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Election of 1800

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Adams and Jefferson:

no majority, had to go to the house of reps

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Louisiana Purchase

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france sold to us in 1803 for $15 million ; it doubles the size of the US

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Lewis and Clark expedition

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sent on expidition to explore the territory and find resorces

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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British troops impressed US citizens
Chesaeake was intercepted by British vessel demanding to search for dissenters

Cause of the wa of 1812

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Warhawks from the war of 1812

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Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun

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War of 1812-DC burn, fort McHenry, battle of New Orleans

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  1. ) White house, capitol, and Library of Congress
  2. ) entrence of Baltimore harbor, bombed
  3. ) battle tat took place after the Treaty of Ghent was signed in 1812
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The Star-Spangled Banner

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wrote by Francis Scott Key after Fort Mchenry was bombed

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monroe Doctrine

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Western Hemisphere was no longer open to colonize

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Irish potato famine’s relationship to immigration

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Ireland had a potato loss and migrated over to america to plant potatoes

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Elizabeth Caddy Stanton’s convention

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Seneca Falls Convention:
womens rights
NY
publicly fought for womens suffrage

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Industrial revolution

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change from an agrarion society to one based of industry

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Capitalism

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econimic system of the United states

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Free enterprise system

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people are free to buy, sell, and produce what they want and can work where they wish

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Supply and demand

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supply=how much you have of something
demand=how mush people want it
best=have high demand, low supply
worst=have high supply, low demand

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Number one crop in the south in the 1800s

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cotton

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Eli Whitney’s cotton gin-what is it and why was it important

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made it easy to seperate seeds and cotton

made work faster/ easier

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urban vs rural

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urban: city
rural: country

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Wilderness Road

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route to Kentucky to Atlantic Coast

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Daniel Boone

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blazed the wilderness road

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Cumberland gap

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in mountains that made passing through the Appalachians easier

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Corrupt bargain

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John Q. Adams and Henry Clay

clay agreed to help adams win the election in the HoR

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Andrew Jackson-spoil system, fight with the bank

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1.) could replace th gov”t officals because won
2.) he tried to kill the bank by withdrawing all federal funds from the national bank and placing it into smaller state banks
he belived it was out to kill him

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Indian removal act

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The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands.

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Trail of tears

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The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American peoples from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west that had been designated as Indian Territory.

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Sequoyah

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creator of cherokee alphabet

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William Henry Harrison’s presidency

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lasted 32 days
shortest presidency
tippecanoe

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Manifest destiny

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belief that america should extend it’s boundaries all the way to the pacific

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28
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Texas rebellion

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Alamo
Battle of San Jacinto
Lone star republic

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29
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The alamo-battle significance

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Santa Anna’s Mexico vs. Travis Texans. Davy Crockett, backwoodsmen from Tennessee volunteer to fight. Defenders at the Alamo bought the Texans some time. Lonestar republic is formed after.

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Davy Crockett

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Backwoodsman from Tennessee who volunteered to fight at the Alamo

31
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Oregon Trail

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was used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest

32
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James K Polk-president that fulfilled what?

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“Young hickory” firm believer manifest destiny, determined to gain New Mexico and California because of trade to the pacific ocean and manifest destiny.Got both, but paid $15 million to Mexico

33
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Mexican war-border dispute, Mexican secession

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US believes the Texas border is the Rio Grande River and Mexico believes the border is the nueces river

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John Sutter and the California gold rush

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john sutter was the 1st one to find gold

35
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Brigham Young

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brought the mormons to ohio

36
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Missouri compromise of 1820

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Helped preserve the balance between the north and south

37
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John Brown

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Violent abolitionist

38
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Harriet Tubman

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Conductor of the Underground Railroad

39
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Underground railroad

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way for slaves to get to the North

40
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Frederick Douglass

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Aa abolitionist

41
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, uncle Tom’s cabin

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Novel that explored slavery

42
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Fugitive slave act

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Requires all citizens to catch runaway slaves in 1850

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Kansas-Nebraska act

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Increased the territory open to slaveholding

44
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Bleeding Kansas

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1st to shed blood in a civil war over slavery

45
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Sumner-brooks incident

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Hit him with a cane because he was talking about sumners cuz

46
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Raid on Harpers Ferry

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John brown and Military grade weapons

47
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Dred scott v. Sandford

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said that scott was not free

constitution supported slavery

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Lincoln-Douglas debates-house division speech

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Debates: senate race

Lincoln speech: a house divided can not stand alone

49
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Election of 1860

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Lincoln won 16th president

50
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Causes of the Civil War

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Slavery

51
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Fort Sumter

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south attacked, but no one got killed

52
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Ulysses S Grant

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18th president

53
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Robert E Lee

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leader of the South

54
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Stonewall Jackson

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Most gifted tactical commanders of US history

55
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First battle of bull run

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1st major battle of the civil war

56
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anaConda plan

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plan to surround the South so that they would surrender

57
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54th Massachusetts

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What was the most well known African-American regiment in the Civil War?

58
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Battle of Gettysburg

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Led to Lincolns speech

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Battle of Vicksburg

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Last major battle of Civil War

60
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Sherman‘s march to the sea

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After burning Atlanta, army marched to Savannah, Georgia

61
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lee Surrendering to Grant

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Appamaxiv courthouse

62
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13th amendment

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ended slavery

63
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14th amendment

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Citizenship

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15th amendment

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Black man could vote

65
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Lincolns assassination-theater name, murder, place of death

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fords theatre, John Wilks Booth, died in Petersen House

66
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10% plan and radical Republicans plan for reconstruction

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10% was forgiving if the south

radical republicans were harsh

67
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Freedmans bureau

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Help aa transition to freedom

68
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Segregation

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separation of the races

69
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Jim Crow laws

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Harsh on aa after slavery was abolished

70
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kkk

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racist group. killed negros

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