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3rd 9wks Test Flashcards

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proposed a compromise tariff and ended the crisis in 1833

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Henry Clay

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2
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The idea that states can reject federal laws

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Nullification

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3
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nationalist who later defended sectionalism

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John C. Calhoun

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parties use rumors and lies to attack each other during political campaigns

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mudslinging

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presidents give people keep position in their administration if they supported them

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Spoils System

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describe the Indian removal act of 1830

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  • gave Jackson the right to negotiate moving Indians to reserved territory
  • Jackson believed it would allow the natives to keep their way of life it would allow Americans to get the land they wanted
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describe stay and local of the Jacksonian democracy

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A larger number of state and local officials were elected rather than appointed

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campaigning of the Jacksonian democracy

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presidential candidates now had to conduct national campaigns

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popular election of the Jacksonian democracy

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in the election of 1812 only South Carolina use the old system

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founder of the first American colony in Texas

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Stephen F. Austin

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first president of the republic of Texas

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Sam Housten

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leader of the Mormon church after Joseph Smith died

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Brigham Young

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Opened the Santa Fe Trail

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William Becknell

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treaty that ended the war between the United States and Mexico

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Guadalupe Hidalgo

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last battle between Mexico and Texas where Texas won independence

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San Jacinto

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religious group settled in Utah

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Mormons

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Believe that the United States was sure to expand from sea to shining sea

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manifest destiny

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land bought for 10 million from Mexico for transcontinental railroad

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Gadsden Purchase

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name three results of the treaty that ended the war with Mexico

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  • recognize Texas is part of the US
  • made Rio Grande River the border between Texas and Mexico
  • United States had to pay Mexico 15 million for land
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push factors

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  • religious and political turmoil
  • population growth in crowd
  • crop failures
  • industrial revolution
  • agriculture changes
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pull factors

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  • abundant land
  • economic opportunity
  • freedom
22
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wrote the first detective story

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Edgar Allan Poe

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wrote Moby Dick

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Herman Melville

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sounder of the Hudson river school of painting

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Asher Durand

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wrote about simple life at Walden Pond

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Henry David Thoreau

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opportunities for blind people

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Samuel G Howe

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opportunities for deaf people

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Thomas H. Gallaudet

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education

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Horace Mann

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asylums and prisons

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Dorthea Dix

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spoke in public about personal witness of slavery

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Angelina Grimke

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famous abolitionist who lectured about his experiences as a slave

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Frederick Douglas

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escaped slave who repetitively risked life to help other slaves escape along the underground railroad

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Harriet Tubman

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african-American woman who spoke out publicly Against slavery and leader in struggle for women’s rights

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sojourner Truth

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organized Seneca Falls convention in 1848

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Elizabeth Stanton

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Man in debate who was against nullification

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Daniel Webster

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worked in the temperance and anti-slavery movement and built the women’s movement international organization

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Susan B Anthony

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Emigrant

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person who leaves the country

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Immigrant

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person who comes to the country

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Group with call of restricting the influence of immigrants in the US

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nativists

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belief that people find truth within themselves the feeling and intuition

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transcendentalist

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two people who are transcendentalist

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Margaret Fuller and Rolf Waldo Emerson

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