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Who was the candidate who was electies president as a result of what Some Americans to belived to be a bad political deal

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John Quincy Adams

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Why was the election of 1824 Not in the spirit of Jacksonian Democracy

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IT had been stolen from him by Adams who was a wealthy and had a high social position

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What was the central principal of Jacksonian democracy

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The idea of spreiding political power to all the people and ensuring majority rule

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What was Andrew Jackson’S principal of rewarding his political Backers called

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Spoils system

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What president’s election ended control of the goverment by an educatief elite

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Andrew Jackson

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What political leader from SC was a strong nationalist before becoming a champion of States rights

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John C. Calhoun

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Explain Why the Tariff passed in 1828was called the TAriff of Abomination

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Congress passed a LAW that raised the price on RAW materiaal and manufactured goods-the south felt like the North’s interesse were determining national policy

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Why was Andrew Jackson opposed to the doctrine of nullification

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Jackson wantend a goverment with a strong president and the Doctrine of nullification would wraken the president’s power

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What was the forced journey of the Cherokee people from their Georgia homeland to the indian territory become known as

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Trail of tears

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Why were the cherokees forced to move west

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Gold was discovered in Georgia

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Why was Seqouya an important figure

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Invented a writing system for the Cherokee language, th Cherokee learned to read and write

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Who supported Jascksons goal of preserving the union, but as a founder of the whig party was Jacksons enemy

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Martian Van Buren

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What led to the development of the panic of 1837

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Inflation-> in prices < in value of $

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Who was responsible for the nations money supply during most of Jacksons presidency

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Nicolas Budel

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Why dis Andrew Jackson dislike the National bank and decide to attack iT

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Distrusted bank-lost money, thought iT had to much power, hurt average citizens
Saïd the bank was a monoply that favored few at the expense of many

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Andrew Jackson

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President of the U.S. two terms, leader in the war, represented the common man

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Martin Van Buren

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VP to president Jackson and was his sucessor, founded the whig party

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John C. Calhoun

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Electies to U.S. Congress became a leader, strong central goverment, proposed the doctrine of nulification

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Describe the pop. Of CA before the Arrival of the forty-niners

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150,000 NA 8,000-12,000 californios

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Who were the two men who ar most closely liked with the Discovery of gold in CA

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John Sutter and James Marshall

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Who were the people who went to CA during the gold rush

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The Forty-Niners

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What route did miners take to reach CA

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  1. Sail 18,000 Miles around SA up the pacific
  2. Sail to narrow ithmus of Panama cross overland then sail to CA
  3. travel the trails of North America
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Who owned the Mill that the Discovery of gold in CA was near

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John Sutter

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How long did iT take after the gold rush for California to become a State

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IT took four years for California to have enough people

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What groep of Americans Southtown religous freedom in the west

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The Mormans

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What “phrase” did Americans use to explain their expansion westward

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“From sea to spinnig sea”

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What route did most missionaris and farmers moving into the Far West

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The Oregon trail

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Where did the donner party begin their ill-fated journey

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Independence,Missouri

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Describe the relationship between the tejanos and Americans living in TX

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Americans resented following Mexican laws, slavery was outlawed
Tejanos thought Americans were superior to them they seemed unwilling to adapt to american laws

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What dis Americans have against their goverment in Mexico

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Resented following laws, no slaves, had to pay taxes and speak language

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Who commanded the TX Army and was also president of the Texas Republic

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Sam Houston

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How did the U.S. goverment gaan control of Texas

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Debated whether to accept as a territory- after 10 years was acepted and angered mexicans

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James K. Polk

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11th president, supported the westward expansion, dark hourse candidate, wantend to avoid conflict with Britian

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Zachary Taylor

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General in charge of troops, stationed troops along border of disputen territory, was ambushed by the Mexican Calvary Unit

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Stephen Austin

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Arrived in Mexico and got land from Mexico started a Colony and got 297 hardworking families to come to his Colony

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Sam Houston

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Placed in charge of the Texan Army and was electies president of the Texas Republic

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What was the Main objectieve of the nativists

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Native-Born Americans who wantend to eliminTe foriegn influence

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What was the Know-nothing party-members

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A political group started by the nativists-ban Catholics and foriegn holding office- nativists were members

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Severe dood shortage that results in widespread hunger and fear

