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Election of 1800

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John Adams vs Thomas Jefferson. 2 candidates had 73 electoral votes:Jefferson and Aaron burr

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Louisiana Purchase

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France sold the territory for 5 million. Doubled size of US(30,000) square miles. Federalist a threatened to secede

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Sent on a journey to explore the new territory

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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Impressment-act of forcing Americans to work in britishs navy
Ship was intercepted by a British vessel demanding to search for dissenters

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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Pushed for war with GB(Henry clay and John Calhoun

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War of 1812 – DC burned, Fort McHenry, Battle of New Orleans

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Dooley Madison saved George washing tons portrait from being burned
McHenry-Baltimore harbor-Francis Scott key wrote star spangled banner
NO-took place right after Treaty of Ghent

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The Star Spangled Banner

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Francis Scott key wrote this

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Monroe Doctrine

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Western Hemisphere was no longer open for colonization

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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Destroyed potatoes (way of life)

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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Seneca falls NY for women’s suffrage

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Industrial Revolution

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Change from agrarian to industry society

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Capitalism

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Economic system in which people and companies own the means of production

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Free Enterprise System

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People r free to buy sell and produce whatever they want

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Supply and Demand

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How much of an item and how much they wanted

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Number One Crop in the South in the 1800’s

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Cotton

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Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin – what it did and why that was important

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Made making cotton easier and came to the interchangeable parts. Supposed to make making cotton easier and increase production

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Urban vs Rural

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U-city/town

Rural-countryside

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Wilderness Road

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Kentucky from Atlantic coast

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Daniel Boone

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Long hunter. Blazed trail for the wilderness road

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Cumberland gap

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Made passing thru the Appalachian mountains easier

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The Corrupt Bargain

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Speaker of house(Henry clay) meets with Adams and agrees to use his influence to help Adams get the vote in the HoR

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Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank

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Ss-replacing gov’t employees with new winning candidate

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Indian Removal Act

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Relocated Indians

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Trail of Tears

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Relocation and movement of Indians from Georgia to Oklahoma

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Sequoyah
Created written Cherokee language
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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency
Shortest presidency ever(32 days). 1st Whig pres
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Manifest Destiny
Belief that US should expand boundaries to Pacific Ocean
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Texas Rebellion
Texas people went against Mexican gov't
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The Alamo – battle significance
Santa Anna's Mexico vs Travis Texans
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Davy Crockett
Backwoods man from TN who volunteered to fight at the Alamo
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Oregon Trail
Used by settlers migrating to Pacific Northwest
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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?
Manifest destiny
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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession
Mexico border- nueces river Us border- rio grande Mc- ceded California and NM for 15 million
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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush
First to discover gold in California
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Brigham Young
Led Mormon migration to Utah
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Helps preserve Vance between the north and south
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John Brown
Violent abolitionist that believed God chose him to end slavery
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Harriet Tubman
Most famous conductor
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Underground Railroad
Network of escape routes out of the south for enslaved people
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Frederick Douglass
Most famous abolitionist. North Star. Injustice of slavery destroyed Americas ideals of freedom
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Explained issue of slavery
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Fugitive Slave Act
Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850. If they didn't they could be fined or imprisoned
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in US
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Bleeding Kansas
Kansas became the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery
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Sumner-Brooks Incident
Summer lashed out against those for slavery including Andrew p butler
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Raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown led 18 men on a raid to attack a weapon storage facility
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Dred Scott v Sandford
Dred-Slavs against his owner Stanford
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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech
Senate race in Illinois that became the center of national attention
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Election of 1860
Lincoln wins 16th pres. New nation wants to form
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Causes of the Civil War
Fort Sumter was fired upon. Slavery
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Fort Sumter
Marked beginning of the civil war
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Ulysses S. Grant
General for Union
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Robert E. Lee
General for Confederates
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Stonewall Jackson
Most gifted tactical commanders in Us history
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First Battle of Bull Run
First major battle of bull run.
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Anaconda Plan
Union war plan to defeat the south by dividing them in 2
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54th Massachusetts
Most well known black regiment
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The Battle of Gettysburg
Turning point of civil war. Pickets charge
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The Battle of Vicksburg
Turning point of civil war
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Sherman’s march to sea
After burning Atlanta, they start marching to Savannah
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Lee Surrendering to Grant
April 9, 1865. At Appomattox courthouse
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13th Amendment
Abolished slavery. 1865
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14th Amendment
Gave full citizenship to blacks born in US.1866
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15th Amendment
Gave blacks right to vote in 1870
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Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death
Fords theatre. John Wilkes booth. Petersen house
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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction
10-Lincoln forgives south | Rr-wanted a harsher read mission process
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Freedman’s Bureau
Agency that helped blacks make transition to freedom
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Segregation
Separation of races
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Jim Crow Laws
Required blacks and whites to be separated in almost every public post
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Ku Klux Klan
Largest anti African American terrorist organization in south

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