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- Richard Allen founded the _________ in Philadelphia, a separate black Christian denomination.
- The black church was the center of the free black community, and the spirituality it expressed was a this-worldly faith. Formal black churches began with small informal groups meeting for worship in peoples' homes, with Sunday school classes, with a core of black worshipers relegated to a corner or gallery in predominantly white churches, or in the camp meetings or revival weeks held by evangelical sects. The black church became a sanctuary from oppresion where the spirits of God and the ancestors who had suffered through two hundred years of slavery and discrimination in American could be called on to give guidance, strength, and support to members of the congregation."-Source: James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, historians, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860, 1998 The excerpt most strongly supports which of the following arguments about the role churches played in the abolition movement?
- The person who created the image below was likely (horrid massacre of virginia pic)
- Which American General and furture President should you associate with this image? (pic of southwest US during mexican american war)
- After the two nations made peace by signing the _______________ in mid 1848, the United States gained over a million square miles of new territory, a landmass larger than the Louisiana Purchase.
- The K-N Act stipulated that the settlers of the Kansas territory would vote on whether to permit slavery. Pro- and antislavery activists quickly flooded Kansas with the intention of influencing the vote on slavery. Proslavery Missourians who crossed the border to vote in Kansas became known as __________ .
- He planned to raid the federal armory at ____________ where he aimed to steal weapons and arm enslaved people for an insurrection. The raid was put down by proslavery militiamen and US Marines commanded by General Robert E. Lee, who would go on to become the commander of the Confederate Army. Brown was captured, convicted of treason, and hanged.
- Proslavery Missourians helped to secure a proslavery legislature in Kansas, which drafted a proslavery constitution known as the ____________.
- For the United States government, the addition of this new territory was political kryptonite. Both Northerners and Southerners were convinced that the opposite region was conspiring to limit their economic opportunities in the West. During the war, Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania introduced a resolution in the House that would prohibit slavery in any territory gained from the conflict. The reaction to the Wilmot Priviso showed just how big the sectional divide in the country was becoming, since party lines broke down entirely. Northerners, Whig, and Democrat alike voted for the Wilmot Proviso, and Southerners, Whig, and Democrat alike voted against it. Ultimately, the proviso passed in the House was defeated in the Senate. And then gold was discovered in California, just before the end of the war, sending hordes of prospectors West and making statehood for California an urgent issue that would soon upset the balance of power between free and slave states in Congress. In other words, we can draw a direct line from the Mexican War to the breakdown of the second party system, which was replaced by a solidly ____________and a ______________, and from there to the Civil War.
- Despite Polk's war message saying that American blood had been shed on American soil, many US politicians were also skeptical about who started the war and where. A young Whig congressman from Illinois named ___________demanded that Polk show him the exact spot where American blood had been shed.
- _____________________ aimed to preserve Western lands for small white farmers.
- So what is something the Abolitionists were angry about in the Compromise of 1850?
- The class system in the South was extremely rigid and aristocratic, not far off from ____________.
- Southern sociologist George Fitzhugh argued that poor whites should be enslaved in addition to people of African descent in order to protect them from being eaten alive in the free market.Selected:
- Congress avoided a direct decision on the question of slavery in the new Territory of New Mexico and the Territory of Utah, employing the principle of ___________ . This allowed white residents of the territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery.
- The person with the cane attacking the other is _______________________.
- Sam Houston led his forces to defeat Santa Anna's army at the ____________, and forced Santa Anna to recognize Texan independence.
- He called the issue of having slavery "like holding a wolf by the ears. You can't hold onto it, but you can't let it go." Who is "he?"
- He becomes this very famous legislator because he's good at compromising. He's called the "Great Compromiser". Who is "he?"
- The issue of whether to permit slavery in the territories organized in this new land consumed Congress at the end of the 1840s. During the war, Congressman David Wilmot introduced the _________, a proposal to ban slavery in any new territory acquired from Mexico. The measure passed in the House of Representatives but failed in the Senate.