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Test on Friday 11/30 Standard

Study, study, study What did Nat Turner do?

• Leader of a Slave Rebellion in VA • Caused changes in treatment of slaves in some states What was the result (or significance) of Nat Turner’s rebellion • Placing stricter slave “codes” or laws on slaves To balance the slave and free states and create a rule of entrance for new states of the Louisiana Territory. (1820) • The Compromise What two states entered in the agreement from #3 (and which way? Free/slave)

• Missouri- Slave • Maine- Free (kept the balance to 12 each) What was it called when the Tariffs were opposed by the South and they wrote about how it was unconstitutional?

• Nullification Crisis What is the name of the paper that stated that the federal government was unconstitutional in their actions of this “”? • Doctrine of Nullification How was involved in the Nullification Crisis?

• It was the state had issue with the actions of the Government in the Nullification Crisis (Calhoun was from here) What did John C. Calhoun have to do with the Nullification Crisis? • He wrote the Doctrine of Nullification What is Loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole? • In what ways were the North and South different in the period of 1800-1860? • North had: No , industry, urbanization, and small farms. • South had; plantation slavery, agricultural base, and poor subsistence farmers. Webster Ashburton was a treaty that settled the dispute of what territory? • The shared Oregon territory between Britain and the U.S. As a president of the U.S., what did James Polk do that no other president has accomplished?

• Added more territory during his term as president than any other U.S. President? Why did people from the U.S. settle the areas of Texas? • The Mexican Government encouraged them to do it. (many were trying to plant cotton) What happened at the Alamo?

• The Texans lost to the Mexicans. It became the rallying cry in the Texas Independence. What are the three reasons the

U.S. went to war with Mexico? • Annexation of Texas • The boundary dispute on the annexation of Texas • Bad relations between U.S. and Mexican Governments. Who are Zachary Taylor and ? • Famous leaders of the victory of the Mexican War What is the “Lone Star State”? • Texas What is the “Bear Flag Republic”?

• California What is the Mexican Cession?

• section of land the U.S. purchased at the end of the Mexican War What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? • treaty that ended the Mexican War What are the three results of the Mexican War? • Texas boarder was the Rio Grande • U.S. paid 15 million for the section of land • Mexico gave up California and pt. of New Mexico. What piece of Manifest Destiny did we purchase to accommodate lower elevations for the Transcontinental RR? • Gasden Purchase Why did California quickly become a state before many others in the Manifest Destiny? • Because so many people moved there to search for gold in 1849. What stated that slavery would NOT be allowed in the new Mexican Cession? • Fugitive Slave Laws were upsetting to reformers, where were they added into law? • was a “compromiser” in what two issues in Standard 8? • • Compromise of 1850 The Wilmot Proviso stated that there should ____ be slavery in the Mexican Cession. • NOT With the Wilmot Proviso making that statement in #27, what was then put to being written? • Compromise of 1850 Where did the Compromise of 1850 say there could no longer be slavery, but no slave trading? What state was entered?(F or S)

• Washington D.C. • California- Free According to the Compromise of 1850, how would states now be designated free or slave?

• inhabitants of these places would decide upon slavery when they applied to be admitted