HIST 2055 : AMERICAN HISTORY TEST 3
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Demographic and social change: immigration, the potato famine in ireland led to many irish immigrants going to. Revival, reform, and the counter-culture: reform movements and modernization, communications revolution and middle class, piety and practicality: religious revival and economic growth. Mexico: congress becomes a very violent place after this, southerners can"t allow this if slavery can be regulated it can eventually be ended, every time polk tries to pass something from now on, wilmot. Slavery: the south"s peculiar institution: slavery by the numbers, slavery and its consequences, the defense of the indefensible. Knocked up a girl and left her, ran off to louisiana (hay!) Story takes place in la: southerners burned it, linccoln told her: you"re the little lady who started this war , book was infamous. Kansas-nebraska act, 1854: why kansas bled: election of 1852, winfield scott (whig) vs. franklin pierce (democrat,