POLI1061 Midterm: Midterm Review 1
2 May 2018
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Expansion
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❖ Jamestown is first in South 1607 in 1620 there is plymouth, Jamestown does
tobacco Virginia's House of Burgesses, established in 1620, was the first body of
self-government in English America
❖ Plymouth creates Mayflower Compact to begin self governing
❖ John Rolfe developed form of tobacco that survives in Virginia married
Pocahontas
❖ mercantilism: market for mother countries goods and source for raw materials
❖ Pinckney Treaty opened New Orleans to American trade, an important issue for
residents of the river valleys that emptied into the Mississippi River, TJ
purchased Louisiana from France as well
❖ XYZ affair, Quasi War,
❖ James Madison leads country into war of 1812 after british impressment and
attacks, treaty of Ghent ends war establishes specific borders
❖ Adams-Onis Treaty purchased florida from spain
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● Manifest Destiny Spurs western expansion in the the frontier most use Oregon
Trail Initially until Pacific Railway Act when they take trains gold rush in 49
● Stephen Austin Leads americans to texas and then they try to escape Mexico
Pres. James Polk is begged by Texas to allow them to enter the US after the
1835 Texas Revolution at the Alamo against Santa Anna leads to 1846 Mexican
American War ends with treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gives US new territories
● Wilmot Proviso gives Polk permission ad 2 mil to get new territory from Mexico
● Gasden Purchase gets New Mexico and Arizona parts
● Ostend MAnifesto US has right and obligation to get Cuba from spain
● Polk' supporters called for a U.S.-Canada border at the 54 40 parallel, much
farther north than the 49th finally agreed on in the Oregon Treaty
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❏ Pacific Railway Acts begin transcontinental RXR pacific faction mostly built by
chinese, other by the irish end symbolized by Golden Spike connecting them
❏ Morrill Land Grant gives states federal land begins to get sold more
❏ Homestead act gives people cheap property to move out into the west
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★ Open Range allows ranchers to graze cattle anywhere until invention of barbed
wire conflict and property laws
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Imperialism:
● Power, Piety, Profit, Politics
● William JB opposed it along with Anti Imperialist League (no philippines)
● Grover cleveland opposed it
● McKinley, Taft TDR wilson supported it
● Minor C Keith Banana Republics
● Cuba: 1898 Treaty of Paris, post war with spain also when we got philippines
● Panama/Colombia: bought from france builds canal
● dom republic: 1903 ‘protect from europe’ economy crisis banana republics
● 1906m Venezuela dominate w hemisphere
● Nicaragua 1908-1909 revolution backs rebels dollar diplomacy
● mexico: 1910-1918 tries to hep keeps switching sides failure
● Spanish American War: yellow fever USS Maine
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Women
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● Main role was to maintain family structure
● only men can vote
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Seneca falls connection Women declare independance, unpopular bc radical
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Race
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● Fugitive slave Act
● 1808 end external slave trade
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➢ gag rule on congress bans them from speaking of slavery during committee
because it got nowhere
➢ American Colonization Society tries to send blacks back to Africa as
“compromise”
➢ Missouri compromise sets borders for new states and slavery
➢ David walked writes an Appeal to the coloured people of America
➢ William Lloyd Garrison published Liberator
➢ Nat Turner’s rebellion
➢ Gag Rule
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❏ M. compromise and KA N acts cause bleeding Kansas aka Pottawatomie
massacre conflict supported by Lecompton constitution
❏ dred scott v. Stanford Roger Taney delvers
❏ personal liberty laws counter fugitive slave acts
❏ free soil party wants new territory to be free of slavery
❏ Popular Sovereignty, bloody Kansas
❏ Charles Sumner is beaten with the cane of Preston Brooks
❏ John Brown attacks Harper’s Ferry
❏ Harriet Beecher Stowe writes UNcle Tom’s Cabin
❏ Harriet Tubman runs underground rxr
❏ compromise 1850 amends fugitive slave act and slave trade in the US is
abolished
❏ kw nothing party opposes immigration
❏ many republicans don't really want more slavery don’t need to abolish from
south
❏ douglas uses freeport doctrine fails lincoln is elected
❏ Thaddeus Stevens advocated for slaves post war, R Republican
❏ annexation of texas causes more sovereignty crisis
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➔ Lincoln does Emancipation proclamation post Antietam does not include loyal
states in ruling
➔ KKK established by Nathan Forest to combat RRs and AAs
➔ 13th slavery, 14th protection under law, 15th is voting
➔ Civil Rights Act gives people freedom during reconstruction pre amendments
but isn't strong enough
➔ Black Codes Creates before 14th amendments to counter 13th
➔ much lynchings
➔ Senate passes Freedman’s Bureau Bill which Johnson tries to veto, but can't
➔ Crop lein system and sharecropping are both pretty much repeat on slavery
➔ Force Acts tried to ban terror based on race and KKK
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➔ Chinese Exclusion Acts bans immigrants
➔ Immigration is high and Nativism is a thing so people aren’t a huge fan of the
newbies, many have to assimilate, stranger people began coming over rather
than just european whites, tenement housing is terrible progressives begin to
start things like the Hull House which gave immigrants place to live and learn
except still segregated
➔ Atlanta compromise: supported by Booker T. Washington The agreement was
that Southern blacks would work meekly and submit to white political rule,
while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and
due process in law. essentially a trade of pride for education and welfare.
opposed by WEB Dubois
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Document Summary
Jamestown is first in south 1607 in 1620 there is plymouth, jamestown does tobacco virginia"s house of burgesses, established in 1620, was the first body of self-government in english america. Plymouth creates mayflower compact to begin self governing. John rolfe developed form of tobacco that survives in virginia married. Mercantilism: market for mother countries goods and source for raw materials. Pinckney treaty opened new orleans to american trade, an important issue for. Pocahontas residents of the river valleys that emptied into the mississippi river, tj purchased louisiana from france as well. James madison leads country into war of 1812 after british impressment and. Adams-onis treaty purchased florida from spain attacks, treaty of ghent ends war establishes specific borders. Manifest destiny spurs western expansion in the the frontier most use oregon. Trail initially until pacific railway act when they take trains gold rush in 49. Stephen austin leads americans to texas and then they try to escape mexico.
