HY 103 FINAL EXAMS ACTUAL ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
Sutter's Mill - ✔✔-saw mill owned by john sutter where gold was found
-sparked california gold rush
✔✔Lewis Cass - ✔✔-1848 Democratic candidate known as the Father of Popular
Sovereignty
✔✔Zachary Taylor - ✔✔-many victories in mexican american war
-whig/antislavery
-married a girl from wealthy southern family
-admitted california and new mexico into union
✔✔Compromise of 1850 - ✔✔-California admitted as free state
-territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico
-resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries
-federal assumption of Texas debt
-slave trade abolished in DC
-new fugitive slave law
-advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
✔✔Henry Clay - ✔✔-secretary of state
-compromise of 1850
-aided nullification crisis
✔✔John Calhoun - ✔✔-father of nullification
-pro slavery
✔✔Personal Liberty Laws - ✔✔-no person could be removed from PA to be sold as a
slave
-to counteract fugitive slave acts
✔✔Uncle Tom's Cabin - ✔✔-fictional work depicting evils of slavery
, -by Harriet Beacher Stowe
-made into a stage production--> marketed towards rich white people
-further reaching than actual slave narratives
-"little book that started the big war"
✔✔Stephen Douglas - ✔✔-senator from Illinois
-"little giant of Illinois"
-breaks up Clay's compromise of 1850 and passes them all through separately
-ran against Lincoln for president
-kills the whig party over northern RR route
-Kansas-Nebraska act
✔✔Kansas-Nebraska Act - ✔✔-gave states popular sovereignty to decide if free or
slave state
✔✔Charles Sumner - ✔✔-Radical Republican against slavery who insults Andrew Butler
and subsequently gets caned on house floor
✔✔Freeport Doctrine - ✔✔-slavery could not exist in a community if the local citizens
did not pass and enforce laws for maintaining it
-requires popular sovereignty
-stephen douglas
✔✔Dred Scott v. Sanford - ✔✔-verdict: slaves cannot sue because they are property
-Scott lived freely for 20 years, argued should not have to return to slavery
✔✔Panic of 1857 - ✔✔-short recession, over by '59
-mainly affected north, led to southern "king cotton"
-due to overconfidence in CA gold, western expansion etc
✔✔Hinton R. Helper - ✔✔-wrote the Impending crisis
-goes west for gold rush, but fails
-from North Carolina
-believes slavery is bad for poor southern white
-kidnapped and killed by southerners
-still very racist
✔✔The Impending Crisis - ✔✔-slavery is bad for poor whites
-white people are better than black people
-banned in the south
✔✔"King Cotton" speech - ✔✔-argument that cotton is what keeps the united states
economy running
-sparked by panic of '57
-the northerners are stupid and the southerners always have to step in and save them
QUESTIONS SET A+
Sutter's Mill - ✔✔-saw mill owned by john sutter where gold was found
-sparked california gold rush
✔✔Lewis Cass - ✔✔-1848 Democratic candidate known as the Father of Popular
Sovereignty
✔✔Zachary Taylor - ✔✔-many victories in mexican american war
-whig/antislavery
-married a girl from wealthy southern family
-admitted california and new mexico into union
✔✔Compromise of 1850 - ✔✔-California admitted as free state
-territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico
-resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries
-federal assumption of Texas debt
-slave trade abolished in DC
-new fugitive slave law
-advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
✔✔Henry Clay - ✔✔-secretary of state
-compromise of 1850
-aided nullification crisis
✔✔John Calhoun - ✔✔-father of nullification
-pro slavery
✔✔Personal Liberty Laws - ✔✔-no person could be removed from PA to be sold as a
slave
-to counteract fugitive slave acts
✔✔Uncle Tom's Cabin - ✔✔-fictional work depicting evils of slavery
, -by Harriet Beacher Stowe
-made into a stage production--> marketed towards rich white people
-further reaching than actual slave narratives
-"little book that started the big war"
✔✔Stephen Douglas - ✔✔-senator from Illinois
-"little giant of Illinois"
-breaks up Clay's compromise of 1850 and passes them all through separately
-ran against Lincoln for president
-kills the whig party over northern RR route
-Kansas-Nebraska act
✔✔Kansas-Nebraska Act - ✔✔-gave states popular sovereignty to decide if free or
slave state
✔✔Charles Sumner - ✔✔-Radical Republican against slavery who insults Andrew Butler
and subsequently gets caned on house floor
✔✔Freeport Doctrine - ✔✔-slavery could not exist in a community if the local citizens
did not pass and enforce laws for maintaining it
-requires popular sovereignty
-stephen douglas
✔✔Dred Scott v. Sanford - ✔✔-verdict: slaves cannot sue because they are property
-Scott lived freely for 20 years, argued should not have to return to slavery
✔✔Panic of 1857 - ✔✔-short recession, over by '59
-mainly affected north, led to southern "king cotton"
-due to overconfidence in CA gold, western expansion etc
✔✔Hinton R. Helper - ✔✔-wrote the Impending crisis
-goes west for gold rush, but fails
-from North Carolina
-believes slavery is bad for poor southern white
-kidnapped and killed by southerners
-still very racist
✔✔The Impending Crisis - ✔✔-slavery is bad for poor whites
-white people are better than black people
-banned in the south
✔✔"King Cotton" speech - ✔✔-argument that cotton is what keeps the united states
economy running
-sparked by panic of '57
-the northerners are stupid and the southerners always have to step in and save them
