HIST 201- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 16 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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Voters: small farmers in s and w, unskilled workers, irish and catholic. Ideology: limit the government"s role in economy and reform pro-expansion. Tariffs of 28 and 32 null and void. Centralized govt"s holding pay debts and raise money. Death of the bus and rise of pet banks . Creation of the whig party (1836, wm h harrison) Voters: northern evangelical, skilled workers (new england and upper midwest) Cherokees laws void and legislature can"t meet. Ga"s governor will provide a military guard for cherokee lands. All whites on cherokee land must register with ga. Worcester v. ga (1832- u. s. supreme court) Fear of capitalism (corporations and special interests) not improvement. 100 million acres (se) for 30 million acres (ok) Internal factionalism (ross v. treaty chiefs- murdered 1839) 2 million slaves, 160,000 free blacks, 4 million whites. 1860 15 slaves states (ar, fl, tx) 1840 - 1. 3 million bales of cotton. Planters (owned > 20 slaves), 10% of white population.
