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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. Jefferson wins

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Louisiana Purchase

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U.S. Bought the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Convinced people to move West

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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Causes of the War of 1812

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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Wanted war

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

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The Star Spangled Banner

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Written by At Fort McHenry

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Monroe Doctrine

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Said that America didn’t want new European colonies in the Americas

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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People left because of the famine

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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

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Industrial Revolution

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Change from agrarian to industrial

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Capitalism

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Money is put into a business in hopes of it making a profit

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Free Enterprise System

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People can sell, buy, and produce what the want.

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Supply and Demand

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Cost is set by demand and so is 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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Spilt the cotton from the seeds. Made farming cotton much easier

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Urban vs Rural

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urben– city

Rural– county

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Wilderness Road

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The route to Kentucky from the Atlantic Coast

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Daniel Boone

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Blazed the Wilderness Trail

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Cumberland Gap

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An easy path through the Appalachian Mountains

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The Corrupt Bargain

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Henry Clay convinced Congress to vote for John Quincy Adams

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Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank

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Spoils System–Replacing employees with winning candidate supporters

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Indian Removal Act

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Relocated Native Americans to Oklahoma

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Trail of Tears

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Movement of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma.

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Sequoyah

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Created Written Cherokee language

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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency

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Lasted 32 days

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Manifest Destiny

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America should be from sea to sea

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Texas Rebellion

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Was a rebbe,ion against Mexican rule. Texas became the Lone Star Republic

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The Alamo – battle significance

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Gave the Texans much needed time

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Davy Crockett

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Died in the Alomo

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Oregon Trail

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Used to get to the Pacific Northwest

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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?

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Manifest Destiny

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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession

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Texas border dispute leads to the war

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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush

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Shutter found the first gold in California. People flocked to California

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Brigham Young

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Lead the Morman’s to Utah

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Maine entered as free, Missouri as slave

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John Brown

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Violent abolonist

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Harriet Tubman

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Conducted on the Underground Railroad

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Underground Railroad

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Escape route from the south to the north

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Frederick Douglass

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Most well known abolitionist

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Showed what being a slave was really like

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Required all people to help capture escaped slaves. Caused more anger in the North

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Allowed for the people of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on weather they would be a slave or free state

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Bleeding Kansas

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First territory to have a Civil war over slavery

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Sumner-Brooks Incident

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Charles Sumner lashed out at Andrew Butler, hit in the head by Preston Brooke’s

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Raid on Harper’s Ferry

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John Brown hoped to arm slaves to rebel against their former masters. Didn’t work.

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Dred Scott v Sandford

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Said that the Constitution protected slavery

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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech

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Lincoln said that the county would become either fully slave or fully free

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Election of 1860

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Lincoln is elected president

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Causes of the Civil War

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States rights and slavery

51
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Fort Sumter

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Started the Civil War

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Lead general of the Union

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Robert E. Lee

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Lead general of the Confederacy

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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 plan to cut the South in two

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54th Massachusetts

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Most well known African American regiment

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The Battle of Gettysburg

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Turning point of the Civil War

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The Battle of Vicksburg

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Turning point of the Civil War

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Sherman’s March to the Sea

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Burned Atlanta, Georgia

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Lee Surrendering to Grant

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Happened at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

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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 everyone born in the USA

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15th Amendment

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Gave African American men the right to vote

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Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death

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Ford’s Theater, John Wilkes Booth, The Peterson House

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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction

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10 percent plan– forgiving to the South

Radical Republican plan– harsher on the South

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Freedman’s Bureau

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Helped African Americans adjust to freedom

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Segregation

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Keeping the races separate

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Jim Crow Laws

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Required African Americans and Whites to be separate in almost every public place

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Ku Klux Klan

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Largest anti-African American terrorist organization

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