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In the Pro- Slavery Argument (1837), John C. Calhoun stated that slavery was
A "positive good"
The key to victory for the United States in the Mexican War was
Winfield Scott's seizure of Mexican city.
The Mexican in large part from
The U.S. Provoking Mexico to fight.
In 1836 Texas did not immediately join the United States in part because
President Andrew Jackson thought that action would add to sectional tension
In the election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected with much less than half of the popular vote.
In the 1820 and 1830s the government of Mexico
Moved from favoring to opposing American immigration into Texas
In the mid-1840s the Oregon country in the Pacific Northwest
Included an Indian population that had been devastated by disease.
Between 1840 and 1860, most migrant traveling west on the overland trails
Found the journey to be a very collective experience
The Wilmot Proviso
Prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico
In 1844 president James Polk supported the acquisition of
Oregon and texas
The compromise of 1850 allowed for the admission of California
Along with a strengthened fugitive slave act.
Wishing the ideology of the Manifest Destiny were all of the following beliefs except that
U.S. Expansion was acceptable so long as it stayed out of Mexico and Canada
Southern defenders of slavery made all the following argument except that
Black codes protected slavery from abuse
In the 1820s, most of the settlers from the U.S. Who migrated to Texas were
White southerners and their slaves
In 1845, the immediate cause of war with Mexico was
A dispute over territory
Charles Grandison Finney
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David walker
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Elizabeth cady Stanton
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Feminism during antebellum
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Frederick Douglass
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Fugitive slave law
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Henry David Thoreau
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Horace mann
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Hudson River school
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Indian reservation- antebellum
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James cooper
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Joseph Smith
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Lucretia Mott
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Margaret fuller
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Hawthorne
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Protestant revivalism
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Public education
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Ralph Emerson
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Temperance crusade
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Transcendentalism
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Utopian societies
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Walt Whitman
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William Garrison
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Compromise of 1850
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Fred Scott de
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