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3rd Nine Weeks Study Guide Flashcards

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Population growth and crowding

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Abundant land

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Crop failures

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Industrial revolution

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Economic opportunity

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Agricultural changes

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Freedom

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Religious and political turmoil

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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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Founder of the Hudson river school of painting

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John James Audubon

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Wrote about simple life at Waldenpond

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Henry David Thoreau

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Opportunities for blind people

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Samuel G. How’s

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

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So joiner truth

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Worked in the temperance and anti-slavery movement and build the women’s movement international organization

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Susan B Anthony

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Spoke in public about personal witness of slavery; became an abolitionist

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Angelina Grimke

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Famous abolitionist who lectured about his experience as a slave

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Frederick Douglass

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Escape slaves who repeatedly risked life to help others slaves is scape along the underground railroad

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Harriet Tubman

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Organized the Seneca Falls convention in 1848

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Elizabeth Stanton

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A person who leaves a country

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Emigrant

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Person who comes into 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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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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Open to the Santa Fe Trail

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William Beckall

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Treaty that ended the war between the United States and Mexico

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Last battle between Mexico and Texas were taxes wanted 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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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 a transcontinental railroad

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Gadsden purchase

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Recognized Texas as a part of the US, recognize the Rio Grande River as the border between Texas and Mexico, pay 15 million for land, page $3.25 million for claims Americans had against Mexicans, Protect 80,000 Mexicans living in Texas in the Mexican Cession

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Man in debate who is against notification

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Webster

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Proposed a compromise tariff in into the crisis in 1833; the great compromiser

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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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Nationalist you later defended sectionalism (Jackson’s vice President)

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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 positions in their administration if they supported them

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Spoils system

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Gave Andrew Jackson the power to negotiate treaties with the Native Americans, gave the states the power to make laws that govern the Indian territory

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Indian removal act

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stated that slavery would be outlawed in any territory the US might acquire from the War with Mexico

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Wilmot Proviso

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To appease the south, congress will not make any laws regarding slavery in any territory won from Mexico and would pass a stronger law to help slave owners recapture runaway slaves. To please the north, California would be admitted as a free state, the slave trade would be abolished in Washington DC

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Compromise of 1850

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created the plan to settle the California problem

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Henry Clay

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was in charge of winning passage of the bill as the Democratic party “whip”

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Stephen Douglas

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made it illegal to assist or help runaway slaves. Suspected fugitive, or runaway, slaves could be held without a warrant. No right to a jury trial so many free blacks were captured and taken back to the south

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fugitive slave act

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created territories of Kansas and Nebraska, allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery within those territories - popular sovereignty

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Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

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pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed into the kansas territory. 5000 proslavery missourians voted illegally giving legislative power in kansas to the proslavery group. Anti-slavery settlers boycotted and created their own government

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Bleeding Kansas

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to avenge the sack of lawrence, he attacked. he murdered 5 people because of their pro-slavery views. Called Pottawatomie Massacre. He turned people against the abolitionist movement

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John Brown

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gave an anti-slavery speech in congress, packed with insults including making fun of senator from south carolina. he used insults and verbally attacked South Carolina Senator AP Butler

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Charles Sumner

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formed in reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854. The party was created from the Northern Whigs, Free-Soilers and a few Northern Democrats who opposed slavery. Its goal was to oppose the spread of slavery.

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Republican Party

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1st presidential candidate for the Republican Party

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John Fremont

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formed to stop the spread of slavery into the new territories. Their motto was “Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men”.

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Free-Soil Party

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sued for his freedom

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Dred Scott

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Douglas Won this debate but Lincoln made a name for him and his party

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Lincoln-Douglass Debate

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stated “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” He did not want to abolish slavery, he just wanted to prevent it from spreading.

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Abraham Lincoln

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John brown and several white and black men attacked a US Marine arsenal to capture weapons and supply a slave revolt. This attack failed and John Brown was captured and hanged for murder and treason.

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Harpers Ferry Attack of 1859

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first seven states to secede

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

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what was the right to vote

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suffrage

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the desire to get rid of slavery

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abolition

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letting the people choose how to govern their society

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popular sovereignity

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what was the biggest issue that divided the north and south in the 1850s

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slavery and state’s rights

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wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin to portray slavery as brutal and immoral

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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when the states wanted to be able to choose between slavery or no slavery, they also wanted to decide on their taxes on their own

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States’ Rights

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correct order of Republican Party, Wilmot Proviso, Abraham Lincoln becomes president, Secession of South Carolina, and Free Soil Party

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Wilmot Proviso, Free Soil Party, Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln becomes president, and South Carolina Secedes

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