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Election of 1800

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  • John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson
  • Thomas’s Jefferson won
  • decided by the House Of Reps
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Louisiana Purchase

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  • sold for $250 million (modern$)

- doubled size of US

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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-sent to explore the Louisiana Territory & find its resources

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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Caused some of the war of 1812

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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  • people who pushed for war with Great Britain

- ex.) Henry Clay& John C. Calhoun

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

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Capitol,White House, library of congress burned, Francis Scott key writes star spangled banner
Treaty of Ghent
Took place after the treaty was signed

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The Star Spangled Banner

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  • Written at Fort Mchenry

- By Francis Scott Key

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Monroe Doctrine

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Said that the US would not interfere with wars in Europe nor any existing European colonies in America

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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The Potato famine caused Ireland to have an extreme shortage of food so they moved to America (for food)

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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Woman’s suffrage supporter
Met Susan B. Anthony at Seneca falls convention
Lucretia Mott met her at an antislavery event
First woman’s temperance association “ daughters of temperance”

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Industrial Revolution

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Late 1700s
Changed how people lived and worked
Technology that changed making cloth , water frame and spinning Jenny

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Capitalism

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People or business own property and decide how to use it

People and companies own the means of production

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Free Enterprise System

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People are free to sell and produce whatever ……capitalism

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Supply and Demand

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When demand goes up supply goes up, when it goes down so does supply

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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 harvesting cotton easier
  • could harvest 50 times more cotton each day
  • rise in southern economy
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Urban vs Rural

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Rural:small towns and villages ( country )
Urban:bigger ,more populated ( cities )

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Wilderness Road

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A path that made crossing through the Appalachian mountains easier

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Daniel Boone

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A Tennessee explorer and pioneer that created the wilderness road

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Cumberland Gap

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A gap between the Appalachian mountains that led to Boone and others to create the wilderness road

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The Corrupt Bargain

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Adams made a deal with clay saying that if clay used his power in the house to defeat Jackson , then Adams would make clay Secretary of State

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Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank

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Replacing current government employees with supporters of the winner
Jacksons supporters abandoned the caucus system ( top party leaders chose the candidates for office

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Indian Removal Act

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  • allowed federal govn’t to pay Native Americans to move west.
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Trail of Tears

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Forced the Seminole and other eastern Native Americans to move west of the ms river

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Sequoyah

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Created the Native American alphabet

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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency

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  • tippycanoe and Tyler too

- died of pneumonia within two months because of long inoguration speech

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Manifest Destiny

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The belief of spreading over the entire continent east to west

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Texas Rebellion

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  • remember the Alamo

- declared their independence from Mexico

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The Alamo – battle significance

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A battle that helped lead the Texan forces to declare independence

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Davy Crockett

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  • A Texan leader in the battle of Alamo
  • folk hero
  • served three terms in congress
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Oregon Trail

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-a path for many emigrants trying to get to Oregon

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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?

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The “dark horse” president that fulfilled manifest destiny

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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession

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  • A war over Texas ‘s entry into the union and the disputed border between Mexico and Texas
  • the US said the border was along the rio grande river and Mexico said it was along the 🚨🚨🚨 river
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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush

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Found a gold nugget on his land , and then gold miners came and destroyed his land .

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Brigham Young

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Mormon leader that lead them to the great salt lake area and was later named governor

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Prevented slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri and allowed south of the line

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John Brown

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  • Believed in freedom for the slave population
  • led an attack killing five people in Kansas
  • led a raid on Harper’s ferry
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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 secret network of routes to help slaves escape from the south

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Frederick Douglass

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-The best known African American abolitionist

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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  • Portrayed the brutal last fe of the slaves

- best seller

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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  • Replaced the Missouri compromise

- said that each state voted on being slave or free

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Bleeding Kansas

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Fights that broke out in Kansas 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.
  • butlers 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

- he tried to acquire weapons from the base and arm slaves

47
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Dred Scott v Sandford

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  • dred Scott sued his owner for his freedom

- court ruled that Scott was still a slave , showing that the constitution protected slavery

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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech

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  • Senate race that became the center for national attention
  • Slavery was the main topic
  • Lincoln loses ,but gained a positive national reputation that would eventually lead him to the White House
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Election of 1860

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  • Lincoln becomes 16th president
  • got more votes in north
  • causes South Carolina to secede
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Causes of the Civil War

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  • Lincoln wins election

- Attack of fort Sumter

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Fort Sumter

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-it’s attack led to the civil war

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Union general

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Robert E. Lee

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Confederate general

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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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-First major battle of the civil war

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Anaconda Plan

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  • Union plan for war

- Defeat the south by dividing them in two

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54th Massachusetts

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  • beat known African American regiment

- (under command of Robert Gould shaw)

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The Battle of Gettysburg

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  • Union victory
  • 23,000 dead =Union
  • 25,000 dead = Confederate
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The Battle of Vicksburg

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  • Union victory

- lasted 47 days

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Sherman’s March to the Sea

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  • a march starting in Atlanta and burning things in its path

- represented a March of freedom for slaves

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Lee Surrendering to Grant

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  • They met at Appomattox court house

- ended with dignity and compassion

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13th Amendment

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Abolished slavery in 1865

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14th Amendment

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Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the us( including African Americans) in 1866

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15th Amendment

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Gave African Americans the right to vote in 1870

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Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death

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Fordes theater, John Wilkes Booth, Petersen House

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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction

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  • Lincoln’s 10% plan: forgiving on the south

- radical republicans: wanted a harsher readmission process

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Freedman’s Bureau

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An agency that helped newly freed slaves make the transition to freedom

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Segregation

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The separation of the races

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Jim Crow Laws

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Laws that required African Americans & whites to be separated in almost every public place

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Ku Klux Klan

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The largest anti- African American terrorist organization in the south

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