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Famine

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Examples of a push factor

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Population growth
Agricultural change
Crop failures
Industrial Revolution
Religious and political turmoil
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What was the cheapest way to travel by ship to America

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Steerage

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People who come to a country

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Immigrantes

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Who was the slave that escapes and Made dangerous trips back to help other slaves escape

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Harriet Tubman

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Public schools spread across North America due to what

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Horace Mann called education “the great equalizer” many States opened up collages espesially in the North

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How did the SGA influence Americans

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Preachers Saïd anyone could choose Salvation Americans began to believe they could act to make things better

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What Made shakers different than most Americans

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People who shook with emotion during Church services

They did not have children and had a calm life

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What way of thinking stressend the spiritual world more than the physical

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Transcendentalism

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What did the woman rights movements and abolition movements have in common

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Both groups wantend equal rights

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Why did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott Organize the Seneca Falls Convention

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For Women’s rights

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What Made the convention an important event

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Attacted 100-300 men and women and women called for ewual rights, all were given exept the right to vote

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Who led movements to improve treatment for the mentally ill in the U.S.

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Dorothea Dix

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What effort was Made to help Workers in the 1830’s and 40’s

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Labor Union and strike

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What connected the Temp. Movement and Women

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Many women joined because their husbands spent their money on Alchohal leaving Family with little money

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Frederick Douglass

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An abolitionist speaker who escapes from a plantation and wrote an autobiography

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Sojourner Truth

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Another abolitionist speaker who fles from her owners and attracted huge crowds in the North

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Harriet Tubman

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Escapes slavery and Made 19 trips to the south to help other slaves escape

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Part of an anti-slavery comvention was not allowed to speak in public- sta quietly behind a curtain

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Horace Mann

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Was head of the first board of education in Massachusetts helped lead the way for public schools and collages

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How did the outbreak of the war with mexico revive disagreements over slavery

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The land gained dividend congress on how to admit California and the other land to the nation

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What was the Kansas-Nebraska act

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Douglas suggusted the territories decide whether they are free or slave by popular soverenty. PS- system were the residents decide on an issue

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What was a provison of the Compromise of 1850

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Proposed by Henry Clay

  1. CA would be free and slavery would be abolished in Washington to plens North
  2. stronger laws on slavery and no laws regarding iT in the New Territories
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What was the Crittenden plan

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A Compromise introduced in 1860 that might have preventief secesssion

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What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act

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To help slave owners capture runaway slaves iT requiered northerners to help capture runaway slaves

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Who was the abolitionist,former slave and publisher of a newspaper

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Joseph warren

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How did Uncle Tom’s Cabine impact Americans

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IT portrayed slavery as being brutal an immoral, iT helped change public opinion against slavery

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Who is the Author of Uncle Tom’S Cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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What were the Lincoln-Douglas Debates about

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Issues of the day like slavery

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How did the suprême court ADD tensions over slavery

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Ruled that Dred Scott could not sue in U.S. courts and was bound by the Missouri codes. Declared that the Missouri Compromise was undonstiutional

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What was the belief that people living in a certain region should decide keu issues

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Popular sovereignty

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What was the Dmocratic platform in 1860

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Disagreed over slavery. North wantend popular sovereignty to decide for free and slave States they won

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The party created by free-spoilers, Northern Whigs ANd Democraats

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Constitutional Union Party

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Who hopen to Get wepeons for a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry

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John Brown

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In 1860 and 1861 Seven southern States seceded in protest of what

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Protested Lincolns election as president

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Who was the president of the confederacy

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Jefferson David

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What were the Confederate States of America

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What the seceded states formed

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Jefferson Davis

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President of the Confederate States

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John Brown

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An extreme abolitionist who murdered Kansans and wantend to steal wepeons from Harpers Ferry, Virginia to help start a slave rebellion was hanged

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Stephen Douglas

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A senator from Illinois who got the Compromise of 1850 passed

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James Buchanan

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Democraats nominated HIM for president was a minister in GB neutral in Kansas slave act appealed to southerners

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Abraham Lincoln

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Elected in 1860 and was. A republican nominee

Wantend to eliminate slavery hè challenged douglass to a debate which set a. Model for future elections

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Roger taney

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Chief Justice
Ruled that Dred Scott could not sue i. U.S. COURTS and had to follow the Missouri code
Declared the Misouri Compromise unconstituional

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