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Mid-Term Flashcards

1
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Whiskey Rebellion showed….

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the strength of the federal government

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2
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Marbury v Madison established….

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judicial review

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3
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Federalists supported…

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Industry

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4
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Alexander Hamilton was a….

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Federalist

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5
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Alien and Sedition Acts were meant to…

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Silence the critics of federalism

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6
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The VA and Kent Resolutions argued for…

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states’ rights to nullify a law

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7
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Louisiana Purchase

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Thomas Jefferson, from Napolean, 15 million dollars, expanded the US

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8
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When the country was founded, who was given the right to vote?

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White male landowners

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9
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Impact of cotton gin

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Sped up the process of harvesting cotton, increasing profitability and the need for slaves

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10
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Lowell system

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Textile mills employing young women that worked and lived there

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11
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George Washington warned against…

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Political parties, alliances, and foreign affairs

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12
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XYZ Affair

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Between the French and Americans, French tried to get a bribe from American officials

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13
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President during Era of Good Feelings

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James Monroe

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14
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Causes of War of 1812

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Impressment, border disputes, supplying Indians, and War Hawks

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15
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Where were War Hawks from?

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South and West

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16
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Policy towards Indians in 1820s and 30s

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Removal and relocation

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17
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Worcester v Georgia

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Cherokee fighting Indian Removal Act, recognized by court as independent nation and could stay in Georgia

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18
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Lewis and Clark occurred after…

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the Louisiana Purchase

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19
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Essential belief of Transcendentalism

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Inherent goodness of people and nature

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20
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Eerie Canal connected…

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Hudson River and Great Lakes

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21
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Eli Whitney’s two greatest inventions

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Cotton gin and Interchangeable parts

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22
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Tarriff of 1828 concerned….

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States rights to nullify national laws

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23
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott fought for…

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Woman’s rights and suffrage

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24
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Seneca Falla Convention supported…

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Women’s suffrage and abolition

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25
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Liberator

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Abolitionist Newspaper by William Lloyd Garrison

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26
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North Star

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Abolitionist Newspaper by Frederick Douglass

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27
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Response to Nat Turner

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Many states adopt black codes

28
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Leaders of Transcendentalism

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Emerson and Thoreau

29
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Slave Issue Compromises

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Missouri, 1850, Kansas-Nebraska, Dred Scott

30
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Wilmot Proviso

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Stopping the extension of slavery into land received from the Mexican war, never passed

31
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Dred Scott v Sanford

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Slaves were property, had no rights, slavery could exist everywhere

32
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Significance of caning of Charles Sumner

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Increasing sectionalism

33
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Compromise of 1850

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Cali free, NM and Utah popular sov, slavery abolished in DC, Fugitive Slave Act

34
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Republican’s view on slavery

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Did not want it in territories

35
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Underground Railroad leader

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Harriet Tubman

36
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1850s views on slavery

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North: evil South: necessary evil

37
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Views of John Brown

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North: hero South: radical

38
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Writer of Uncle Tom’s Cabin “little lady who started the big war”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

39
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Election of 1860 Map

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North: Lincoln South: split among democrats, no votes for Lincoln

40
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North’s strategy for Civil War

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Anaconda plan

41
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Emancipation Proclamation

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Freed slaves in the confederate states, properties of war, did not affect border states

42
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Sherman’s Philosophy

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Total War

43
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Which branch receives increased power during war time?

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Executive

44
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Suspend writ of habeas corpus

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Go to jail w/o a trial

45
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Jim Crow Laws

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Laws to limit the rights of black people

46
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Northerners who settled in the South after Civil War

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Carpetbaggers

47
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14th ammendment

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Defined a citizen, recognized freed slaves

48
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Purpose of poll taxes and grandfather clauses

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Limit those who could vote

49
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Compromise of 1877

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Ended Reconstruction

50
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Morrill Land Grant

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Created colleges focused on technology and agriculture

51
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Transcontinental Railroad Workers

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Irish and Chinese

52
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Why were so many Americans racist towards immigrants?

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They were taking jobs

53
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Interstate Commerce Act

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Regulated railroads

54
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It was hard to make money in the 1870s and 80s for farmers due to….

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the high prices of transporting their goods

55
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Why did farmers want silver to be coined

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Expand money supply, create inflation

56
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Political Machines

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Helped immigrants, gave them jobs and housing in exchange for political support

57
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What did the US Gov’t do to encourage western settlement?

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Homestead Act

58
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Gov’t Economic policy 1865-1900

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Non-regulations

59
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William Jennings Bryan

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Populist leader, supported bimetallism

60
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Who supported WJB?

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Farmers

61
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Transcontinental Railroad and Homestead Act fulfilled

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Manifest Destiny

62
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People who supported Gov’t regulation in the 1800s

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Laborers and farmers

63
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Where did most immigrants come from before the 1900s?

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Eastern Europe

64
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Nativism

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Natives > Immigrants

65
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Reforms needed during Gilded Age

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Labor, wages, hours

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