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Election of 1800

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A race between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams which Thomas Jefferson Won

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Louisiana Purchase

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A deal made by Thomas Jefferson to acquire 827,000 square miles of land from west of the Mississippi for $15 Million

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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An exploration started in 1804 to map the new land from the Louisiana Purchase

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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An event where the British ship leopard took over the US ship Chesapeake looking for deserters of the Royal Navy

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun

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War of 1812 – DC burned, Fort McHenry, Battle of New Orleans

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A war in which war Hawks convinced congress to declare war against Britain over them attack vessels and Britain burned down DC and Andrew Jackson had a battle in New Orleans after a treaty had been signed

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The Star Spangled Banner

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A poem that was written when Fort McHenry was being attacked and it was written by Francis Scott Key

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Monroe Doctrine

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A document in which James Monroe said that the us would defend against anyone who attacked them or their neighbors

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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When the Irish migrated to the U.S. to eat and get money.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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A women’s rights activist that held the first women’s rights convention

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Industrial Revolution

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An event that started in the 18th century that made things in mass quantities

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Capitalism

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An economic system in which the free economy determine the price along with supply and demand

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Free Enterprise System

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Usually related to capitalism in which corporations determine the price of a product along with supply and demand

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Supply and Demand

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A system in which the supply a demand of something determines the price mainly relating to the consumer

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Number One Crop in the South in the 1800’s

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Cotton

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Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin – what it did and why that was important

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It made cotton and slavery much more profitable and it brought back a lot of slavery

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Urban vs Rural

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Urban is a city while rural is less densely populated

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Wilderness Road

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A route that was blazed by Daniel Boone to help people reach Kentucky from the east

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Daniel Boone

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A pioneer who explored mostly Kentucky and was rem reed for blazing a trail to Kentucky called Wilderness Road

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Cumberland Gap

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A break in the mountains allowing much easier travel to Kentucky and Tennessee

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The Corrupt Bargain

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When no one reached the majority of electoral votes so it went to congress but Henry Clay got kicked out because he was fourth so he convinced congress to vote for John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson

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Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank

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Andrew Jackson was the 7th president of the United States. The spoil system is what a government official does after they when office in which they give public offices to supporters. He fought with the bank and destroyed it which destroyed the economy

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Indian Removal Act

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An act that Andrew Jackson passed to remove Indians and move them on the trail of tears. The bill was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, but they did it anyway

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Trail of Tears

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A trail to Oklahoma traveled by Indians who were forced to move

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Sequoyah

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An Indian man who made the Indian alphabet

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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency

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The shortest presidency ever in which it only lasted 30 days

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Manifest Destiny

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The belief that the United States should own all land from the Atlantic sea to the pacific sea

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Texas Rebellion

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A rebellion in which want to be Americans living in Texas wanted to break a way from Mexico

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The Alamo – battle significance

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A battle in which the Mexican government killed hundreds of men that were rebelling

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Davy Crockett

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A popular explorer who died in the Alamo

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Oregon Trail

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A trail which families took to go settle in Oregon

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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?

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He fulfilled manifest destiny

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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession

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A war over who controlled an area of Texas which was started over an attack on Fort Texas and when ended Mexico gave the us a large portion of land

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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush

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John shutter is the man who discovered gold on his land and started the California gold rush which happened in 1849 which doubled the worlds supply of gold

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Brigham Young

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Head of the Mormon church in which he lead them to Utah

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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It didn’t allow slave states Obote Missouri

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John Brown

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A man who attacked Harper’s Ferry over slavery and tried to start a slave rebellion

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Harriet Tubman

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A conductor of the Underground Railroad who went back into the south 19 times

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Underground Railroad

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A system in which people would transport slaves to the north for freedom and later to Canada

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Frederick Douglass

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An abolitionist who wrote The North Star

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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The best selling book of the 1800s that showed the true way of slavery

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Fugitive Slave Act

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It allowed people in the north who they thought were slaves to capture them and return them

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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The act that created Nebraska and Kansas

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Bleeding Kansas

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Where there were 2 different governments

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Sumner-Brooks Incident

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Where a senator beat his cousin over slavery

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Raid on Harper’s Ferry

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A raid in which John Brown tried to over take a armory to start a slave uprising

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Dred Scott v Sandford

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Where a slave sewed his owner for freedom after he got moved to a free state and then back

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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech

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16th president that wanted to end slavery and gave his speech against Douglas talking about how the government can not be so divided

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Election of 1860

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Slavery is an important issue which Lincoln is against slavery and he wins

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Causes of the Civil War

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An attempt to end slavery and them seeing the government trying to end southern way and taxes in southern goods

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Fort Sumter

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Pathetic south attacked the fort in the battle of fort Sumter

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Ulysses S. Grant

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The genius northern general that lived in Virginia

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Robert E. Lee

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A genius southern general

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Stonewall Jackson

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A confederate commander who was just behind Robert E. Lee

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First Battle of Bull Run

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One of the first battles of the Civil War. The confederates won

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Anaconda Plan

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A plan to strangle the south by cutting off its ports and routes

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54th Massachusetts

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A black regiment who was one of the most successful in the civil war

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The Battle of Gettysburg

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The largest battle ever fought in North America and it had 50K casualties before Lee retreated

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The Battle of Vicksburg

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When the north seized the final city that the confederates had on the Mississippi

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Sherman’s March to the Sea

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Where they marched across the south destroying industrial and civilian buildings and it ended when they over took the Savannah port

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Lee Surrendering to Grant

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Lee surrendered to grant at the Appomattox Court House after the battle of Appomattox there was no treaty signed.

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13th Amendment

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It prevented slavery

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14th Amendment

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It granted full citizenship to African Americans in America

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15th Amendment

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It gave African Americans the right to vote

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Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death

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He got murdered at fords theater by John W Booths on April 15 1865

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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction

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An event where 10 percent of voters in the 1860s had to swear Allegiance to the united states but radical republicans wanted it to be 50 percent

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Freedman’s Bureau

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It helped people who were slaves transition to becoming free

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Segregation

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Where they separate both races

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Jim Crow Laws

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Laws that enforced racial segregation

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Ku Klux Klan

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A group that targeted to disadvantage and hurt blacks

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