northern victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, July 1863 |
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Term
| • Most American applaud econ expansion, but many felt uneasy with |
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Definition
• w/overseas imperialism
• w/imposition of control over peoples
• w/denying people freedom to choose
• w/undermining of their sovereignty |
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