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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
Created Written Cherokee language
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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency
Lasted 32 days
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Manifest Destiny
America should be from sea to sea
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Texas Rebellion
Was a rebbe,ion against Mexican rule. Texas became the Lone Star Republic
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The Alamo – battle significance
Gave the Texans much needed time
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Davy Crockett
Died in the Alomo
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Oregon Trail
Used to get to the Pacific Northwest
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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?
Manifest Destiny
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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession
Texas border dispute leads to the war
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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush
Shutter found the first gold in California. People flocked to California
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Brigham Young
Lead the Morman's to Utah
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Maine entered as free, Missouri as slave
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John Brown
Violent abolonist
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Harriet Tubman
Conducted on the Underground Railroad
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Underground Railroad
Escape route from the south to the north
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Frederick Douglass
Most well known abolitionist
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Showed what being a slave was really like
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Fugitive Slave Act
Required all people to help capture escaped slaves. Caused more anger in the North
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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
First territory to have a Civil war over slavery
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Sumner-Brooks Incident
Charles Sumner lashed out at Andrew Butler, hit in the head by Preston Brooke's
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Raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown hoped to arm slaves to rebel against their former masters. Didn't work.
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Dred Scott v Sandford
Said that the Constitution protected slavery
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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech
Lincoln said that the county would become either fully slave or fully free
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Election of 1860
Lincoln is elected president
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Causes of the Civil War
States rights and slavery
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Fort Sumter
Started the Civil War
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Ulysses S. Grant
Lead general of the Union
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Robert E. Lee
Lead general of the Confederacy
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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 plan to cut the South in two
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54th Massachusetts
Most well known African American regiment
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The Battle of Gettysburg
Turning point of the Civil War
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The Battle of Vicksburg
Turning point of the Civil War
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Sherman’s March to the Sea
Burned Atlanta, Georgia
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Lee Surrendering to Grant
Happened at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
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13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery
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14th Amendment
Gave full citizenship to everyone born in the USA
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15th Amendment
Gave African American men the right to vote
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Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death
Ford's Theater, John Wilkes Booth, The Peterson House
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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction
10 percent plan-- forgiving to the South | Radical Republican plan-- harsher on the South
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Freedman’s Bureau
Helped African Americans adjust to freedom
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Segregation
Keeping the races separate
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Jim Crow Laws
Required African Americans and Whites to be separate in almost every public place
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Ku Klux Klan
Largest anti-African American terrorist organization

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