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1
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Election of 1800

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John Adams vs Thomas Jefferson

2 candidates had 73 electoral votes Thomas Jefferson and Arron burr

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Louisiana purchase

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France sells the territory for 15 million dollars

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Lewis and Clark

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They were sent to explore The Louisiana territory and discover resources

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Impressment and attack on Chesapeake

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The us sip Chesapeake was intercepted the captain refused and the British attacked

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5
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War hawk from the war of 1812

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Henry clay and John C Calhoun pushed for war

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War of 1812

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British marched and burned down D.C.
British soldiers attacked fort mchenry inspired star spangled banner
Battle of New Orleans happened after the war

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Star Spangled Banner

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Francis Scott key wrote it after the battle at Fort Mcchenry

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Monroe Doctrine

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West hemisphere was no longer open for colonization made by James Monroe

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Irish potatoes famine related to immigration

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The Irish had a potato famine which made them come to America for better farming

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10
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Convention

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She had a convention in Seneca Falls New York for women suffrage

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Industrial revolution

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A time of industrial advancement

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12
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Capitalism

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Where trade is controlled by private owners for profit

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13
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Free enterprise system

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Private business operate in competition free of state control

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14
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Supply and demand

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Supply- how much you have

Demand-the need or want for that product

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Number 1 crop in south

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Cotton, a labor intensive crop

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16
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Cotton Gin

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Made it mush faster to produce more cotton started the industrial revolution

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17
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Urban VS Rural

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Urban-big city

Rural-Small secluded area

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18
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Wilderness road

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Daniel Boone burned trail through Cumberland gap

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19
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Daniel Boone

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Burned Wilderness Road trail

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20
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Cumberland Gap

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Trail through the Appalachian mountains

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21
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Corrupt bargain

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Henry clay met with John Quincy Adams and used his influence to get Adams the votes

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Andrew Jackson

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Jackson tried to kill the bank by withdrawing all federal funds
He replaced his government officials with candidate supporters

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23
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Indian Removal Act

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Passed by congress in order to relocate Native Americans

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24
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Trail of Tears

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Rolocation of the Cherokee from Georgia into Oklahoma

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25
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Sequoyah

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Made the Cherokee alphabet

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26
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William H Harrison

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Gave inauguration speech that lasted over 2 days got pneumonia and died later he had shortest presidency 32 days

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27
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Manifest Destiny

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Belief America should extend to Pacific Ocean

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28
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Texas rebellion

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Stephen Austin recruited 300 Americans to settle land in Mexico

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29
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Alamo

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Defenders of Alamo bought Texans much more time

30
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Davy Crockett

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Backwoods man from TN who volunteered to fight at the Alamo

31
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Oregon trail

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Used by settlers going to Pacific Northwest

32
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James K Polk

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Fulfilled manifest destiny

33
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Mexican war

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Mexican troops attacked Zachary Taylor

34
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John sutter California gold rush

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John sutter found gold on his land started gold rush

35
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Brigham young

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Part of the second great awakening

36
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Missouri compromise of 1820

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Made Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state

37
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John brown

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Violent abolitionist believes God made him to stop slavery

38
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Harriet Tubman

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Escaped slave made Underground Railroad

39
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Underground Railroad

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To help slaves escape at night

40
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Frederick Douglas

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A escaped abolitionist

41
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Uncle toms cabin

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A book about slavery and the violence

42
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Fugitive slave act

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Required all citizen to capture runaway slaves

43
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Kansas Nebraska act

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Increased territory open to slave holding in us

44
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Bleeding Kansas

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Kansas was the first to have a civil war over slavery

45
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Summer brooks incident

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Charles sumner lashed against slavery Preston brooks beat him with a cane

46
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Raid on harpers ferry

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John brown led 18 men on a raid of a us weapon facility to start a slaveholder shootout but was stopped by Robert E Lee

47
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Dred Scott Vs Sanford

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Case that said that dred Scott couldn’t file a case because he was property stated the constitution supported slavery

48
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Lincoln Douglas debates

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Lincoln lost but gained positive support

49
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Election of 1860

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Lincoln becomes 16th president Lincoln said not to disturb slavery but the south didn’t trust him

50
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Cause of civil war

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South Carolina seceded from union and formed the CSA then 12 other states seceded

51
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Fort Sumter

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Confederate guns opened fire on fort Sumter after Lincoln said let them start the war

52
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Ulysses s grant

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Main general of north

53
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Robert E Lee

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Main south General

54
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Stonewall Jackson

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Led confederate troops at Bull Run

55
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Bull run

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First battle of the Civil War

56
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Anaconda plan

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Union plan to choke out the South

57
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54th Massachusetts

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Most well known African American regiment

58
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Gettysburg

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Union forces were greatly outnumbered and forced to retreat Lee told General Pickett to charge the Yankees out the Yankees easily killed the rebels and Lee took the blame for losing the battle

59
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Vicksburg

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The turning point in the war

60
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Shermans march to the sea

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Marched to and burned Atlanta then marched to savanna Georgia

61
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Lees surrender

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Robert Lee surrendered to Grant in a small town in Virginia called Appromatax Couthouse

62
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13th amendment

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Abolished slavery in 1865

63
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14th amendment

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Full citizen ship to anyone born in US 1866

64
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15th amendment

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Male African Americans can vote in 1870

65
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Lincoln assanation

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Lincoln was shot at Fords Theatre by John Wilkes Boothe and died at the Petersen house

66
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10 percent plan and radical republicans plan

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10 percent was very forgiving readmission plan radical rebublican wanted harsher process

67
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Freeman’s bureau

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Help slaves transition into free people

68
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Segregation

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Separation of the races

69
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Jim Crow laws

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Kept whites and blacks separated in public

70
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Ku klux klan

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Americas first terrorist group that were violent to African Americans

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