History Flashcards
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What year was the Louisiana Purchase?
1803
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When did the slave trade end?
25th March 1807
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What percentage of Southerners owned slaves?
25%
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What percentage of exports were cotton in 1820?
42%
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What was manifest destiny?
Idea that settlers were destined to expand across America into the west.
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What were the Great Plains?
2 million square mines of land
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Nomadic meaning
Moving around
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What were mountain men?
White settlers that moved to the Rocky Mountains to trap animals and sell fur in Europe. They got on well with Natives
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Who traveled to the west? (3)
Migrants (manifest destiny)
Mormons escaping religious persecution
People seeking gold
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What tribes were in the Great Plains? (3)
Apache, Cheyenne, Lakota Sioux
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Lakota Sioux (6)
Nomadic, relied on horses (cikitaitas), relied on buffalo, mainly monogamous, spiritual/connected with nature, traded with French until 1776
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The Apache (6)
Southwest plains by 1600s, used buffalo, corn from other tribes, nomadic horse culture, used guns to raid tribes instead of trade, warriors feared.