Create your own flash cards! 01/05/2013 . Cards Return to Set Details. An Autobiography: XII. Hone your historical thinking skills and explore US history from the colonial period to the present with the most thorough AP® US History review course out there. Nicknamed "Old Fuss and Feathers",Party that garnered 5% of the Northern vote,Treaty that erased U.S. and British tensions and said neither the U.S. or Britain would take over the area without the other's agreement,a conspiracy theory where the South was supposedly always seeking to add new slave lands,said the U.S. would offer $120 million for Cuba, and if Spain rejected it, the U.S. would be justified in taking Cuba by force.Sent by President Tyler to China to work a favorable deal to the U.S.got Japan to open itself to trade in the Treaty of Kanagawa,Perry got Japan to open up to U.S. to trade,sent to Mexico to work a deal for the land,bought the southern chunk of present Arizona and New Mexico for $10 million,proposed to organize Kansas and Nebraska and move the transcontinental railroad up north,In politics, the right of a people to assert its own national identity or form of government without outside influence,A family home or farm with buildings and land sufficient for survival,Concerning groups that claim to punish crime and maintain order without legal authority to do so,place of refuge or protection, where people are safe from punishment by the law,A person who flees from danger or prosecution,The precise surface features and details of a place - for example, rivers, bridges, hills - inrelation to one another,Belonging to this world, as opposed to the spiritual world,Concerning a narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land,Adventurers who conduct a private war against a foreign country,A title of the Japanese emperor used by foreigners,Concerning the activities of spies or undercover agents, especially involving elaborate deceptions,A proclamation or document aggressively asserting a controversial position or advocating a daring course of action,One who promotes a person or enterprise, especially in a highly enthusiastic way,A temporary suspension of warfare by agreement of the hostile parties,Illinois politician who helped smooth over sectional conflict in 1850 but then reignited it in 1854,Weak Democratic president hose pro-soutthern cabinet pushed aggresive expansionist schemes,Place wehre the slave trade was ended by the Compromise of 1850,Hotheaded southern agitators who pushed for southern interests and favored secession from the Union,The boundary line between slave and free states in the East, originally the southern border of Pennsylvania,An agreement between Britain and America concerning any future Central American canal,A top-secret dispatch, drawn up by American diplomats in Europe, that detailed a plan for seizing Cuba from Spain,The sectional agreement of 1820, repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act,The political party that was deeply divided by Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act,A new political party organized as a protest against the Kansas-Nebraska Act,The conflict over slavery after the election of 1852 led shortly to the death of this party,The greatest winner in the Compromise of 1850,Under the terms of the Compromise of 1850, the state that was admitted as a free state,Under the terms of the Compromise of 1850, the states that slavery was left up to popular sovereignty,The two notable advocates of compromise in the controversy over slavery in 1850,During the debate over the Compromise of 1850, northern antislavery forces were particularly outraged by what they considered the "betrayal" of this senator.Act wrecked the Compromise of 1850 and created deep divisions within the Democratic Party. So you persuade yourself that, actually, government services, things like spending on education, which is what created that social mobility in the first place, need to be cut so that the deficit will shrink, so that your tax bill doesn't go up. Subject. • Texas was paid $10 million for land lost APUSH Unit 6. For powerful businesspeople, see,CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (,See also the Chrystia Freeland interview for the Moyers Book Club (12 October 2012),Income inequality in the United States § Effects on democracy and society,the US may be drifting towards a form of oligarchy,"America is a plutocracy masquerading as a democracy","Jimmy Carter on Whether He Could Be President Today: "Absolutely Not,"Paul Volcker, at 91, Sees 'a Hell of a Mess in Every Direction,"Elite Formation, Power and Space in Contemporary London","The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London is ripe for protest","Labour runs in City of London poll against 'get-rich' bankers","Roosevelt, Theodore.