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Election of 1800

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John Adams v. Thomas Jefferson/president v. Vice President

  • two candidates had 73 electoral votes:Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr
  • the election was decided by the House of Representatives
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Louisiana Purchase

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France sales this land for $15 million

  • it doubled the size of the US
  • some Federalists threatened to leave the union over the purchase
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Lewis and Clark expedition

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They followed the Missouri River on a trip to the Pacific Ocean
-this inspired people to move west

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Impressment and attack of the Cheasapeake

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  • the British impressed/ made them serve in the British navy, thousands of native US citizens
  • The US ship the Cheasapeake was intercepted by a British vessel demanding to search for his dissenters
  • the captain refused, so the British commander attacked
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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

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The Capitol of Dc and the presidents mansion was burned

  • Dolley Madison saved portrait of George Washington
  • the British attacked fort McHenry
  • battle of New Orleans happened after the treaty was signed
  • this battle was decisive victory for the US; made Andrew Jackson a household name
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The Star Spangled Banner

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Written by Francis Scott Key,inspired by the attacks on Fort McHenry

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Monroe Doctrine

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-the Western Hemisphere was no longer open for civilization
Was a sign to European nations to keep out of the Americas
-it became a big part of the American foreign policy instantly

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Irish potato famines relationship to immigration

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Immigration to the US grew sharply during this time

-brought customs and religions to America and changed some of the way of living

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Convention

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Was a conference led by Stanton that discussed mainly women’s suffrage
/right to vote

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Industrial revolution

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Time of change from an agrarian society to one based on industry
-the Industrial Revolution movement began in New England

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Capitalism

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Economic System of the US
-individuals put there capital into a business in hopes of making a profit
Capital-money used for the investment

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Free Enterprise System

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People are free to buy, sale, and produce what they want and can work when they wish
-prices are set up by supply and demand in a Free Enterprise System

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Supply and Demand

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Them amount of something and the number of buyers for it,used as factors when considering price

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Cotton

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Number one crop in the south in the 1800’s

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Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin

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Or removed seeds from picked cotton

-allowed for a huge increase in cotton production

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Urban vs. Rural

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Rural-country

Urban-city

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Wilderness Road

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Route from Kentucky to the Atlantic coast

  • aided the early exploration of TN
  • made passing through mountains easier
  • opened door for more settlement
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Daniel Boone

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Boone and 30 skilled foresters blazed the trail that became the Wilderness Road
-this made him a long hunter, or an American wilderness explorer for at least 6 months

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Cumberland Gap

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In the mountains

-allowed for a path to be created that made passing through the Appalachian Mountains easier

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The Corrupt Bargain

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When Henry Clay meets with Adams and agrees to use his influence to help Adams get the vote in the House of Representatives

  • Quincy Adams wins the election of 1824
  • after Corrupt Bargain the democratic Republican Party splits up
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Andrew Jackson

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Spoils System-practice of replacing government employees with winning candidate supporters
-Jackson wanted destroy the national bank and give the money to the smaller ones

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Indian Removal Act

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Act passed by congress in order to relocate Native Americans

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Trail of Tears

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Relocation of Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

-Winfield Scott and Army of 7000 federal troops came to remove Cherokee from there homes

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Sequoyah

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Known for writing the Cherokee language

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Lilian Henry Harrison

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Tippecanoe and Tyler too

  • inauguration speech lasted two hours
  • shortest presidency-32 days
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Manifest Destiney

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Belief that America should extend its boundaries all the way yo the Pacific

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Texas Rebellion

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-Stephen F. Austin recruited 300 American families to help settle land in Mexico

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The Alamo

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The defenders bought Texans some much needed time

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Davy Crokett

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A backwoods man from TN who volunteered to fight at the Alamo

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Oregon Trail

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Was a seed by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest

32
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James K. Polk

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First president to fulfill manifest destiny

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Mexican War

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US believes border is the Rio Grande Mexico believes border is Nueces River
- ceded California and New Mexico and in return the US gave them $15 million

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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush

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Obtained land in California

  • 1st to discover a gold nugget
  • Gold rush more than doubled the worlds supply of Gold
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Brigham Young

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Led the migration to the Great Salt Lake are Utah

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Helped preserve the balance between ween the north and the south
-made Maine enter as a free and Missouri as a slave

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John Brown

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Violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery

38
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Harriet Tubman

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Most well known conducted of the Underground Railroad

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Underground Railroad

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Network of escape routes out of the south for enslaved people

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Fredrick Douglas

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Most well known African American abolitionist

  • worked hard to become a powerful speaker
  • edited antislavery newspaper “North Star”
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Uncle Toms Cabin

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Bye Harriet Beecher Stowe

-political novel and bestsellers that discussed how slavery was brutal

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850

  • anyone who aided these slaves could be imprisoned or fined
  • this caused anger in the North
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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the US
-allowed for popular sovereignty

44
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Bleeding Kansas

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Kansas became the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavey

45
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Summer-Brooks incident

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Senator Charles Sumner lashed out against those for slavery,including Andrew P. Butler
-Butlers cousin walked into senate chamber and hit Summer with a cane

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Raid on Harper’s Ferry

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John Brown led 18 men to attack a weapon storage facility

47
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Dred Scott v Stanford

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Was a court case of Scott-slave and his owner

-case decided the nation

48
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Lincoln-Douglass debates

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Senate race in Illinois that became the center of national attention
-“A house divided against itself cannot stand”

49
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Election of 1860

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Lincoln won the election

  • showed a divided country
  • the big question was will the union continue to exist
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Causes of the Civil War

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The states were divided over the issue of slavery

51
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Fort Sumter

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Was the first major event that started the Civil war

52
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Ulysses S. Grant

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Commander of the Union Armies

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Robert E. Lee

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Lead commander of the Confederate troops

54
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Stonewall Jackson

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Considered one of the most gifted tactical commanders in the US history

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First Battle of Bull Run

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The first major battle of the Civil War

56
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Anaconda Plan

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Union war plan to defeat the South by dividing them into two

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54th Massachusetts

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Most well known African American regiment

58
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The Battle of Gettysburg

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Union forces are outnumbered and forced to retreat

  • after 2 unsuccessful days Lee plans attack that he hoped would send panic and destroy the army
  • remembered as Pickett’ Charge
59
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The Battle of Vicksburg

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One of the Union victories that was considered the turning point of the Civil War

60
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Sherman’s March to the Sea

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General William Tecumseh Sherman led the Western army towards Atlanta
-after burning Atlanta,Sherman’s army began there historic “March to the Sea” towards Savannah Georgia

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Lee’s surrender to Grant

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On April 9,1865, Lee and his troops surrendered to Grant in a small Virginia village called Appomattox Courthouse
-the terms of surrender were very forgiving in the southern troops

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13th Amendment

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Bans slavery in US states and territories in 1865

63
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14th Amendment

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Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the US in 1866

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15th Amendment

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Gave African American men the right to vote

65
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Lincoln’s Assassination

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In Fords theatre

  • by John Wilkes Booth
  • died at the Peterson’s House
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10 percent plan and radical republican plans for reconstruction

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Plan was forgiving on the south

Republican-wanted a harsher readmission process

67
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Freedman’s Bureau

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Agency that helped African Americans make the transition to freedom

68
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Segregation

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Separation of the races

69
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Jim Crow laws

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Laws that acquired African Americans and whites to be superset in almost every public place

70
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Ku Klux Klan

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Largest anti-African American group in the South

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