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The sewing machine
The mechanical cotton-picker
The cotton gin
The steamboat
Increasing immigration of laborers from Europe
A dependence on the North for trade and manufacturing
A stable system of credit and finance
A relatively equal distribution of property and wealth
They were bribed by the planter class
The enjoyed the economic benefits of slavery
They felt radically superior to blacks and hoped to be able to buy slaves
The disliked the northern abolitionists
Considerably better in the North than in the South
Notably improving in the decades before the Civil War
As bad or worse in the North than in the South
Politically threatened but economically secure
Objects to be beaten and brutalized as often as possible
Economically profitable investments
Members of their extended family
Potential converts to evangelical Christianity
A desire to create an independent black republic in Africa
Anger at the negative economic consequences of slavery
Religious feeling against the "sin" of slavery
A philosophical commitment to racial integration
A curse on their religion
A necessary evil
A positive good
A threat to their social ideals
American involvement in Canadian rebellions and border disputes
Britain support for American abolitionists
American anger at British default on canal and railroad systems
American intervention in the British West Indies
Waging a constant war against Mexico
Refusing to sign treaties with any outside powers
Relying on the military power of the United States
Establishing friendly relations with Britain and other European powers
The Mexican War
The Texans' willingness to abandon slavery
President Tyler's interpretation of the election of 1844 as a "mandate" to acquire Texas
A compromise agreement with Britain
A rapidly growing number of American settlers overwhelmed the small British population
The British recognized the greater validity of American legal claims on the territory
Superior American naval forces made the British position in the region untenable
An international arbitration commission ruled in favor of the American claims
An American success in winning the goal of a boundary at "fifty-four forty"
An agreement to continue the joint occupation of Oregon for twenty years more
A compromise agreement on a border at the forty-ninth parallel
An outbreak of war between the two nations
President Polk's message asking Congress to declare war on Mexico "on the spot"
The amendment introduced after the Mexican War declaring that not one new spot of land be open to slavery
Congressman Abraham Lincoln's resolution demanding to know the exact spot of American soil where American blood had been shed
The congressional act determining which spots of Mexican land should be ceded to the United States
A return to the status quo that had existed before the war
The eventual American acquisition of all of all of Mexico
American acquisition of about half of Mexico and payment of several million dollars in compensation
The acquisition of California and joint U.S.-Mexican control of Arizona and New Mexico
A strong proslavery stance by the Democrats and a strong antislavery stance by the whigs
Platforms stressing both parties' clear differences with the antislavery Free Soil party
An attempt to ignore the issue
To free each individual candidate to take his own stand on the issue
The territory was in a condition of complete lawlessness and anarchy
The Mexicans were threatening renewed warfare if California joined the Union
California's admission as a free state would destroy the equal balance of slave and free states in the senate
There was a growing movement to declare California an independent nation
William Seward and Zachary Taylor
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
John C. Calhoun and Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas and Harriet Tubman
California was admitted to the Union as a free state, and slavery in Utah and New Mexico territories would be left up to popular sovereignty
California was admitted as a free state, and Utah and New Mexico as slave states
California, Utah, and New Mexico were kept as territories but with slavery prohibited
New Mexico and Texas were admitted as slave states and Utah and California as free states
The North
The South
Neither the North nor the South
The border states
The death of the Whig party
The death of the Democratic party
The death of the Republican party
The rise of the Free Soil party
Establishing a balance of power in East Asia
Opening Japan to American trade
Guaranteeing the territorial integrity of China
Establishing American naval bases in Hawaii and Okinawa
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