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Final 150 Part 2 Flashcards

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Election of 1800

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As the first peaceful transition of political power between opposing parties in U.S. history

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Louisiana Purchase

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gave the U.S. control of the Mississippi River

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Expedition through the Louisiana territory to the Pacific Ocean.

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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Causes of war 1812

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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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Causes were impressment of soilders and attack on Chesapeake

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The Star Spangled Banner

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Song made for the us flag

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Monroe Doctrine

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meant to stop European influence in the Americas

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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The potatos got a disease and they had to move because people who ate them were dying

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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After She helped organize the world’s first women’s rights convention

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Industrial Revolution

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transition to new manufacturing processes

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Capitalism

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Economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners

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Free Enterprise System

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Govt makes few restrictions on businesses and is a “free market”

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Supply and Demand

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The amount of the thing u can buy

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Number One Crop in the South in the 1800’s

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Cotten

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

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It made Cotten materials and important so it was quicker to sell or make things

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Urban vs Rural

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Urban is more cities and rural is more lower level of living

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Wilderness Road

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Road maid to make it easier to go thru mountains and opened the door to settlement

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Daniel Boone

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Long hunter and an American wilderness explorer

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Cumberland Gap

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Allowed for a path to be created in the Appalachian mountains

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The Corrupt Bargain

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When the 1824 election ended without any candidate receiving a majority votes

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Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank

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Indian Removal Act

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Had the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands.

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Trail of Tears

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series of forced relocations of Native American peoples from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to Indian tritories

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Sequoyah

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Cherokee silversmith

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26
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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency

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Had the shortest presidency term

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Manifest Destiny

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belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable

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Texas Rebellion

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rebellion of colonists from the United States

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29
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The Alamo – battle significance

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Many things were invented that we use now days

30
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Davy Crockett

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Frointeers man. Soilder. And politician

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Oregon Trail

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TRail used by a lot of a,American pioneers

32
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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?

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The growth of America by 1/3

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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession

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34
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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush

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John Sutter’s land was where they first found gold which soonly turned into the California gold rush

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Brigham Young

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American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement

36
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

37
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John Brown

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Violent abolitionist that beloved god sent him to end slavery

38
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Harriet Tubman

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Was a slave then escaped and is the leader of Underground Railroad

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Underground Railroad

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A network of passage ways used to free slaves as they escaped

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Frederick Douglass

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A-A social reformer

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Anti slave novel

42
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Fugitive Slave Act

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The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves

43
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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders

44
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Bleeding Kansas

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series of violent confrontations in the United States which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas

45
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Sumner-Brooks Incident

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Brooks attacked Sumner an abolitionist, with a walking cane in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner

46
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Raid on Harper’s Ferry

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an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia

47
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Dred Scott v Sandford

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Dread Scott was a slave and his owner was Sanford

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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

49
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Election of 1860

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Lincoln becomes 16th president

50
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Causes of the Civil War

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States’ Rights.
Expansion.
Slavery.

51
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Fort Sumter

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In Charleston South Carolina notable for two battles of the American Civil War

52
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Ulysses S. Grant

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Union leader

53
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Robert E. Lee

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Confederate leader

54
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Stonewall Jackson

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Considered one of the most gifted tactical commanders in us history

55
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First Battle of Bull Run

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also known as the First Battle of Manassas

56
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Anaconda Plan

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Union’s strategic plan to defeat the Confederacy at the start of the American Civil War

57
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54th Massachusetts

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When blacks could fight in war

58
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The Battle of Gettysburg

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Union forces are greatly outnumbered and forces to retreat

59
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The Battle of Vicksburg

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The battle at Vicksburg

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final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War

61
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Sherman’s March to the sea

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military campaign of the American Civil War through Georgia

62
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Lee Surrendering to Grant

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Lee had a stronger arme but not as many people as grant so he knew they were gonna die so he surrendered

63
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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 us including aa’s

65
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15th Amendment

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Gave A-A men right to vote in 1870

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Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death

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Fords theater
John Wilkes booth
Peterson house

67
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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction

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Forgiving south and wanted a harsher readmission process

68
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Freedman’s Bureau

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It freed all men

69
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Segregation

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Separation of the races

70
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Jim Crow Laws

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Laws that made witches and aa!s to be separated in almost every public place

71
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Ku Klux Klan

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Largest anti African American terriost organization in the south

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