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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, decided by the HoR

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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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Explore this territory and its resources

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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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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Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun

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

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Burned the Capital, presidents mansion down, and the Library of Congress

The Fort at the entrance to the Baltimore Harbor

Took place after the peace treaty was signed

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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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Put in place due to many Latin American nations gaining independence from Spain at this time

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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Potatoes got a disease and they moved because people who ate them were dying

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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First women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York

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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 profit

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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 when they wish

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Supply and Demand

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Amount you have and what the people want

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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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Allowed complete products to be made by using identical machine parts, important to slaves to make their work easier

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Urban vs Rural

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U-city

R-country

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Wilderness Road

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Route to Kentucky from the Atlantic coast, aided the early exploration of Tennessee because passing through mountains was easier

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Daniel Boone

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Blazed trail that became Wilderness Road, long hunter

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Cumberland Gap

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Allowed a path to make passing trough the Appalachian mountains easier

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The Corrupt Bargain

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Henry Clay meets with John Adams and agrees to use his influence to help Adams get the vote in the HoR

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Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank

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Practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidates

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Indian Removal Act

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Passes by Congress in order to relocate Native Americans, modern day Oklahoma

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Trail of Tears

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Relocation and movement of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

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Sequoyah

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Known for creating the written Cherokee language

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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency

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9th president only for 32 days, inauguration speech was over two hours

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Manifest Destiny

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

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Texas Rebellion

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

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The Alamo – battle significance

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Defenders to the Alamo bought Texans much needed time

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Davy Crockett

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Backwoodsman from TN 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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11th President, unexpected winner

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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession

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US thinks the border is the Rio Grande River, Mexico thinks it is the Nueces River

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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush

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Obtained land in California, 1sr to discover gold on his property

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Brigham Young

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Led migration group to Salt Lake City, Utah

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Helped preserve the balance between the north and south, made Maine a free state and Missouri 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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Famous conductor of 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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Frederick Douglass

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Most well known African American Abolitionist, worked hard to become a powerful speaker of wisdom

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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, anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be fined

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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 open to Slaveholding in the US

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Sumner-Brooks Incident

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Senator Charles Sumner lashed out against those for slavery

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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, he hoped to start a rebellion against slave holders

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Dred Scott v Sandford

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“Dred Scott Decision”, March 6, 1857

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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech

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“I believe that this 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 become 16th president

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Causes of the Civil War

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Fort Sumnter Attack

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Fort Sumter

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Beginning of civil war

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Ulysses S. Grant

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18th president

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Robert E. Lee

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Against slavery, fought on Confederate side

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Stonewall Jackson

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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 War plan to defeat the South by dividing them in two

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54th Massachusetts

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Most well know African American regiment

58
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The Battle of Gettysburg

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Lee plans an attack that he hoped would create a panic and destroy the army

59
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The Battle of Vicksburg

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……

60
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Sherman’s March to the Sea

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…..

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Lee Surrendering to Grant

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April 9th, 1865, at Appomattox Court House

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13th Amendment

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Abolished slavery

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14th Amendment

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Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the US

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15th Amendment

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Gave African American men right to vote

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Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death

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Fords Theater, John Wilkes Booth, Peterson House

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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction

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10% of voters pledged loyalty to Union

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Freedman’s Bureau

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Agency that helped African Americans make transition to freedom, established by Lincoln and Congress

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Segregation

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Separation of races

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Jim Crow Laws

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Required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place in the south

70
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Ku Klux Klan

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Largest anti-African American terrorist organization in the south

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