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Growth Of A Nation Flashcards

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The Erie Canal

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Connects New York City, makes it most important city

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Thomas Jeffersons Revolution of 1800

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First time 1 group gives up power on the bases of an election

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The 49th parallel represents

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The longest unfortified border in the world

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The Supreme Court Chief Justice who carried out the ideas of Alexander Hamilton and Federalists (strengthening the national government)

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John Marshall

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Results of the Louisiana Purchase

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Doubled US size
Vast natural resources
Gain control of the Mississippi River
Strengthened the natural government by setting a precedent of purchased land

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The Monroe Doctrine States

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The U.S. Will not interfere with existing European colonies
Any further European interference would be considered unfriendly and dangerous to the U.S
US will not interfere with European affairs

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Henry Clay’s American System included

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Bank of US
Federally fund roads, bridges, and canals
Industrialization in the northeast, south becomes a cash crop economy

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Marbury vs. Madison 1803

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Judicial review

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Cohens vs. Virginia 1821

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State law was reviewed by the court

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Rush-Bagot Treaty 1817

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First disarmament no warships on the Great Lakes

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Adams Onis Treaty 1819

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Purchase a Florida

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Russo American treaty 1824

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54 40N

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Webster-Ashburton 1841

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Masabi iron ore range (largest iron ore deposit)

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No slavery in territories North of the line

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36 30 N.

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US/British Canadian border

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49 N.

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Southern boundary of Russia-owned Alaska

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54 40N.

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Nationalism

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Sense of unity based on pridein one’s nation, race, or ethnic group

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Nullification

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State voiding a national law

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Sedition

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Speech that urges resistance

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Napoleon Sold Louisiana to the US primarily because

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To keep it away from the English

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Thomas Jefferson objected to Hamiltons plan for the national Bank because

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Power should be for state, build alliance with wealthy

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Washington’s farewell address

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Beware of political parties
Beware of sectionalism
Call for isolationism
Avoid all alliances
Present should only served two terms
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The two federalist presidents of the US were

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John Adams

George Washington

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Nullification Crisis

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“States have the right to nullify federal laws”

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South Carolina Exposition and Protest

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Nullification, Calhoun

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Webster-Hayne Debates

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Webster predicated nullification would lead to succession and disunion

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Sectional Economics

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American system, cash crops in the south, Northeast manufacturing

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Clay’s compromise

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Gradual lowering of tariff until 1816 level

Didn’t answer the nullification question

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Missouri compromise

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Missouri admitted as a slave state
Main comes in free to balance Missouri
Slavery forbidden north of 36 30 line

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Forces of Nationalism

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Rush Bagot
Convention of 1818
Admas Onis
Russo American
Webster Ashburton
Monroe Doctrine
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War of 1812 as second war for independence

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Freedom of the seas
Emerican ersentment of the British
Expansionism
R-E-S-P-E-C-T

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Eli Whitney’s effect on slavery

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Made a demand for it

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Noah Webster

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Americanized the English language

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Francis Scott Key

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Wrote the star spangled banner

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Sam Houston

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Horseshoe Bend

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Andrew Jackson

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Battle of New Orleans

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Hartford Convention

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Last gasp of the federalists, they threatened to succeed

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Treaty of Ghent

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Ended the war of 1812

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Transcendentalists stressed ideas of

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Self reliance

Democratic Individuality

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The Seneca Falls convention called for

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Equal work and the right to vote for women

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Leaves of Grass, Laureate of Deomcracy

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Walt Witman

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Liberal religious belief

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Deism

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What did the early American Utopian experiments focus on?

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Communal economics

Alternative marriage arrangements

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Who pushed for national parks

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George Catlin

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Major supporter of an effective tax supported school system for children

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Horace Mann

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Know Nothing party objective

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restriction of the rights of immigrants

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America’s passion for equality and individualism arose as a result of

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an abstinence of aristocracy

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Seneca Falls was a protest against

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The unequal treatment of woman

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Frederick Jackson Turner focused on the importance of

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unsettled land is shaping our fronteir

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The second great awakening…

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reversed the tendency toward rationalism and indifference in religion

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Washington Irving and James Cooper…

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Wrote about early life in America

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Pioneer in the campaign for woman’s suffrage was

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Elizabeth Stanton

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Doctrine by Henry Thoreau that influenced ghnadi

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Civil Disobedience

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Experiment in Massachusetts based on “plain living and high thinking”

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brook farm

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Who was the Mormon Moses?

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Neil Young

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Important result of the Tariff of Abominations in 1828 was

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South Carolina exposition and protest nullification

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This statement best reflects views of

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Andrew Jackson

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Argued states should have the ultimate authority to decide constitutional laws.

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Calhoun

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Dorthea Dix

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better treatment of the mentally ill

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Gained followers among the common people of the west and south

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Methodists and baptists

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Cohens v Virginia 1821

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Supreme Court reviewed state court decision

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Fletcher v Peck 1810

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Supreme Court reviewed a state law

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Convention of 1818

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Established US/Canadian border

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Sam Houston

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Horseshoe bend

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Andrew Jackson battle

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Battle of New Orleans

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Two woman noted for their work in founding schools

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Mary Lyon

Emma Willard

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Lewis and Clark expedition

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Missouri River
At Louis river
Scientific expedition
Sacajawea

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