Content Quiz #2 Flashcards
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1800
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- Election of Jefferson; “Revolution of 1800”
- The peaceful transfer of power from the Federalists to the Democratic-Republicans with the election of 1800
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1815
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- End of the War of 1812
- Beginning of “Era of Good Feelings”
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1828
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- Election of Jackson
- Comes after the 1824 “Corrupt Bargain”
- Universal White male suffrage
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1830
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- Antebellum reform movements (women’s rights, education reform, abolition)
- Second Great Awakening
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1848
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- Mexican American War ends; Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo
- Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights
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1861
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- Civil War begins at Fort Sumter, SC
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1865
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- End of Civil War
- Assassination of Lincoln
- Beginning of Reconstruction
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1877
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- End of Reconstruction; Compromise of 1877
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Compromise of 1877
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- the agreement between Republicans and Democrats after the contested election of 1876
- Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the presidency in exchange for withdrawing the last of federal troops from the South
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Era of Good Feelings
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- period between 1815-1828 associated with one-party rule (Democratic-Republicans)
- increased nationalism
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American System
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- the programme of federally sponsored roads & canals, protective tariffs, and a national bank
- govt sponsored infrastructure, protective tariffs, strong natl bank
- advocated by Henry Clay (the Great Compromiser), enacted by President Quincy Adams
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Nullification
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- the theory, advocated in response to the Tariff of 1828, that states could void federal law at their discretion
- built on precedent of VA/KY Resolves in response to Alien & Sedition Acts
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Free-Soil Party
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- a political party that sought to exclude slavery from the Western territories, leaving these areas open for settlement by White farmers
- ensured that White labourers would not have to compete with enslaved labour
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Antebellum
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- a term meaning “before the war”
- used to describe the decades before the American Civil War (1861)
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Second Great Awakening
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- a revival of evangelical Protestantism in the early nineteenth century
- famous sermon: “Sinners Bound to Change Their Own Hearts”, Charles Finney
- led to a series of reform movements
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Total War
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- a stature of war in which the govt makes no distinction between military and civilian targets
- govt mobilises all resources, extending its reach into all areas of citizens’ lives
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Reconstruction
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- 1865: Freedmen’s Bureau, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, Abandoned Lands
- created to ease Black peoples’ transition from slavery to freedom
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13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
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- 13th: abolished slavery
- 14th: gave birthright citizenship & equal protection to all people born in the US
- 15th: gave Black Americans the right to vote
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Regional Economic Development (North vs South)
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- South: plantation culture
- North: factories (Lowell Mills, MA)
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Missouri Compromise
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- 1820
- allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state
- brought Maine into the Union as a free state
- prohibited slavery N of 36º 30’ latitude
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Compromise of 1850
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- five separate laws passed by Congress in September 1850
- resolved issues stemming form the Mexican Cession & the sectional crisis
- admitted California as a free state
- provided territorial govt from Utah and NM
- established boundary between Texas and USA
- abolished slave trade in DC
- strengthened Fugitive Slave Act
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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- 30 May 1854
- repealed the Missouri Compromise
- created two new territories; allowed for popular sovereignty in regards to slavery
- result: Bleeding Kansas, violent uprising in Kansas as pro- and anti-slavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote
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Louisiana Purchase
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- 1803
- US purchase of the large territory of Louisiana from France
- doubles the size of the USA
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Mexican Cession
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- lands between West of the Rio Grande ceded to the US by Mexico in 1848
- California, Arizona, NM, Nevada, Utah, parts of Wyoming & Colorado
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“Indian Territory”
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- modern-day Oklahoma
- end point of relocation during the 1830s of Indigenous peoples of the SE region region of the US
- “five civilized tribes”: Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole
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Erie Canal
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- connected Hudson River to Lake Erie & other markets in the West
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Cumberland Road
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- natl highway from Maryland to Illinois
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Seneca Falls, NY
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- location of the first American conference on women’s rights
- signing of the “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments”, 1848
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Harpers Ferry
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- site of a federal arsenal in VA
- where radical abolitionist John Brown staged a (failed) effort to end slavery by instigating a mass uprising among enslaved people
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Fort Sumter
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- Charleston, SC
- start of the Civil War
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Gettysburg & Vicksburg
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- PA, MS
- turning points in the war
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Appomattox
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- VA
- end of Civil War; Lee surrenders
