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| Describe at least 5 justifications or defenses of slavery offered by antebellum white southerners? |
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Definition
| Biblical, legal, historical, scientifical, and sociological. |
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| Compare and contrast features of slavery in Latin America and the United States? |
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Definition
Latin America- economical, demographical, regional, more african men then women and families, brith rate 40:1000, life expectancy:23, african slave trade to in crease slavery.
US- religious, cultural, brith rate 50:1000, life expectancy:35, natural birth to increase slavery. |
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| Describe 4 manifestations of the slave culture? |
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Definition
| Song, Christianity, enduring family, folktails |
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| What were the lives of free blacks like in the north, what where the lives like for them in the south, how many of the total # of African Americans were free blacks? |
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Definition
North- little status or privileges, couldnt vote, bear arms, buy liquor, assemble, speak in public, form societies, testify against whites in the north.
South- Rural blacks were poor farmhands, day laborers, wood cuters. cities they worked in factories, lived in appaling poverty. a few skilled jobs such as barbering, shoemaking, and plastering were reserved for black men. they were bored from more than 50 other trades.women worked as cooks. laudresses, and domestics.
12 or 13% |
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Term
| Describe: Narcissa Whitman, Lansford Hastings, John O’Sullivan, Fort Laramie Treaty, and the Gwinn Land Law. |
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Definition
nw- teach native tribes christian and american practices.
lh- wrote a book to provide info the emigrants would need but also the encouragement that heading for the frontier was the right thing to do.
jos- editor of the democratic review expressed the conviction that the country's superior institutions and culture gave americans a god given right, even an obligation to spread their civilization across the entire contienent.
flt-1st agreement between the plains tribes and the US gov. expressed the conviction of whites that indians must stay in clearly defined areas apart from white civilizations. |
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| What kind of American settlers were already in the trans-Mississippi lands by 1830? |
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Definition
| Tribes from the south: the cherokee, shwnee, and delware and the old northwest. |
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Term
| Describe the typical immigrants to the far west and give three motives for people to undertake such a difficult journey? |
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Definition
| Farming, mining, and religion were the 3 motives of moving out west. the typical immigrants were parents with 1-4 kids |
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Term
| Why did emigrants passing through Utah find Mormon society both “familiar and orderly, yet foreign and shocking?” |
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Definition
| attractively laid out towns with its irragation ditches, gardens, and tidy houses. that emigrants compared Mormon women to the black slaves and gossip about pologmy and searched for signes of rebellion from Mormon women. |
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| Describe the idea and ideals of the following: Young America, William Walker, Ostend Manifesto, and the Know-Nothing Party? |
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Definition
ya- the idea of a national mission.
ww- the idea to add slave lands to the country.
om- the ideas that Spain had to sell Cuba to the US.
tknp- they gave anti-catholism a national, political focus for the 1st time. |
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| What changes occurred in religion and education for southern black during Reconstruction? |
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Definition
schools were segregated, but rich and poor blacks and whites had access to education. school attendance for african americans increased from over 5% to 40% and whites it increased from 20% to 60%. all this costed money so the republicans increased tax rates and state debts.
with the religion aspects more preachers were african american and were well educated. |
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| Describe the 3 groups that made up the Republican Party in the South during Reconstruction? |
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Definition
| african americans, northern republican capitalists, predominately whites. |
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| Describe at least 5 accomplishments of Republican state government in the South during Reconstruction? |
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Definition
| some accomplishments that the republicans made during reconstruction were: they eliminated undemocratic features from prewar state constitutions, the souths first public school systems, divorce laws and privisions granting property rights to married women, they were financially set and physically set. |
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| Describe the Mississippi plan for Southern “redemption.” Why were the 3 forces acts ineffective? |
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Definition
the Mississippi plan was describes and the democrats used similar tactice, openly announcing that " the thieves...robbers, and scoundrels" in power "deserve death and ought to be killed."
the 3 forces act was ineffective bc they did little to stop the reign of terror against black and white republicans throughout the south. |
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