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| the ostendo manifesto pertained to | the US' ability to acquire Cuba "by any means" |
| bleeding kansas was brought about because of | the outbreak of violence relating to slavery |
| according to stephen douglas' freeport doctrine, | the voters of a territory could effectively exclude slavery simply by refusing to enact laws that gave legal protection to slave property |
| republican party's position in the election of 1860: | shed nativist image, developed an economic program, gained support from southern states |
| lecompton constitution: | protected the rights of those slaveholders already living in kansas to their slave property and provided for a referendum in which voters could decide whether to allow in more slave states |
| Dred scott decision: | declared that congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories |
| main issue unifying Republican party: | abolition |
| one of zachary taylor's views on slavery was: | southerners would best protect slavery if they refrained from rekindling issue in the states |
| conscience whigs: | led by william seward of N.Y. and were anti-slavery |
| why were northerners interested in the economic development of the western territories and the extension of slavery into them? | didnt want slavery extended since it would affect free laborers and the northern economy |
| significance of Uncle tom's cabin? | put a human face on the institution of slavery and made northerners aware of its horrors |
| cornerstone of the southern defense of slavery? | nothing in the constitution forbade a state one way or another on the issue of slavery |
| personal liberty laws were... | aimed to preclude state officias from enforcing the fugitive slave law and forbade the use of state jails to incarcerate alleged fugitives |
| what happened to southern agriculture during the civil war? | drop of man power in army decreased yields per acre of crops |
| why was the union more politically cohesive than the confederacy in the civil war? | the union already had a government while the confederacy had struggled to make one at the begginning of war |
| anaconda plan was to: | blockade all confederate forts to gain control of the mississippi river and richmond |
| during the 1st 2 years of the war, what was it marked by? | stalemate |
| sherman pursued mass destruction in 1864 because | he believed war is cruelty and you can't refine it |
| why did the confederacy expect help from england and france? | thought that britain depended on their cotton production and that the upper class would be sympathetic to their cause |
| what was the most affective way to raise war revenue for both sides? | war bonds |
| the union capture of vicksburg and port hudson was stragically important because it | totally split the confederacy and gave the union control of the mississippi |
| how did both governments handle dissent? | davis treaded mildly for being feared of being labeled a despot and lincoln used dissent to rally patriotic fervor against democrats and imposed martial law |
| most important factor in lincoln's reelection in 1864? | fall of atlanta in 1864 |
| emancipation proclamation: | issued jan. 1. 1863. freed all slaves in rebellious areas |
| conscription: | drafted able- bodied males to the army- kept changing the age restrictions to gain more army members |
| ex parte merryman determined that: | lincoln had exceeded his authority in suspending the writ of habeas corpus in maryland |
| the group that held the most office in the reconstruction governments of the south: | scalawags |
| scalawags were: | entrepreneurs who applauded party politics such as national banking system and high protective tarriffs and planters and former whigs who opposed secession |
| why did the battle for black suffrage divide the battle for womens' rights? | black rights advocates thought that black suffrage would pave the way for womens' suffrage and black men deserved top priority while womens' rights advocates argued it would give way to the aristocrasy of sex |
| what brought the radical + moderate republicans in an alliance against johnson? | his denouncing the 14th ammendment |
| the black codes | were state gove. ensurance of a landless dependant black labor forse that established racial segregation |
| as a result of johnson's impeachment | a precedent was set that future presidents would not be impeached soley on political grounds or that 2/3 of congress disagreed with them |
| the sharecropping and crop-lien systems developed after the civil war in the south | left the south with bleak economic prospects and locked much of the south into a cycle of poverty |
| backbone of the republican party, 8/10 votes? | freedmen |
| the money question referred to in the 1870s | whether greenbacks should be pulled from circulation |
| historians view radical reconstruction as a failure because | it didnt go far enough |
| what doctrine did the supreme court use in the slaughterhouse cases of 1873? | dual citizenship- 14th ammendment protected the rights of national citizenship, not state citizenship |
| main pillar of authority after the civil war in black communities were | ministers |
| in order to convince southern democrats yo accept hayes' victory, republicans agreed to: | hayes removing federal troops from reconstruction states south carolina and louisiana, democrats could gain contral of these states, fed patronage to railroads and support for internal improvements |
