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Name the 13 states

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Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virgin Islands.

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What is the only type of person that could vote?

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White propertied men.

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When did the US win the fight against Britain and win?

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1776-1783.

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How much was spent campaigning against native Americans?

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80% of the US’s money.

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When did the US spend 80% of their money campaigning against native Americans?

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1791

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When was the battle of fallen timbers won?

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1794.

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What battle led to the treaty of greenville?

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Fallen timbers

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What did the treaty of Greenville do?

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Let the us take parts of the northwestern territory.

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When did Ohio, Illinois and Michigan form?

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1803-1819

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When were thousands of slave plantations formed?

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1790

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When was slavery starting to get phased out of seven of the northwestern states?

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1789.

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When was the cotton gin invented?

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1793

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How many times faster did the cotton gin process cotton?

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50 times faster.

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When did white settlers go into the lands of the “five civilised tribes”

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1790s

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When was there a successful slave revolt in the Caribbean?

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1803

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When did deslondes organise a revolt that was crushed?

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1811

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What were the five civilised tribes?

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Cherokee, chikasaw, Choctaw, creek, Seminole

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By this time 100,000 slaves were sold to the south.

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1815-1819

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When did cotton make up about 42% of all the US’s exports?

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1820

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When was there a battle over whether the states that were created in the Louisiana purchase weee going to tolerate slavery?

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1819

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What did the 1820 Missouri compromise achieve?

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Drew a virtual line across the middle of the country and any state that feel below could be a slave state and any state that was above it counted as a free state.

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When did Cherokee have their own churches schools and newspaper?

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1820

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23
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Who was the third president of the United States?

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Thomas Jefferson

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When did the US buy the French territory of Louisiana?

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1803.

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How many acres of land did Louisiana have?

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530 million acres.

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26
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How much did Louisiana cost?

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15 million.

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27
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When did Lewis and Clark start to explore new lands?

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1804

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28
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When was New Orleans (in Louisiana) the fourth biggest city in the us?

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1819

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29
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When were Alabama and Mississippi added to Louisiana?

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1819

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When was Andrew Jackson president?

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1829-37

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When was the us producing over a million bales of cotton a year?

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1838

32
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When was the Indian removal act?

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1830

33
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What did the Indian removal act do?

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Promised money to Indian tribes who relocated.

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What did the Choctaw and Chickasaw do when they heard of the promised money?

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They relocated. 15,000 of them. And gave up 11 million acres of land.

35
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When did Cherokee fight the Indian removal act?

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  1. They won and were able to stay.
36
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When did Seminole agree to move to Indian territory?

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1830.

37
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What happened when some of Seminole didn’t agree?

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Seminole wars: 1835-42

38
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When did the creek agree to give up some of Alabama?

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1832.

39
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When did creek begin attacking white settlers that went onto their land?

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1835.

40
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When did the army forcefully remove creek from their land?

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1836-1837

41
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When did only 2000 Cherokee move to Indian territory?

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1838.

42
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What was the trail of tears?

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Indian tribes forced to march west. 4000 died due to starvation cold and disease.

43
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By what time had the government moved 46,000 Indians off their own land?

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1838.

44
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When was the cotton gin invented?

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1793

45
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When was the Louisiana purchase?

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1803

46
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When was the Missouri compromise?

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1820

47
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What did the Louisiana purchase do?

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Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi joined the USA as slave states.

48
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When was the Missouri compromise stopped?

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Stayed in place till 1854

49
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When was the anti slavery society created?

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1833

50
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Who started the anti slavery society?

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William loyd-Garrison and Arthur Tappan

51
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When did the anti slavery society grow to 250,000?

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1838

52
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What did the anti slavery society do?

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Meant that former slaves that had fled to the north were able to tell their stories through pamphlet petitions and essays.

53
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When was the Underground Railroad created?

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1800

54
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Who set up the Underground Railroad?

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Former slaves Fredrick Douglas and Harriet Tubman.

55
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What did the Underground Railroad do?

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Helped slaves get smuggled to freedom. Thousands were smuggled to safety. South wasn’t happy with this.

56
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When does congress ban slavery in new territories?

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1846

57
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What did congress banning slavery in new territories mean?

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Northern politicians voted to ban slavery in any of the new territories (Cali). This called the Missouri compromise into question.

58
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When was the clay compromise

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1850

59
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Henry clay suggested:

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-cali entered as a free state
-territories that are gained from Mexico make their own decision on slavery
-all states should accept fugitive slave act which means that people should agree to return escaped slaves to their owners

60
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When was the Kansas Nebraska act?

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1854

61
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When was bleeding Kansas?

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1850

62
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When did James Buchanan become president?

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1856

63
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When was Abraham’s presidential campaign and states rights?

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1860

64
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When did South Carolina vote to succeed from the union?

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November 1860, it was 169,0

65
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When did another six states leave the union?

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1860-61

66
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When was the new confederate congress formed?

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February 1861

67
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When was fort sumpter attacked?

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April 1861

68
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What happened in in the Kansas Nebraska act?

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Act that overturned the Missouri compromise. Said that Kansas and Nebraska could not be slave states.

69
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What happened in bleeding Kansas?

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Violence broke out between people who were for and against slavery. Just under 200 people were killed in the violence.

70
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Where was the new confederacy government?

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Montgomery, Alabama.

71
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Who was the new confederacy government led by?

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Jefferson Davis

72
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When did the confederates open fire on fort sumpter?

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12th April 1861

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