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State Authority: What is the proper balance between national and state governments? Description How did the following events impact the balance of power between national and state governments? Secession/Civil War The south wanted to succeed from the Union in response to Abraham Lincoln from being elected 11 Southern States succeeded first The national gov't trying to make everything better and bring the South back to the Union. The National gov't got more power because they had the ruling on how to reconstruct the South The balance of National and state power were messed up due to 11 Southern states succeeding without the consent of the National gov't

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Radical Reconstruction

Unit 4 Jim Crow laws State and local laws that were Local or state gov't had more racist to African Americans power due to the nat'l gov't not and promoted segration approving this law

Unit 4 Presidential Power: How much power should the President have? President -Must include, but not limited to. Actions Taken How the role of the president changed.

Lincoln -War Powers

Lincoln wanted to bring the Union back together

Lincoln locked up people for talking about the slave issue and denied their basic rights

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Made the war about Emancipation

Civil Rights What is an American? Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. How have the citizens of America gone about correcting the wrongs of the past to ensure equality for all? Event /Date
1848-Seneca Falls Convention Group-American Women Unit 4

Crisis
A meeting by women trying to get civil right or suffrage in Seneca Falls, NY

Outcome
Women got recognition for their meeting and got the word put about women's right

1857-Dred Scott Decision Group- Abolitionists and African Americans

People of African descent brought into the US could not be US citizens

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Abolitionists were infuriated, and the North generally was baffled and frustrated, leading Lincoln and Douglas to argue this question in a series of public debates.

1861- Suspension of Habeas Corpus Group- Confederate sympathizers in the Border States

Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in response to riots, local militia actions, and the threat that the border slave state of Maryland would secede from the Union,

Many people lost basic rights and got imprisoned for talking about the issue of slavery

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Social/Cultural Movements Term Cult of Seneca Falls Convention Unit 4 Description women were supposed Meeting by Women in the Seneca Falls area to discuss about women's rights Individuals/Groups Upper and Middle class organized by local New York women Impact on Society affected married The convention got the word out about womans rights through reporters

Abolition

Banned slavery in the United states

Slaves

South's economy was destroyed due to the slaves being the labor force on the plantation

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Transcende ntalism Unit 4

group of ideas in literature and philosophy that developed in the 1830s and 1840s in the New England region

American intellectuals

Influenced movements such as the New Thought Movement

Mormons

Religious cultural Church of Jesus Christ group started by of Latter-Day Saints Joseph Smith and is a sect of Christianity

Pioneered west and settled on the western territory of Utah

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Temperance Unit 4

social movement urging reduced use of alcoholic beverages

American Temperance Society

Many groups rallied for temperance and this leads to Prohibition in the early 1900's

Antebellum Reforms Unit 4

Events such as The 2nd Great Awakening, Mormon pioneering, and Spiritualism

Charles G. Finney, Brigham Young, Mother Ann Lee, Joe Smith

stimulated the establishment of many reform movements designed to remedy the evils of society

Foreign Policy: What is the proper role of the US in the world? Term Manifest Destiny (include Mexican American War) Unit 4 Description Impact on Americas Role in the World

Coined in by James K. The U.S gained western lands and Polk that America is connected the U.S from the Atlantic to the destined by God to settle Pacific and control the west

Partisan Politics: How has political dissention impacted American politics and society? Description Mexican War Mexican soldiers attacked American soldiers. Polk wanted western lands which included some of Mexico's territory Consequences Nueces River became border for Mexico and the U.S and U.S got the land they wanted

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Manifest Destiny

Coined by James K. Polk and America's destiny to settle and control western lands

America got into 54 40 or fight, Mexican war and got western lands that connected both oceans

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Compromise of 1850

Unit 4 Election of 1860

package of six bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free stvates of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War Lincoln won the presidency

avoided secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years.

11 southern states succeeded from the Union when Lincoln got elected

Unit 4 Compromise of 1877 the Corrupt Bargain settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election and ended Congressional ("Radical") Reconstruction Removed troops in the South and appointed ex-officials back to office and stop reconstruction

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