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Ch. 12-18 Flashcards

1
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3 major trails heading west

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(1) Santa Fe
(2) Oregon
(3) Mormon

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2
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Battle for Texas’s freedom from Mexico

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Battle of the Alamo

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3
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3 good guys that fought at the Alamo

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(1) William Travis
(2) Jim Bowie
(3) Davy Crockett

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4
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Leader of Mexico, “bad guy” during the battle of the Alamo

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Santa Anna

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5
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Official ended the Mexican war

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Treaty of G. Hildago

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6
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Purchase of narrow strip of land on borders of Arizona and New Mexico for $10 million in 1853

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Gadsden purchase

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7
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Rush to California for gold

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California good rush

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8
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The idea that people should choose/decide

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Popular sovereignty

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9
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Mainly farmers and agriculture and plantations

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Southern occupation

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10
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Merchants, factor workers and owners of small farms

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Northern occupation

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11
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Only those of African descent, permanent for most, was a result of selling and buying stolen Africans

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Slavery

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12
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Setting slaves free

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Emancipation

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13
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The want to stop slavery complete

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Abolition

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14
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Network of people who aided runway slaves, “conductors” hid escaping slaves by night

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Underground Railroad

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15
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Government organized by states that seceded from the Union, first president Jefferson Davis, the 1st state to sexed was South Carolina

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Confederate states of America

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16
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Federal fort in south Carolina’s Charleston’s harbor, site of sorts shots of the civil war

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Fort Sumter

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17
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Replacement as commander of the army of northern Virginia, conferdage side asked to leave the union

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Robert E. Lee

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18
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Years of the civil war

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1861-1865

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19
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Better supply line

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North

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20
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Fought for the “cause”

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South

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21
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Had black recruits during war

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North

22
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George McClellan

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North

23
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Surrenders at Appomattox

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South

24
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William Sherman

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North

25
Q

Suffered severe damage from the war

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South

26
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Stonewall Jackson

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South

27
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Blockade runners

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South

28
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Had a control of the Mississippi during the war

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North

29
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Picketts charge at Gettysburg

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South

30
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Robert E. Lee

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South

31
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Ulysses S. Grant

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North

32
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Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, bloodiest one-day battle in American history, resulted in a tie

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Antietam

33
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Lincoln’s goal

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Keep the union together

34
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Confederate, man who assassinated Lincoln

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John Wilkes Booth

35
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6 modern tactics used in the Civil War (3 required)

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(1) manned balloons/zeppelins
(2) telegraph
(3) railroads
(4) photography
(5) rifling
(6) mines

36
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Major battles in the civil war

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Vicksburg, Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg

37
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A requirement by the government to serve in the military

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Draft/conscription

38
Q

Period from the end of the civil war to 1877 to rebuild America

A

Reconstruction

39
Q

The amendment that abolished slavery

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13th amendment

40
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Blacks and poor whites farmed small plots owned by planters and gave a portion of the crop to the planter

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Sharecropping

41
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Towns that were built for factor workers around factories

A

Mill towns

42
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Time period where the factor system grew

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Industrialism

43
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Place in New York harbor where immigrants would come to enter the country

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Ellis Island

44
Q

Invented the telephone

A

Alexander Graham Bell

45
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Perfected the light bulb

A

Thomas Edison

46
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Placed great emphasis on money and possessions

A

Materialisms

47
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6 major groups of people heading west (3 required)

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(1) Cowboys
(2) Homesteaders
(3) Indians
(4) Miners
(5) Lawmen
(6) Outlaws

48
Q

Building large empires by gaining economic and political control over weaker nations

A

Imperialism

49
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Reporters twisted stories to make them more interesting than the last

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Yellow journalism/yellow press

50
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American-built canal that links the Atlantic and pacific oceans through Panama

A

Panama Canal

51
Q

Roosevelt’s policy that showed off American military strength to foreign countries

A

“Bug stick” policy

52
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People in china who wanted to kick all foreign influence

A

Boxer Rebellion

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