<p>no one wants to discuss the causes of the civil war? that’s saddening…</p>
<p>What did the Sherman Anti-trust act do?</p>
<p>It ended monopolies. But after the E.C. v. Knight case, it was only applied to commerce, not manufacturing. The Clayton Anti-Trust Act was later passed to strengthen it.</p>
<p>What was the Ballinger Pinchot Affair?</p>
<p>well for one…john brown and his attack of harpers ferry, compromise of 1850 which had the strenghted fugitive slave act</p>
<p>enzo are you from chile?</p>
<p>Pinchot Affair never heard of it. Could you explain in detail?</p>
<p>The Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy was a dispute between Richard A. Ballinger and Gifford Pinchot that helped lead to the split of the Republican Party.</p>
<p>In 1909, Taft replaced Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Interior, James R. Garfield, with Richard Ballinger. Ballinger tried to invalidate Roosevelt’s actions by taking almost 1 million acres (4,000 km²) of forestry and mineral reserves from public lands, and making them accessible for private development. Louis Glavis investigated this issue and took it to Gifford Pinchot, who was head of the Forest Service at the time. Pinchot carried over the evidence to President Taft. Taft ordered further investigation. In turn, the charges and evidence were nullified. Pinchot was still very angered by this, and turned the story over to the press. Pinchot then asked congress to investigate the issue. When President Taft found out about this, he discharged Pinchot due to insubordination. The congressional committee that was investigating the issue had pardoned Ballinger because it was led by the Old Right. By the end of the controversy, Taft had already removed almost all of Roosevelt’s supporters.</p>
<p>and no…try connecticut</p>
<p>Causes of civil war:</p>
<ol>
<li>well, slavery, for one, and it’s spread into the West- the north and south were always arguing which states should be slave or free
2.states’ rights</li>
<li>Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin got many northerners upset about slavery’s atrocities</li>
<li>Hinton Rowan Helper’s book Impending Crisis of the South, which was about how slavery was economically bad for the South, and only helped large plantation owners- got a lot of Congressmen to be angry, so that they had trouble organizing themselves</li>
<li>Lincoln winning the presidency</li>
</ol>
<p>TR had worked with Gifford Pinchot to conserve thousands of acres of land Pinchot had done this by reserving the acreage from sale. When Taft became President, Rich Ballinger, Secretary of teh Interior, decided that he would open several thousand acres that had already been reserved by Pinchot for sale. Pinchot was infuriated, with good reason, but Taft, instead of reprimanding Ballinger, fired Pinchot becaseu he protested. This angered Progressives…more than they already were…</p>
<p>The Pinchot Ballinger affair was something that involved Taft and Head of Forestry. In short, Taft fired him, and the people were not pleased.</p>
<p>What did the compromise of 1850 do?</p>
<p>ok thanks
How did the Payne-Aldrich tariff anger the Progressives?
Basically the last compromise.
First california accepted as free
New Mexico and Arizona will be decided by popular sovereignty
DC will no longer be used as a slave trade depot
more stringent fugitive slave laws(escaped slaves could be taken back any time anywhere, and the federal official made the decision. $5 if guilty $3 if not guilty was how much they were paid)
give disputed land to New Mexico but pay texas $10 billion</p>
<p>Other issues causing the Civil War:
Kansas Nebraska Act
Lecompton Controversy
“Bleeding” Kansas
Wilmot Proviso and the Free Soilers</p>
<p>Questions:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Causes of the Great Depression?</p></li>
<li><p>In what parts of the country did the Emancipation Proclamation free slaves?</p></li>
<li><p>What does “waving the bloody flag” mean?</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Payne-Aldrich Tariff was originally meant to lower tariffs but after passing in the House, Senator Aldrich “modified” it such that most tarriffs were actually raised and only tariffs on obscure things like bird-seed were lowered.</p>
<p>Progressives were against tariffs, because they mainly favored rich American manufacturers at the expense of consumers because of high prices of goods. When Taft campaigned as a progressive, he promised lower tariffs. However, conservative Republicans in Congress pushed for the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, and Taft not only signed it but publicly defended it. His support for this tariff, along with the Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy and other events that reflected his conservatism, angered and alienated his fellow Progressives. T.R, whom he had angered the most, joined the Bull Moose Party and ran against him in the election of 1912. </p>
<p>What were some failed attempts of U.S. expansion in the 19th century?
What were the Whigs and Democrats’ positions in slavery and expansion?</p>
<p>What did the compromise of 1850 do?</p>
<p>made by Henry Clay.</p>
<p>For the North:
- California admitted as a free state
- The disputed land between New Mexico and Texas allotted to New Mexico
- The status of slavery in New Mexico and Utah was to be determined by popular sovereignty
- slave trade abolished in D.C.</p>
<p>and the South…
- Fugitive Slave Act strengthened
- the federal government promised to pay Texas’s pre-annexation debt
- Congress no longer had any right to say anything over interstate slave trade
- Congress promised not to abolish slavery itself in D.C.</p>
<p>Ostend Manifesto - tried to buy Cuba from Spain but the scheme was revealed and failed
Walker Expedition - a guy tried to take over Nicaragua and make it a slave state but failed.,</p>
<p>WHigs - I think they were free-soilers
Democrats- well northern are free-soilers but southern are definitely for slavery. They split in the election of 1860</p>
<p>well, the whigs had the councious whigs who didnt want slavery in the north and the cotton whigs in the south that wanted slavery…in the 1850’s when the whig party split</p>
<p>what was Henry Clay’s American System?
what did it outline?</p>
<p>What were the Whigs and Democrats’ positions in slavery and expansion?</p>
<p>The Whigs consisted of mainly northerners, and some southerners. Because they wouldn’t take a firm stance on slavery and kept putting up war hero candidates, they ended up falling apart before the Civil War, and were replaced by republicans.</p>
<p>Democrats were mostly southerners, and pro-slavery.</p>