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Ch12-15 Semester Test Flashcards

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What did Franklin Pierce become in 1853?

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President

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Enslaved African American who rebelled

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May turner

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What Senate race in 1858 Was the center of national attention?

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Illinois

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Who was not a presidential candidate in 1860?

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John C. Calhoun

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What plan specified that slavery should not be prohibited in any Lands that might be acquired from Mexico?

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Wilmer Proviso

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What act made it to where a person could be fined or imprisoned for aiding fugitives?

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Fugitive slave act

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What was the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery?

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Kansas

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What Supreme Court decision divided the nation even more?

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Dred Scott case

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Douglas’s stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders rights came to be known as?

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The Freeport doctrine

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The 1860 presidential candidate whose name did not appear on the ballot in most southern states was?

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Abraham Lincoln

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Who was the senator from Kentucky to try to save the union by proposing a last-minute compromise?

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John Crittenden

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What network, which helps runaway slaves to escape, was established in opposition to the fugitive slave act?

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The underground railroad

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Repealed the Missouri compromise

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Kansas-Nebraska act

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Who won 1848 presidential election?

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Zachary Taylor

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Henry Clay’s plan?

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The compromise of 1850

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Wrote civil disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau

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Ruled on the Dred Scott decision

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Roger B. Taney

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Steven Douglas’s response to slavery

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Freeport doctrine

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Proposed Missouri compromise

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Henry Clay

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Formed on February 4, 1861

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Confederacy

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Violent abolitionist

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John Brown

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Opponent of Abraham Lincoln

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Stephen a. Douglas

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First Attack of the Civil War

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Sumter

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Letting the people decide

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Popular sovereignty

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President of the Confederacy

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Jefferson Davis

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Propposed amendments to protect slavery

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John Crittenden

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27
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Justification for the South seceding

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States’s rights

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A community based in a vision of a perfect society is called?

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Utopia

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29
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Who was the leader of educational reform?

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Horace Mann

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The first college to admit both African Americans and women was?

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Oberlin college

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Writers Margaret fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau were?

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Transendentalists

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Who wrote uncle tom’s cabin?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The first white abolitionist to call for “immediate and complete emancipation” of enslaved people was?

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William Lloyd garrison

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The first women’s rights convention was held in?

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New York

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Women fighting to end slavery recognized their own oppression and formed the?

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Women’s rights movement

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Which was the first state to grant women the right to vote?

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Wyoming

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In the 1800s there was a wave of religious fervor known as the?

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Second great awakening

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What movement called for drinking little or no alcohol ?

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Temperance

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Who began the crusade against the use of alcohol?

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Lyman Beecher

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Who wrote the narrative poem song of Hiawatha?

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Henry wadsworth Longfellow

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Who constructed the first mechanical reaper?

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Cyrus McCormick

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Who wrote seemingly simple, deeply personal poems?

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Emily Dickinson

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The network of escape routes out of the south for enslaved people was the?

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Underground Railroad

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Who was the most famous Underground Railroad conductor?

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Harriet Tubman

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The most controversial issue at the Seneca falls convention concerned?

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Suffrage

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Who graduated first in the class and gained fame as a doctor after being repeatedly turned down for admission to medical school?

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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Frontier camp meetings

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Revivals

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Arriving between 1820 and 1860, the second largest group of immigrants was from

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Germany

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Reformed care for mentally ill

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Dorothea Dix

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North Star editor

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Fredrick Douglas

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Runaway slave escape route

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Underground Railroad

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The right to vote

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Suffrage

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Practiced civil disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau

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Wrote uncle tom’s cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Demanded women suffrage

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Elizabeth cady Stanton

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Called for by Susan b. Anthony

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Coeducation

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Site of the first women’s’ rights convention

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Seneca falls, New York

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Perfect society

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Utopia

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Founder of Troy female seminary

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Emma Willard

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Drinking little or no alcohol

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Temperance

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Founder of mount Holyoke

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Mary Lyon

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What was the name of the former slave who attracted huge crowds to hear her eloquent speeches?

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Sojourner truth

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By 1860, the Midwest and the east were united by a network of

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Railroad tracks

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With workers of the same skills, workers formed

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Trade unions

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The demand for cotton from the south came from

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Europe

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Who purchased his freedom from the slaveholder he had fled?

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Fredrick Douglass

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What large group of southerners owned small farms of about 50 to 200 acres?

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Yeomen

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What transformed trade in the nation’s interior?

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Railways

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Many immigrants lived in

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Slums

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To put pressure on employers, workers staged

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Strikes

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Many immigrants from which country became servants and factory workers?

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Ireland

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The largest group of whites in the south were

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Yeomen

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What group of southerners measured their wealth partly by the number of enslaved people they controlled

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Plantation owners

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Enslaved people needed an extended family as a measure of security because they

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Could be sold

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What made it a crime to teach enslaved people to read or write?

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Slave codes

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Built first United States steam locomotive

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Peter copper

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Transmitted first telegraph message

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Samuel morse

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Members of the know nothing party

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Nativists

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Increased cotton processing

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Cotton gin

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A form of loan

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Credit

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The north’s main income

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Industry

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The south’s main income

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Regular expenses

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Plantation manager

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Overseer

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Refusal to work

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Strike

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Formed American party

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Nativists

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Grew sugarcane

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Deep South

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Extreme shortage of food

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Famine

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Produced tobacco

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Upper south

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What was the last country to challenge the U.S’s control of Oregon?

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Britain

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What allowed people from both Britain and the United States to settle in Oregon country

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Joint occupation

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Mountain men made their living as

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Fur trappers

92
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Who was not killed at the battle of the Alamo?

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Sam Houston

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What was the third part of James K Polk’s war plan?

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To capture Mexico City

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Cmdr. in chief of the Texas forces was

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Sam Houston

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Founded by the Mormons, which city was originally called Desiree?

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Salt Lake City

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Reports of what persuaded many Americans to settle in Oregon country?

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Fertile lands

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Santa Anna was captured in the battle of

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San Jacinto

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What did the United States insist was the border between the United States and Mexico?

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Rio grande

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What town in California was seized by a small group and renamed the bear flag Republic?

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Sonoma

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Which people made huge profits during the goldrush?

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Merchants

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What event ended in a few years but had long-lasting effects on California’s economy?

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Gold rush

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Who led the Mormon migration to the great Salt Lake area?

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Brigham young

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Green River Explorer

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Jim beckenwourth

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Way to Oregon country

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Oregon trail

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Commander in chief of Texas forces

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Sam Houston

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William becknell’s route

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Santa Fe trail

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Huge Mexican properties

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Ranchos

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Mountain man turned guide

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Kit Carson

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Ordered Texans execution

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Antonio lópez de Santa Anna

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Mexican ranch owners

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Rancheros

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Mexicans living in California

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Californios

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Flourished during the goldrush

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San Francisco

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Stephen Austin

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Empresario

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Mormon land in Utah

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Deseret

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Took the law into their own hands

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Vigilantes

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Official order

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Decree

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Gold seekers

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Forty-niners

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Which party endorsed the Wilmont proviso?

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Free-soil

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Why was admission of Missouri as a slave state controversial in the Senate?

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It would upset the balance of slave and free states

120
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Liberia

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“Place of freedom”

122
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What did the enforcement of the fugitive slave lead to?

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More anger in the north

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