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Election of 1800

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The first peaceful transition of political power between opposing parties in U.S history

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Louisiana Purchase

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Gave the US control of the Mississippi River

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Expedition through the Louisiana territory to the Pacific Ocean

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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Causes war of 1812

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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Henry clay and john c calhoun

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

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Causes we’re impressment of solders and attack on Chesapeake

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The Star Spangled Banner

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Song made for the US flag

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Monroe Doctrine

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Meant to stop European influence in America

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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The potatoes got a disease and they had to move bc people who were eating them were dying

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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After she helped organize the worlds first woman’s rights convention

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Industrial Revolution

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Transition to new manufacturing processes

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Capitalism

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Economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners

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Free Enterprise System

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Govt makes few restrictions on businesses and is a “free market”

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Supply and Demand

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An amount of the thing yo can buy

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Number One Crop in the South in the 1800’s

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Cotten

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

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It made cotton materials and important so it was quicker to sell or make things

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Urban vs Rural

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Urban is more cities and rural is more lower level of living

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Wilderness Road

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Road maid to make it easier to go through mountains and open the door to the settlement

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Daniel Boone

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Long hunter and an American wilderness explorer

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Cumberland Gap

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Allowed for a path to b created in the Appalachian mountains

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The Corrupt Bargain

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When the 1824 election ended without any candidate receiving a majority votes

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Indian Removal Act

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Had the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands

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Trail of Tears

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Series of forced relocations of Native American people from there ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States, to Indian territories

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Sequoyah

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Cherokee silversmiths

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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency
Shortest presidency
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Manifest Destiny
Belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American Continents was both justified and inevitable
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Texas Rebellion
Rebellion of colonists from the United States
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The Alamo – battle significance
Many things were invented that we use now days
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Davy Crockett
Frointeers man. Soldiers and politicians
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Oregon Trail
Trail used by many American pioneers
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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what
The growth of American by 1/3
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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush
John stutters land was where they first found gold which so only turned into the California god rush
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Brigham Young
American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
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John Brown
Violent abolitionist that beloved god sent him to end slavery
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Harriet Tubman
Was a slave then escaped and is the leader of Underground Railroad
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Underground Railroad
A network of passage ways used to free slaves as they escaped
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Frederick Douglass
A-A social reformer
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Anti slave novel
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Fugitive Slave Act
A pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runway slaves
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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Bleeding Kansas
Series of violent confrontations in the US
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Sumner-Brooks Incident
Brooks attacked sumner an abolitionist with a waking cane in retaliation for a speech given by sumner
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Raid on Harper’s Ferry
An effort by armed abolitionist john brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia
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Dred Scott v Sandford
Dread Scott was a slave and his owner was Sanford
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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech
Senate race in Illinois that became the center or national attention
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Election of 1860
Lincoln becomes 16th president
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Causes of the Civil War
States rights Expansion Slavery
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Fort Sumter
In charleston SC notable for two battles of the American Civil War
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Ulysses S. Grant
Union leader
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Robert E. Lee
Confederate leader
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Stonewall Jackson
Considered one of the most gifted tactical commanders in us history
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First Battle of Bull Run
Also known as the First Battle of Manassas
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Anaconda Plan
Unions strategic plan to defeat the confederacy at the start of the American Civil war
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54th Massachusetts
When blacks could fight in war
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The Battle of Gettysburg
Union forces are greatly outnumbered and forces to retreat
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The Battle of Vicksburg
Final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American civil war
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Shermans march to the sea
Military campaign of the American Civil War through Georgia
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Lee Surrendering to Grant
Lee had a stronger army but not as many people as grant so he knew they were gonna die so he surrendered
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13th Amendment
Abolished slavery in 1865
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14th Amendment
Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the US including AA
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15th Amendment
Gave AA men the right to vote 1870
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Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death
Fords theater John wills booth Peterson house
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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction
Forgiving south and wanted a harsher readmission process
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Freedman’s Bureau
It freed all men
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Segregation
Separation of all races
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Jim Crow Laws
Laws that made witches and AA to be separated in almost every place in the south
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Ku Klux Klan
Largest anti AA terrerists organization in the south

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