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This is Sutter’s Mill, near Sacramento, California.  Why is this place of significance to US history?

What are we looking at here?   

Lectures noted that the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy was careful never to mention slavery.   This was so the southern nation could attract trade partners with nations that banned slavery.

Why did the lecture argue that James Polk was a dangerous president?

In the Civil War in the East, Robert E. Lee successfully defended Richmond for years against northern attacks, despite being outnumbered and outgunned.

What terrible event turned George Washington into the calm, remarkable leader beloved in the United States to this day?

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 the Civil War in the East, Robert E. Lee successfully defended Richmond for years against northern attacks, despite being outnumbered and outgunned.

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.

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