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Proposed a compromise tariff and ended the crisis in 1833, known as the great compromise

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Henry clay

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The idea that states can reject federal laws

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Nullification

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Indian who led a group that defeated the US army several times

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Osceola

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Nationalist who later defended sectionalism and was jacksons Vice President

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John c Calhoun

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Parties use tumors and lies to attack each other during political campaigns

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Mudslinging

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Presidents give people key positions in their administration of the supported them

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Spoils system

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Describe the Indian removal act of 1830

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A. Gave Jackson the right to negotiate moving Indians to reserved territory
B. Jackson believed it would allow the natives to keep their way of life and would allow Americans to get the land they wanted

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Describe 3 parts of the legacy of the Jacksonian democracy

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A. State and local- a larger number of state and local officials were elected rather than appointed
B. Campaigning- presidential candidates now had to conduct national campaigns. Large political parties were needed to organize them
C. Popular election- in the election of 1812, only South Carolina used the old system by which presidential electors were chosen by state legislature

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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 Houston

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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 US and Mexico

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Treaty of Guadeloupe hidalgo

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Last battle between Mexico and Texas where Texans won independence

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Battle of San jacinto

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Religious group that settled in Utah

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Mormons

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Belief that the US was sure to expand from sea to sea

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Manifest destiny

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Land bought for 10 million from Mexico for a 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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Recognized Texas as 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
Crop failures 
Industrial revolution 
Agricultural changes
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Pull factors

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Abundant land
Economic opportunity
Freedom

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Wrote the first detective story

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Wrote moby dick

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Herman Melville

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Founder of the Hudson River school of painting

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Asher Durand

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Wrote about the simple life at walden pond

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Henry David Thoreau

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Opportunities for blind people

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Thomas Gallaudet

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Education

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Horace Mann

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Asylums and prisons

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Dorothea Dix

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Spoke in public about personal witness of slavery and became and abolitionist

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Angelina Gremke

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Famous abolitionist who lectured about his experience as a slave

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Frederick Douglas

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Escaped slave who repeatedly 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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Worked in temperance and antislavery movements and built women’s movement into a national organization

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Susan b Anthony

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Person who leaves a country

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Emigrant

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Someone who comes to a country

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Immigrant

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Group with goal 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 through feeling and intuition

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Transcendentalists

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2 transcendentalists

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Henry David Thoreau and Emerson

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Created the plan to settle the California problem

Compromise of 1850

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Henry clay

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Was in charge of winning passage of the bill as Democratic Party “Whig”

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Stephen Douglas

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Wrote uncle toms cabin in 1852 to potty slavery as brutal and immoral; start of events that led to the civil war

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Harriet beecher Stowe

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Murdered five people because of their pro Alavert views and turned some people against the abolitionist movement

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John brown

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  1. Senator of Massachusetts who gave anti slavery speech in congress, packed with insults
  2. was beaten with a cane because of his speech and it took him three and a half years to recover
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Charles sumner

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First presidential candidate for Republican Party

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John Fremont

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Was taken into a free state and back to a slave state and sued for his freedom

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Fred Scott

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The republican candidate of the election of 1860 who wanted to stop the spread of slavery

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Abraham Lincoln

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Stated that slavery would be outlawed in any territory the US might acquire from war with Mexico

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Wilmot proviso

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States California would be admitted as a free state and the slave trade would be abolished in DC

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Compromise of 1850

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Made it illegal to help runaway slaves

They had to help catch them

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Fugitive slave act

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Allowed settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery within the Kansas and Nebraska territories.

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Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

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Formed in reaction to the Kansas Nebraska act and was created from northern Whigs, free soilers, and a few northern democrats who opposed slavery

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Republican Party

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Lincoln argued that a house divided against itself cannot stand
Douglas won the debate that slavery should be decided by popular sovereignty

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Lincoln-Douglas debate

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Brown and several white and black men attacked a US marines Arsenal to capture weapons and supply slave revolt but it failed and John brown was hanged

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Harper’s ferry

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Man in debate who was against nullification

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Daniel Webster

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Political theory Southerners used to justify withdrawing from the Union

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States rights

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Biggest Issue that Divided the North and South

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Compromise of 1850

57
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Allowed settler to decide whether or not to have slavery within those territories

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Popular sovereignty

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South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas

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First seven states that seceded

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The right to vote in political elections

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Suffrage

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The idea of abolishing slavery

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Abolition

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Formed to stop the spread of slavery into the new territories

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Free soil party

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Correct order of events

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Wilmot Proviso
Free Soil Party
Republican Party
Abraham Lincoln becomes President
Secession of South Carolina
63
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Bleeding Kansas

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an alternative, anti-slavery government was set up in Lawrence, Kansas.
Proslavery forces attacked because they saw it as an illegal government.
A proslavery mob attacked and destroyed lawrence kansas, killing anti slavery members
Crittenden plan-

Pre-Ap Social Studies (6 decks)

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