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Robert fulton

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Designed worlds first steamboat

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Steamboat

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Seagoing vessel from a steam powered engine

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Erie canal

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Waterway connecting Hudson r with lake erie

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Eli Whitney

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Cotton gin, interchangeable parts

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Cotton gin

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Separates cotton seeds

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Mechanics

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Machines

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Market revolution

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Theory that us shifted from traditional to modern free market

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Middle class

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Composed of business and professional people, bureaucrats

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Division of labor

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Separation of a work process into a number of tasks so it can specialized

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Industrial revolution

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Transition from creating goods by hand to machines

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Mills girls

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Young yankee women who worked in factories

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Unions

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Association of workers in a particular trade

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Nativism

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Beliefs favoring the interests of est. inhabitants against immigrants

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Gibbons v. Ogden

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Commerce clause, states can’t interfere w/ power of congress to regulate commerce

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Commonwealth v. Hunt

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Est. legality of labor unions and the legality of union workers striking if an employer hired non union workers

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Nativist movement

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Viewed immigrants as unable to become Americans

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Manifest destiny

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Americans have a God given right to conquer

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Transcendentalists

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Each person has direct communication with God

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Led the transcendentalists movement

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Henry David Thoreau

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Started civil disobedience, refused to pay toll tax

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Second great awakening

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Protestant revival movement, improve society (lifestyles)

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Individualism

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Coined by Alexis de tocqueville, belief in freedom

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Self made man

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Men who rose up to wealth from humble origins

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Cult of domesticity

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Emphasized femininity and woman’s role n the household

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Franchise

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The right to vote

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American system

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A govt sponsored program to harmonize and balance the natio s agriculture, commerce, and industry

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Henry clay

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Senator from Kentucky, created the Missouri compromise (great pacificator, compromiser)

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Tariff of 1816

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1st protective tariff, encourage Americans to buy goods made in us

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Second bank of the United states

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Held federal tax receipts and regulated money

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Panic of 1819

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Financial panic, unemployment, agricultural halved

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Mcculloch v. Maryland

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Inferior status of state laws in relation to federal laws

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Era of good feelings

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Collapse of federalist party

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Missouri compromise

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Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non slave state

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Monroe doctrine

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Further colonization by Europe in the western hemisphere would b considered a hostile act

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35
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Martin van Buren

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8th president, passed the divorce bill

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Spoils system

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Gave govt jobs to political supporters regardless of qualifications

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John c. Calhoun

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V prez under Jackson, defended slavery

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Tariff of abominations

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Raised costs of imported goods to support growing domestic industries

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Nullification crisis

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South Carolina wanted to declare null and void because of tariffs

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Indian removal act

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Removed all Indians east of the Mississippi to another territory

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Worcester v. Georgia

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Court invalidated Georgia laws that regulated us citizens access to Cherokee country

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Trail of tears

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Cherokee Indians were forced to travel from north Carolina and Georgia to Oklahoma

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Bank war

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Battle between Jackson and supporters of bus

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Whig party

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Party oppose of Jackson and democrats

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Panic of 1837

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Caused by falling demand of cotton

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The peculiar institution

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Reference to slavery

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Upper south

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Region of tobacco, vegetable hemp, wheat growers

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Lower south

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Cotton most dominant

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King cotton

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Term used by Southern authors

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Fugitive slaves

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Runaway slaves

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Underground railroad

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Network that helped runaway slaves escape

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Harriet tubman

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Conductor who helped slaves escaped

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The amistad

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Spanish slave ship seized by slaves

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Nat turners rebellion

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Unsuccessful attempt to overthrow planter families

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Brook farm

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Utopian experiment, prepare a society of liberal people

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Temperance

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Combat drinking problems of men

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Common schools

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Tax supported public state schools, public education

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American colonization society

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Attempted to start a colony in West Africa where free blacks could return back home

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Abolitionism

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Movement in opposition to slavery

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William Lloyd garrison

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Creator of the liberator and founder of thr American antislavery society

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The liberator

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First antislavery newspaper

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American anti slavery society

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Organization that advocated the immediate abolition of slavery

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Uncle Tom’s cabin

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Novel written by beecher, portrayed slave life in the south

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Dorothea dix

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Treated the insane

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Organized the 1st convention on women’s rights, declaration of sentiments

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Seneca falls convention

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Discussion of rights and conditions of women

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Women suffrage

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The right to vote for women

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Fifty four forty or fight

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Us ought to claim all the territory up to 54 degrees and 40 mins north parallel or fight Gb for the land

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Mexican American war

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Conflict between Mexico and America

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Gadsden purchase

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10 million for land south of the gila River

71
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Mexican cession

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Land that mexico gave to us

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Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo

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Peace Treaty between us and mexico that ended the Mexican American war

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Gold rush

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Mass immigration to California in search of gold

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Oregon trail

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Overland route to western us

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Wilmot proviso

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Unsuccessful addition to a bill, complete ban of slavery

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Free soil party

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To support the Wilmot proviso

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Compromise of 1850

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California wanted to be a free state, caused tension

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Fugitive slave act

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Crime to help slaves

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Stephan a. Douglas

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Made the Kansas Nebraska act

80
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Popular sovereignty

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People of the territory should determine themselves the status of slavery within their territory

81
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Kansas Nebraska act

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Allowed popular sovereignty

82
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Republican party

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Northern us

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Bleeding kansas

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Violent conflict in Kansas because of slavery

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Charles sumner

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Got beaten in the head by brooks

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Roger taney

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Jurist, slaves weren’t citizens

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

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Since slaves are property they can’t be granted freedom when moved to a free state

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Lincoln Douglas debates

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Focused on slavery topics

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John brown

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Gave land to fugitive slaves

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Election of 1860

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Lincoln won on a four way contest

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