history STAAR

Question 1

telegraph

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invention by Samuel Morse

Question 2

immigrants

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Irish came to the U.S. because of potato famine and worked in factories/ transcontinental railroad and were blamed by nativists for taking jobs away

Question 3

Missouri compromise

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relieved sectional differences and made a balance between the number of free and slave state in the union.

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Manifest Destiny

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Desire to own land from coast to coast. James K. Polk population went BOOM

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Oregon Territory

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acquired from Britain in a treaty and achieved goal of manifest destiny

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California Gold Rush

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Chinese immigrants came to the U.S. and later worked in the transcontinental railroad.

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Second Great Awakening

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Encouraged people to be more religious caused social reform leading to the reform era.

Question 8

Dorothea Dix

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improved prison Conditions and create facilities for the mentally ill.

Question 9

Temperance Movement

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Lead by women to decrease Alcohol consumption

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Abolitionist

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worked to end slavery

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transcendentalism

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founded by Emerson and Thoreau focused on the society and individualism and use civil disobedience as a way of protest

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Womens rights movement

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Seneca falls convention called for Women’s suffrage. Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Sectionalism

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region’s Geography impacted its economy north- built factories south- farmed west- mined. a cause of the civil war

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northern economy

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textile Mills, Factories, trade, immigrant labor, some trade-related slave labor.

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southern economy

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Plantation System, Slave labor, cotton produced and sent to the northern economy

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Western Economy

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mining (precious metals) , Agriculture (farming & livestock)

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Compromise of 1850

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North and South agreed California became a free state strict fugitive slave laws were passed

Question 18

Hiram Rhodes Revels

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1st African-american vs. Senator

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15th Amendment

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gave African american males voting rights. southerners resisted by creating pull taxes.

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14th amendment

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Granted citizenship to all African-Americans and all African Americans were to be treated equally under the reversed law the Dred Scott v. Stanford ruling

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13th amendment

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abolished slavery

Question 22

black codes

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laws that limited the new freedom of former slaves

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Radical Republicans

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took control after Lincoln’s death, punished confederate leaders & southerner for civil war

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reconstruction

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after the civil war south in financial ruin and divided into 5 districts

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Appomattox courthouse

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confederacy surrendered to the union in Virginia; ended the civil war

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Vickburg

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Union captured Mississippi River dividing the confederacy in half.

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Union advantages

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more factories,railroads, and money, and leadership of general grant

Question 28

Abraham Lincoln

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Civil war president against secession wanted to preserve the union.