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What does Popular Sovereignty mean
Letting the people decide
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Who was John C. Fremont
He was the first Republican Presidential Candidate
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What made Zachary Taylor famous and later got him the presidency`
He fought in the Mexican War
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Who was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Mexico's president who fought against us in the Mexican War
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What was the Agrement that ended the Mexican war
Guadalupe Hidalgo
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What were the four trails going West that were talked about in the book and tell info about them
Oregon- it was a fur trappers trail then forgotten and then rediscovered by settlers goin West, Mormon- Used by thousands of Mormans, California - A branch of the Oregon Trail that extended South, and Santa Fe- The first American route West of the Missouri, it was primarily a trade route
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What is Manifest Destiny
It is the inevitable growth of the nation from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
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Tell about the Compromise of 1850
It was caused by the admittance of California as a free state, the South was outraged, it divided the rest of the land of the Mexican Cession into the New Mexico and Utah states, in both of these territories they had popular sovereignty over whether it was a slave or free it also put into effect a strict Fugitive Slave law requiring all Federal govt. officials to help find Runaway Slaves
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T or F- were most Northerners in the early 1800's abolitionists who wanted equal rights for blacks
False, only a few were abolitionists most wanted some rights for blacks
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T or F- most Southerners owned slaves before the Civil War
False, only 1/3 of the pop. owned slaves
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T or F- for some slaves the final destination of the Underground Railroad was Canada
True
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T or F- The Confederacy chose extremist fire-eaters to lead its govt.
False, no they choose moderate people
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What did Stephen Douglas do
He split the Compromise of 1850 into 5 parts to help them be passed
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Who was Abraham Lincoln
He was the president during most of the Civil war, he was from Kentucky he was a moderate president nominated by the Republicans
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Who was Roger B. Taney
He was the chief justice on the Supreme Court, he was part in the Dred Scott decision
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Who was Jefferson Davis
He was elected the president of the Confederate States of America
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Who was Robert E. Lee
He was the leader of the Confederate army and he arrested John Brown
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Who invented the reaper
Cyrus McCormick
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who invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
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Who invented the steel plow
John Deere
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Who invented the Clipper Ship
John W. Griffiths
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Who invented interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
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Who invented the telegraph
Samuel F. B. Morse
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What were tent revivals
They were when hundreds or thousands of people came and were saved they would pitch their tents and listen to someone preach
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Who was Robert Fulton
he created the steamboat
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who invented the factory system in America
Samuel Slater
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What was the War for Texas
It was the war in which Texas gained Independence from Mexico, the Alamo was in this war
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What was the Mexican War
It was the War that resulted from Texas becoming a state, United States Won and gained the Mexican Cession
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