AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 54: Neo-Confederate, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Epicenter
28 Mar 2018
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Most members of the american party, or "know-nothings", were interested in ________ immigration: increasing opportunities for european, promoting u. s. ideologies to attract, reducing, attracting cheap labor through asain, reducing. Their political platform condemned the other political parties as hopelessly corrupt and called for legislation restricting office to native-born citizens, barring public funds for parochial schools, and raising the period of naturalization for citizenship from 5 to 21 years. Which of these political parties won the presidential election of 1860: democrat, "know nothing, whig, republican, republican. Which of these states was the first to secede from the union during the early 1860s: south carolina, virginia, north carolina, texas, south carolina. Which of these books about slavery was the highest selling work during the 1850s: uncle tom"s cabin, 12 years a slave, john brown goes to kansas, uncle tom"s cabin. Many northerners gradually became increasingly hostile to slavery, even if they did not believe in racial equality.
