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Final 150 Part 2 Corrections Flashcards

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What event was fought over bringing independence to the eventual Lone Star Republic?

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Texas Rebellion

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What aspect of our economy states that the products, prices, and services will be determined by the markets and not the government?

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Free Enterprise System

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What event allowed John Quincy Adams to defeat Andrew Jackson after getting help from Henry Clay?

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The Corrupt Bargain

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Who is the violent abolitionist who thought that God put him on Earth to put an end to slavery and reacted to Bleeding Kansas?

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John Brown

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What is the system where escaped slaves were helped to make their way to freedom in the North?

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Underground Railroad

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What was the name of Lincoln’s Plan of Reconstruction that was very forgiving towards the South?

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10 Percent Plan

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What item removed the seed from the cotton plant, making it easier to spin the fibers into usable products?

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Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin

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What is the concept where Americans believe it was their God given right to expand all the way from Atlantic to Pacific?

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Manifest Destiny

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Who is the man who brought the Mormon to Utah after Joseph Smith was killed?

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Brigham Young

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What concept determines the costs for the items that we buy?

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Supply and Demand

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What is the nam for the event when violence broke out over a rigged election allowed slavery in this territory?

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Bleeding Kansas

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What path helped lead settlers into the Pacific Northwest and helped establish the city of Portland?

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Oregon Trail

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What trail helped making passing through the Appalachian Mountains easier and followed for more people to move into Tennessee and Kentucky?

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Wilderness Road

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What location in Charleston, SC is where the first shots were fired in the Civil War?

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Fort Sumter

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What law opened up two territories to possibly allowing slavery in their regions, even though they were both North of the Free State-Slave State Line?

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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What war was started over disputed border territory between the Rio Grenade and the Nueces Rivers?

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Mexican War

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What law said that the Native Americans had to be relocated out of the American southeast to land designated for them west of the Mississippi?

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Indian Removal Act

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What act of congress tried to keep the balance between free states and slave states and had a line go across the nation to determine if new states were free or slave states?

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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What event tried to start a slave uprising by taking over a weapons storage facility in Virginia and then give the weapons to those escaped slaves?( This Plan did not work out and John Brown was captured)

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Raid on Harper’s Ferry

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What event featured the first transfer of political party power in American History when Thomas Jefferson became the first Democratic-Republican president?

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Election of 1800

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What was he name for the Union war plan in the Civil War?

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Anaconda Plan

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What was written after the attack at Fort McHenry by Francis Scott Key?

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The Star Spangled Banner

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What court case over a slave’s right to be free when entering free territory reaffirmed that the Constitution protected Slavery?

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Dred Scott v Sandford

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What event helped show how divided our nation had become at this time when one Congressman attacked another Congressman with his cane in the middle of a meeting?

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Sumner-Brooks Incident

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What Confederate General was well known for helping to turn the tide of the 1st Battle of Bull Run , where he acquired his famous nickname?

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Stonewall Jackson

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Who owned the land where gold was first discovered that led to the Gold Rush?

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John Sutter

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What group of people came up with the eventual active plan for reconstruction that was rash towards the south?

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Radical Republicans Plans for Reconstruction

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What is the name for the forced relation of the Cherokee out of Georgia, even though they won Worcester v Georgia?

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Trail of Tears

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Who is the President that fulfilled Manifest Dynasty?

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James K. Polk

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What event caused a great number of immigrants to move to America after many people were left starving in their homeland?

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Irish Potato Famine

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13th Amendment

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Abolished slavery in 1865

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14th Amendment

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Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the US, including African Americans in 1866

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15th Amendment

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Gave African American Men the right to vote in 1870

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What is Urban?

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City

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What is Rural?

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Country

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Who is the 9th President and is also known as Tipeconoe?

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William Henry Harrison

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Who is the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

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Harriet Tubman

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Who is the former congressman and backwoods man from Tennessee who volunteered at the Alamo?

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Davy Crocket

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Who is the most well known African American abolitionist that edited on an anti slavery newspaper called the “North Star”?

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Frederick Douglass

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What was tension between the North and South over the issue of slavery the cause of?

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Causes of the Civil War

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The hat is the largest anti African American terrorist organization in the south

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Ku Klux Klan

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What marked the beginning of the Civil War?

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Fort Sumter

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Who is the 18th president who fought in the battle of Shilo?

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Who was opposed to slavery but still fought on the confederate side because he was a proud Virginian that would not fight against his own state?

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Robert E. Lee

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What was the first major battle of the Civil War?

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First battle of Bull Run

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What was the turning point of the Civil along with the battle of Gettysburg?

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The battle of Vicksburg

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What was the agency that helped African Americans make the transition to freedom?

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Freedmans’ Bureau

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What is the separation of the races?

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Segregation

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What was the expedition where 2 people followed the Missouri River on their trip to the Pacific Ocean?

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Who were people who pushed for war with Great Britain such as Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun?

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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What is when individuals put their capital into a business in hopes of making profit?

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Capitalism

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What was allowed for a path to be created that made passing through the Appalachian Mountains easier?

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Cumberland Gap

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What was the relocation and movement of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma?

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Trail of tears

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Who was the 7th President and was also known as “Old Hickory”?

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Andrew Jackson

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