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- In an attempt to persuade Spain to leave Cuba or to encourage the United States to help Cuba to gain its independence, Cuban insurrectosa. attacked Spanish shipping on the high seas.b. blew up the battleship Maine.c. made guerilla raids on Havana.d. began assassinating Spanish officials.e. adopted a scorched-earth policy of burning cane fields and sugar mills.
- To Justify American intervention in the Venezuela boundary dispute with Britain, Secretary of State Olney invoked the
- When he was elected president, Herbert Hoover's previous experience in elected office was
- The McNary-Haugen Bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Coolidge was aimed to assist American farmers by
- The clash between Germany and America over the Samoan islands eventually resulted ina. a small naval war between the two emerging powers.b. a colonial division of the islands between Germany and the United States.c. complete independence for all of Samoa.d. the intervention of Japan to prevent a German-American war.e. a new American doctrine opposing any colonialism in the Pacific.
- American involvement in the affairs of Latin American nations at the turn of the century usually stemmed froma. the need to defend these nations against a reassertion of Spanish power.b. the hope that involvement would lead to their outright acquisition by the United States.c. the fact that they were chronically in debt.d. the desire to control the flow of Latin American immigrants into the United States.e. a desire to strengthen Latin American democracy.
- In the aftermath of the Boxer uprising, the United States used the indemnity that China was forced to pay to
- President McKinley justified American acquisition of the Philippines primarily by emphasizing that
- On the question of whether American laws applied to the overseas territory acquired in the Spanish-American War, the Supreme Court ruled thata. American laws did not necessarily apply.b. only the President's rulings counted and Congress had no voice in the matter.c. federal but not state laws applied.d. only tariff laws could be forced.e. only the Bill of Rights applied.
- The decade before the war saw his opposition to slavery and to the federal government reach its peak: The Liberator denounced the..., condemned the .., damned the Dred Scott decision, and hailed John Brown’s Harpers Ferry Raid as “God’s method of dealing retribution upon the head of the tyrant.”
- Garrison felt that slavery was a... issue and used his way of writing to appeal to the morality of his readers as an attempt to influence them into changing their morally questionable ways.
- The ..., Garrison believed, was a pact with the devil that ought to be immediately discarded for its unjust and unnecessary compromises with slavery. The ... was similarly tainted by the presence of slavery in the South and was not worth saving, so long as slavery continued to exist.
- From this blend of pacifism and anarchismcame the Garrisonian principle of “...,” formulated in 1844 as a demand for peaceful Northern secession from a slaveholding South.
- Common rhetoric: religious rhetoric with different interpretation of the Bible. All of them use the Constitution but use it ...
- He clarified, however, that he had never defended an ... right of a state to secede. Garrison argued that secession was justified only as a means to escape oppression, drawing parallels to the American Revolution.
- Vice President John C. Calhoun took the covert, and later overt, lead in the anti-tariff struggle. His ... doctrine of state interposition against the federal tariff delivered the state's first threat of secession from the Union.
- The Secession Convention delegates(convened in Columbia) named Robert Rhett and C. Memminger to write up the reasons for secession. Rhett wrote "The Address to the Slave-Holding States," and his central argument was based on the... Memminger, in his "Declaration of the Causes of Secession," took a more direct approach to the ...
- Stephen Hale (Deputy from ... to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862) from ... addresses the governor of Kentucky as a 'sister Southern state.' In his argument for secession, he focuses on the violations of the Constitution by the northern states. Magoffin, in his public letter, agreed with Hale that Lincoln was "dangerous." However, he argued that instead of secession, the Constitution and remaining in the Union better... It was a classic statement of Kentucky's proslavery loyalty.
- Influence of the Second Great Awakening: End if the 18th century - beginning of the 19th century.... revival. Influence of this religious movement...- belief that with the turn of the millennium Christ was going to come back on Earth and the coming of judgement day.>necessity to prepare and be good, doctrine of perfectionism. Slavery = sin that had to be washed off from society.
- ... black men in the Union who fought for the army