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Part Two Of The Final 150 Flashcards

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Election of 1800

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This election was decided by the House of Representatives

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Louisiana Purchase

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France sells the territory for $15 million and it doubled the size of the US

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Lewis and Clark were sent on an expedition to explore the Louisiana territory and find its resources

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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The Chesapeake was intercepted by a British vessel demanding to search for dissenters. The captain refused and in return the British commander attacked. America tried to cut off trade from Great Britain with the Embargo Act that cut off trade with the rest of the world but it only hurt their economy

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. War Hawks means people who pushed for war with a Great Britain

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War of 1812 – DC burned, Fort McHenry, Battle of New Orleans

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DC burned- the Capitol, White House, and the Library of Congress was burned in this war
Fort McHenry-the British attack this fort at the entrance of Baltimore Harbor
Battle of New Orleans-this battle was a decisive victory for the US and made Andrew Jackson a household name

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The Star Spangled Banner

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After the attack on Fort McHenry p, Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the song

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Monroe Doctrine

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Said the Western Hemisphere was no longer open for colonization. This as put in place due to many Latin American nations gaining independence from Spain at this time

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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Many people from Ireland immigrated to the US due to the potato famine

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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The first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York

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Industrial Revolution

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The change from an agrarian society to one based on industry

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Capitalism

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The Economic System of the US. Individuals put their capital into a business in hopes of making a profit

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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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Prices/cost is set by supply and demand in a free enterprise system

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Number One Crop in the South in the 1800’s

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Cotton

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Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin – what it did and why that was important

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It took the seed out of the cotton and it is important because it caused the increase of slavery

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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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It aided the early exploration of TN bc it made passing through the mountains easier and opened the door for more settlements

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Daniel Boone

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Him and 30 skilled foresters blazed the trail that became the wilderness road. This made him a long hunter, an American Wilderness explorer for at least 6 months at a time

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Cumberland Gap

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It was in the mountains and it allowed for a path to be created that made passing through the Appalachian Mountains easier

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The Corrupt Bargain

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The speaker of the House of Representatives, Henry Clay, meets with John Quincy Adams and agrees to use his influence to help Adams get the vote in the House of Representatives

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Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank

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Spoils System- the practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidate’s supporters
Fight with the bank-Jackson tried to kill the bank by withdrawing all federal funds from the national bank and placing them in smaller state banks which caused a depression in the US

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Indian Removal Act

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The Cherokee did not comply with the Indian Removal Act. Which went to court and got overruled by Jackson and created the Trail of Tears

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The Trail of Tears

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Relocation and movement of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

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Sequoyah

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Is known for creating the written Cherokee language

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William Henry Harrison’s presidency

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Gave an inauguration speech that lasted 2 hours. He died of Pneumonia shortly afterwards. Shortest presidency- 32 days

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Manifest Destiny

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Belief that America should extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific Ocean

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Texas Rebellion

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Stephen F. Austin recruited 300 American families to help him settle land in Mexico after receiving his deceased father’s first land grant

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The Alamo – battle significance

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The defenders of the Alamo bought Texans some much needed time

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Davy Crockett

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Backwoods man from Tennessee who volunteered to fight at the battle of the Alamo

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Oregon Trail

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It was used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Norrthwest

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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?

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Manifest Destiny

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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession

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Border dispute-US believes the Texas border is the Rio Grande River and Mexico believes the border is the Nueces River
Mexican Cession-ceded California and New Mexico and in return the US gave them $15 million

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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush

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John Sutter was the first to discover a gold nugget on his property. The California Gold Rush more than doubled the worlds amount of gold. Levi Strauss sold some jeans there. Had long lasting effects on Cali’s economy

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Brigham Young

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He lead the migration of the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake City are of Utah

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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The compromise was made to have Maine enter as free and Missouri enter as a slave state

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John Brown

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Violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery

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Harriet Tubman

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The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad

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The Underground Railroad

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A network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people

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Frederick Douglass

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Most well known A-A abolitionist. Edited an anti-slavery newspaper called the North Star

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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A novel that explored the issue of slavery

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850. anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be fined or imprisoned

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the US

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Bleeding Kansas

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Kansas became the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery

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Summer-Brooks Incident

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Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts lashed out against those for slavery including Andrew P. Butler

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Raid on Harper’s Ferry

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John Brown led 18 men on a raid to attack a weapon storage facility. He hoped to start a rebellion against slaveholders by arming slaves, but they were quickly defeated

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Dred Scott v Standord

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Dred Scott was moved to two different free states and believed that when he stepped on free soil he should be set free. Chief Justice, Rodger B. Taney, said Scott was still a slave

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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech

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The main topic of these debated was slavery. Lincoln said “I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. A house divided against itself cannot stand” Douglas won a narrow victory in the election

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Election of 1860

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Lincoln becomes the 16th president. The more populous North had outvoted the South

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Causes of the Civil War

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The issue of slavery over states rights, the Election of Lincoln, and the attack on Fort Sumter

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Fort Sumter

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Gums opened fire on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1864 and marked the beginning of the Civil War

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Him and his 40,000 troops are headed to an important railroad junction in Mississippi. There was a church named Shiloh near their resting point in SW TN

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Robert E. Lee

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Commander of confederate troops. Was opposed to slavery, but still fought on the Confederate side because he was a proud Virginian that would not fight against his own state

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Stonewall Jackson

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Considered one of the most gifted tactical commanders in US history

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First Battle of Bull Run

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First major battle of the Civil War, fought near the town of Manassas Junction and a small river named Bull Run

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Anaconda Plan

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Union war plan to defeat the South by dividing them in two

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54th Massachusetts

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The most well known African American regiment

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The Battle of Gettysburg

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Union forces are greatly outnumbered and are forced to retreat

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The Battle of Vicksburg

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The Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg are considered the turning point of the Civil War

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Sherman’s March to the Sea

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General William Tecumseh Sherman led the western army towards Atlanta, after they burned Atlanta they had their historic March to the sea towards Savannah, Georgia

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Lee Surrendering to Grant

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On April 9, 1865, Lee and his troops surrendered to Grant in a small Virginia village called Appomattox Court House

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13th Amendment

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Abolished slavery in 1865

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14th Amendment

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Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the US including A-A’s in 1866

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15th Amendment

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Gave A-A men the right to vote in 1870

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Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death

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Ford’s Theater, John Wilkes Booth, the Petersen House

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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction

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10% Plan- forgiving on the South

Radical Republican Plan- wanted a harsher readmission process

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Freedman’s Bureau

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Agency that helped A-A’s make the transition to freedom

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Segregation

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Separation of the races

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Jim Crow Laws

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Laws that required A-A’s and whites to be separated in almost every public place

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Ku Klux Klan

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Was the largest anti-African American terrorist organization in the South

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