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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

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Created written Cherokee language

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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency

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Shortest presidency ever(32 days). 1st Whig pres

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Manifest Destiny

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Belief that US should expand boundaries to Pacific Ocean

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Texas Rebellion

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Texas people went against Mexican gov’t

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The Alamo – battle significance

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Santa Anna’s Mexico vs Travis Texans

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Davy Crockett

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Backwoods man from TN who volunteered to fight at the Alamo

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Oregon Trail

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Used by settlers migrating to Pacific Northwest

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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?

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Manifest destiny

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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession

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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

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First to discover gold in California

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Brigham Young

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Led Mormon migration to Utah

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Helps preserve Vance between the north and south

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John Brown

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Violent abolitionist that believed God chose him to end slavery

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Harriet Tubman

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Most famous conductor

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Underground Railroad

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Network of escape routes out of the south for enslaved people

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Frederick Douglass

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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

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Explained issue of slavery

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Fugitive Slave Act

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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

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Increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in US

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Bleeding Kansas

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Kansas became the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery

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Sumner-Brooks Incident

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Summer lashed out against those for slavery including Andrew p butler

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Raid on Harper’s Ferry

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John Brown led 18 men on a raid to attack a weapon storage facility

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Dred Scott v Sandford

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Dred-Slavs against his owner Stanford

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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech

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Senate race in Illinois that became the center of national attention

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Election of 1860

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Lincoln wins 16th pres. New nation wants to form

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Causes of the Civil War

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Fort Sumter was fired upon. Slavery

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Fort Sumter

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Marked beginning of the civil war

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Ulysses S. Grant

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General for Union

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Robert E. Lee

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General for Confederates

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Stonewall Jackson

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Most gifted tactical commanders in Us history

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First Battle of Bull Run

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First major battle of bull run.

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Anaconda Plan

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Union war plan to defeat the south by dividing them in 2

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54th Massachusetts

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Most well known black regiment

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The Battle of Gettysburg

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Turning point of civil war. Pickets charge

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The Battle of Vicksburg

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Turning point of civil war

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Sherman’s march to sea

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After burning Atlanta, they start marching to Savannah

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Lee Surrendering to Grant

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April 9, 1865. At Appomattox courthouse

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13th Amendment

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Abolished slavery. 1865

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14th Amendment

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Gave full citizenship to blacks born in US.1866

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15th Amendment

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Gave blacks right to vote in 1870

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Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death

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Fords theatre. John Wilkes booth. Petersen house

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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction

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10-Lincoln forgives south

Rr-wanted a harsher read mission process

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Freedman’s Bureau

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Agency that helped blacks make transition to freedom

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Segregation

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Separation of races

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Jim Crow Laws

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Required blacks and whites to be separated in almost every public post

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Ku Klux Klan

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Largest anti African American terrorist organization in south

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