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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
Known for creating the written Cherokee language
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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency
9th president only for 32 days, inauguration speech was over two hours
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Manifest Destiny
Belief that America should extend it boundaries all the way to the Pacific Ocean
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Texas Rebellion
Stephen F. Austin recruited 300 American families to help him settle land in Mexico
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The Alamo – battle significance
Defenders to the Alamo bought Texans much needed time
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Davy Crockett
Backwoodsman from TN who volunteered to fight at the Alamo
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Oregon Trail
Used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest
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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?
11th President, unexpected winner
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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession
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
Obtained land in California, 1sr to discover gold on his property
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Brigham Young
Led migration group to Salt Lake City, Utah
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820
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
Violent abolitionist that believed god had chosen him to end slavery
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Harriet Tubman
Famous conductor of Underground Railroad
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Underground Railroad
Network of escape routes out of the south for enslaved people
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Frederick Douglass
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
Novel that explored the issue of slavery
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Fugitive Slave Act
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
Increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the US
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Bleeding Kansas
Kansas became the first territory open to Slaveholding in the US
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Sumner-Brooks Incident
Senator Charles Sumner lashed out against those for slavery
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Raid on Harper’s Ferry
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
"Dred Scott Decision", March 6, 1857
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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech
"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
Lincoln become 16th president
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Causes of the Civil War
Fort Sumnter Attack
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Fort Sumter
Beginning of civil war
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Ulysses S. Grant
18th president
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Robert E. Lee
Against slavery, fought on Confederate side
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Stonewall Jackson
One of the most gifted tactical commanders in US history
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First Battle of Bull Run
First major battle of the Civil War
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Anaconda Plan
Union War plan to defeat the South by dividing them in two
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54th Massachusetts
Most well know African American regiment
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The Battle of Gettysburg
Lee plans an attack that he hoped would create a panic and destroy the army
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The Battle of Vicksburg
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Sherman’s March to the Sea
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Lee Surrendering to Grant
April 9th, 1865, at Appomattox Court House
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13th Amendment
Abolished slavery
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14th Amendment
Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the US
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15th Amendment
Gave African American men right to vote
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Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death
Fords Theater, John Wilkes Booth, Peterson House
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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction
10% of voters pledged loyalty to Union
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Freedman’s Bureau
Agency that helped African Americans make transition to freedom, established by Lincoln and Congress
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Segregation
Separation of races
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Jim Crow Laws
Required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place in the south
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Ku Klux Klan
Largest anti-African American terrorist organization in the south

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