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Final 150 Part 2 Flashcards

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Election of 1800

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First election decided by the House of Representatives. (John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson)

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Louisiana Purchase

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15 million

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Missouri to organ coast. Traveling out west

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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One of the main causes of the war of 1812

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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People that pushed for war with GB

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

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All major events in the war of 1812

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The Star Spangled Banner

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Wrote during the battle of fort McHenery

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Monroe Doctrine

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The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823.

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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Made the Irish come to the us

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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Helping women’s suffrage

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Industrial Revolution

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The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes

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Capitalism

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an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

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Free Enterprise System

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a government places very few restrictions on the types of business activities or ownership in which citizens participate

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Supply and Demand

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Drives cost up and down

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Number One Crop in the South in the 1800’s

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Tobacco

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

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Made cotton way easier to pick

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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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Easier passage to the west

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Daniel Boone

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Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman,

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Cumberland Gap

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Passage through the Appalachian mountains

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The Corrupt Bargain

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To the surprise of many, the House elected John Quincy Adams over rival Andrew Jackson. It was widely believed that Clay, the Speaker of the House at the time, convinced Congress to elect Adams, who then made Clay his Secretary of State. Jackson’s supporters denounced this as a “corrupt bargain.”

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Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank

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Indian Removal Act

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Took all Indians out of lands the us wanted

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Trail of Tears

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Trail that the Indians took to Oklahoma

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Sequoyah

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Cherokee language

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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency

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Shortest term served by a president

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Manifest Destiny

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Belief that the US should stretch from Atlantic to pacific

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Texas Rebellion

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The Texas Revolution was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos in putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico

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The Alamo – battle significance

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Gave the rest of the army time to regroup and win the rest of the war

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Davy Crockett

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frontiersman, soldier, and politician

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Oregon Trail

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The Oregon Trail is a 2,170-mile historic East–West, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon

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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?

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Grew the country by 1/2

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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession

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Fight over we’re the border of Texas should be

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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush

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Gold was found in California and everyone went to California to mine for it

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Brigham Young

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American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Helped decide what states could have slaves or not

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John Brown

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John Brown was an American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.

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Harriet Tubman

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Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people, family and friends

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Underground Railroad

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Way of freeing slaves to the north

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Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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is an anti-slavery novel

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Tracking of runaway slaves

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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.

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Bleeding Kansas

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was a series of violent confrontations in the United States

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Sumner-Brooks Incident

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Raid on Harper’s Ferry

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John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

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Dred Scott v Sandford

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Dred Scott sued because he was taken to a free so that made him free. He lost the case

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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech

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The debates were about slavery

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Election of 1860

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Lincoln vs Douglass

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Causes of the Civil War

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States rights over slavery

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Fort Sumter

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site of the first shots fired in the American Civil War.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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United States Army general during the American Civil War

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Robert E. Lee

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commander of the Confederate States Army.

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