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History Test 5 Flashcards

1
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America’s First Public High School founded

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1821

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2
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Erie Canal completed

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1825

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3
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concerned with passing on to new generations the knowledge and traditions of the past

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traditional education

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4
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American Spelling Book nickname

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Blue-Backed Speller

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5
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wrote the Blue-Backed Speller

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Noah Webster

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6
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a school for professional training of teachers

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normal school

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7
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the first coeducational college

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Oberlin College

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8
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who founded the first lyceum

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Josiah Holbrook

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9
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editor of the Atlantic Monthly

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William Dean Howells

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10
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allowed publishers to print current news with amazing speed

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telegraph

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11
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who founded the New York Tribune

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Horace Greeley

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12
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invented the reaper

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Cyrus McCormick

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13
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transformed the Southern agriculture in 1793

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cotton gin

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14
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escaped Great Britain and brought their industrial secrets to the US

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Samuel Slater

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15
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Father of the American Factory System

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Samuel Slater

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16
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invented the power loom

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Francis Cabot Lowell

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17
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first American to develop a high-pressure steam engine

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Oliver Evans

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18
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called the national road connected Cumberland, Maryland with Wheeling, VA

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Cumberland road

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19
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were raised above their surrounding terrain to aid in drainage and were constructed of tightly packed layers of crushed rock bound together by fine gravel

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macadam roads

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20
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who constructed the Erie Canal

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DeWitt Clinton

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21
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what did the Erie Canal connect

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Hudson River to Lake Erie

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22
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America’s greatest contribution to the history of sailing vessels

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clipper ship

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23
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invented morse code

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Samuel Morse

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24
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texas war for independance

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1835-1836

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25
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mexican war

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1846-1848

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26
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texas admitted to the union

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1845

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27
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california gold rush

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1849

28
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mexican cession; treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed

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1848

29
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three generals who died during texas war

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travis, bowie, crocket

30
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houston and his forces won a decisive victory and practically ended the war at what battle

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battle of san jacinto

31
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an expression of a people’s will by direct vote

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plebiscite

32
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became the first two white women to journey west of the rockies

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narcissa whitman; eliza spalding

33
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the largest wagon train to go west

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great migration

34
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a dedicated christian adeventurer from new york and ohio played an important role in exploring the west and in opening it to settlers

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jedediah smith

35
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who did the whigs nominate in the 1844 election

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clay

36
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who adopted the “fifty-four forty or fight”

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polk

37
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under whos control was the army detachment sent to defend the texas border

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taylor

38
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sent as a special envoy to mexico

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john slidell

39
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sent by water to attack mexican coastal city of veracruz and to press an attack from there to mexico city

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winfield scott

40
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taylor won a decisive victory against overwhelming odds

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battle of buena vista

41
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who helped the settlers in California with an attack on mexican authority

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John C Fremont

42
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a methodist preacher followed the fold rush to california

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william taylor

43
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republican party formed

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1854

44
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republicans won their first election

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1860

45
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compromise of 1850

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1850

46
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what was a disadvantage of slavory when it came to immigration

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it discouraged it because it reduced the availability of good paying jobs

47
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a fiery new englander who demanded the immediate and unconditional freeing of slaves

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garrison

48
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wrote the newspaper the liberator

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garrison

49
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composed of moderate abolitionists who unlike garrison were loyal to the constituition

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liberty party

50
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a network of escape routes and hiding places by which fugitive slaves could escape

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underground railroad

51
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stipulated that in the land gained from mexico neither slavory nor servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory

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wilmot proviso

52
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clay proposed this to the senate as a series of compromises

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compromise of 1850

53
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webster made his last great speech called what

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seventh of march speech

54
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webster called upon his fellow senetors to give their full support to the compromise

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seventh of march speech

55
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one of the longest debates in american history was for what bill

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compromise of 1850

56
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called for land to be divided into two territories one being free and one to be a slave state

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kansas-nebraska act

57
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attacked a proslavery settlement at pottawatomie creek

A

john brown

58
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when did the republican party come about

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1854

59
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declared that slaves were not citizens and couldnt sue in court and slaves were property

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dred scott vs sanford

60
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what won enough support from the state of illinoise that douglas was reelected to the US senate

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freeport doctrine

61
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published the impending crisis of the south

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helper

62
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lincolns running mate

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hamlin

63
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southern democrats chose who to run int he election of 1860

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breckinridge

64
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made president of the confederacy

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jefferson davis

65
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who said “ i have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the instituition of slavery in the state where it exists

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lincolns inauguration

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