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Final 150 Part 2 Flashcards

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Election of 1800

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John Adams vs Thomas Jefferson

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Louisiana Purchase

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France sells the territory for $15 million

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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They were sent to explore this territory and find its resources

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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Impressment- the act of forcing Americans to serve in the British Navy
Attack of the Chesapeake- the u.s. ship the Chesapeake was intercepted by a British vessel demanding to search for dissenters

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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People who pushed for war with Great Britain such as 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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DC burned- British forces were able to march into Washington DC and burned the Capitol and president’s mansion down
Fort McHenry- the fort at the entrance to Baltimore Harbor (Star Spangled Banner was written)
Battle of New Orleans- took place after the peace treaty was signed (Andrew Jackson became famous)

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The Star Spangled Banner

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Written by Francis Scott Key and our national anthem

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Monroe Doctrine

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the Western Hemisphere was no longer open for colonization

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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Many people moved to the US from Ireland

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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The convention led by her Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott who both publicly fought for women’s suffrage

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Industrial Revolution

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The change from an agrarian society to one based on industry

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Capitalism

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Individuals put their capital into a business in hopes of making a profit (The Economic System of the US)

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Free Enterprise System

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People are free to buy, sell, and produce what they want and can work where they wish

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Supply and Demand

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Prices/ Cost is set by supply and demand in a Free Enterprise System

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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 took the seed out of the cotton and it increased slavery

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Urban vs Rural

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Urban- City

Rural- Country

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Wilderness Road

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Aided the early exploration of Tennessee because it made passing through the mountains easier and opened the door for more settlement (route to Kentucky from the Atlantic Coast)

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Daniel Boone

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He and 30 skilled foresters blazed the trail that became the Wilderness Road

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Cumberland Gap

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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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The speaker of the house, Henry Clay, meets with Adams and agrees to use his influence to help Adams get the vote in the House of Representatives

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Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank

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Spoils system- the practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidate’s supporters
Fight with the bank- Jackson tried to kill the bank by withdrawing all federal funds from the national bank and placing them in smaller state banks

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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 and movement of Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

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Sequoyah

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Created the written Cherokee language

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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency

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He was the 9th president. He gave an inauguration speech that lasted for over 2 hours. He died of pneumonia shortly afterwards. He had the shortest Presidency, consisting of 32 days.

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Manifest Destiny

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Belief that America should extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific Ocean

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Texas Rebellion

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The Alamo – battle significance

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The defenders of the Alamo bought the Texans some much needed time (Santa Anna’s Mexico vs Travis’ Texans)

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Davy Crockett

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Backwoodsman from Tennessee who volunteered to fight at the Alamo

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Oregon Trail

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Used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest

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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?

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Manifest Destiny

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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession

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Border dispute- US believes that the Texas border is the Rio Grande River and Mexico believes the border is the Nueces River
Mexican Cession- 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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John Sutter- first to discover a gold nugget on his property
California Gold Rush- a large group of people came to California in search of gold (more then doubled the world’s supply of gold)

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Brigham Young

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Led the Mormon migration to the Great Salt Lake area of Utah

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Made to have Maine enter as a free state and Missouri enter as a slave state

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John Brown

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Violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery

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Harriet Tubman

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The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad

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Underground Railroad

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A network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people

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Frederick Douglass

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Most well known African American abolitionist

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Novel that explored the issue of slavery

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the US

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Bleeding Kansas

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

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Sumner-Brooks Incident

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Senator Charles Sumner lashed out against those for slavery, including Andrew P. Butler (Butler’s cousin, Rep. Preston Brooks, walked into the Senate chamber and hit Sumner with a cane)

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Raid on Harper’s Ferry

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John Brown led 18 men on a raid to attack a weapon storage facility

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Dred Scott v Sandford

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Dred Scott, a slave vs his owner

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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech

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Senate race in Illinois that became the center of national attention “I believe that the government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

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Election of 1860

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Lincoln becomes the 16th president

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Causes of the Civil War

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Slavery, Lincoln’s Election, and Fort Sumter

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Fort Sumter

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Confederate guns opened fire on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. The Fort Sumter attack marked the beginning of the Civil War.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Robert E. Lee

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Was opposed to slavery, but still fought on the Confederate side because he was a proud Virginian that would not fight against his own state (Commander of the Confederacy)

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Stonewall Jackson

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Considered one of the most gifted tactical commanders in US history

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First Battle of Bull Run

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Fought near the town of Manassas junction and a small river named Bull Run (first major battle of the civil war)

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