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So if the 1830s was the “Decade of Discovery,” what was the decade of expansion – the decade when the United States acquired and began to settle vast amounts of new territory?

When Alexander Hamilton said “I sincerely esteem it a system which without the finger of God never could have been suggested and agreed upon” he was writing in reference to

What was the last successful compromise before the Civil War, and which of the following is NOT one of its provisions?

Lower South states include Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky.

The argument put forward in class lectures tended to argue that North and South were so culturally and socially different that it was extraordinarily difficult for the two to cooperate and co-exist peacefully over the long term. In this regard, the class has agreed with the “irrepressible conflict” interpretation of the Civil War.

In your own words, describe the Wilmot Proviso and explain what was so unnerving about it  when it came up for a vote in Congress in 1846.

Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln were both Republicans and therefore members of the same political party.

William Ellison was a free black planter in the Old South, noted for his great wealth.

The decision to permit freedom of religion, the decision to eliminate royalty and nobles, the decision to elevate women and free slaves, the decision to create a republic.  These choices are associated with what period of American history?

The class noted that Old South culture was class-oriented, suspicious of the outside world, somewhat uneducated, and underdeveloped.  This recalled what other period/culture covered in class, and what does this suggest?