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Morrill land grant act

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Transferred western land to state governments, who could sell it to generate funds for education

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California gold rush

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Created the need for law and order in the west

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Homestead act of 1862

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Permitted citizens to claim land cheaply in west

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National bank acts 1863

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Created new national banking system
Absorbed all the little banks

Created uniform currency

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Draft riots

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Most violent ever in NYC
Blamed blacks for the war
Irish angry

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Copperheads

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“Peace democrats” dems opposed to war

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Lincolns radical actions

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Martial law

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1864 election

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Lincoln’s reelection majority electoral

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Confiscation acts

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Declared confederate military slaves free

Emancipation
Result in radical republicans gain influence

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Emancipation proclamation

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Made all confederacy slaves free (not boarder states)

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Confederate funding problems

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Asked states for money nicely and they all were like nah not feelin it

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Jefferson Davis

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Confederate “president”
Moderate (ofc)
Shitty

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General Winfield Scott

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Shitty general in civil war Lincoln was like nah son

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George b McClellan

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Arrogant and shitty civil war general

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Ulysses s grant

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Awesome general
Attached the resources not the territory
Lincoln’s favorite child

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Robert e lee

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Military dude for the confeds

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Trent affair

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British getting in With south union is like what the fuck man

It all happened with boats idk

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Dread Scott decision

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Federal government was powerless to discuss the rights of slavery within states

Was drastic and startling

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Buchanan

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Timid timid timid

Did like nothing

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Election of 1844

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No one wanted to talk about annexation of Texas

Polk swooped in and was like YAS TEXAS so he won

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54-40 or fight

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Loose talk of war between America and British over Canadian boarder

No one wanted war so Brits relented
Fixed at 49th parallel

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Mexican war

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Support split in America

Victorious

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Bear flag revolution

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The mess of fighting in California

John c Fremont leading a group, the navy, And settlers against Mexicans

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Zachary Taylor

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Good commander in Mexican war became president after narrow victory

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Free soil party

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Emergence signaled the discontent and disapproval of slavery

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William h Seward

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After Calhoun died. Wanted slaVERY DED

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Stephen a Douglas

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Democrat, westerner
Devoted to personal and sectional gain
Wanted railroads and shit

CALLED CLAYS compromise of 1850 bill OMINOUS And tried to kill it

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Millard fillmore

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Z Taylor’s shitty replacement after he died.

Dull but HANDSOME

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Ostend manifesto

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Plans for taking Cuba that leaked and got everyone all uppity because they thought it was like a secret slave state

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South opinion on annexation

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Opposed all new territory that would not openly allow slaves

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Election of 1856

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Boring Buchanan

Everyone playing it safe

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America claim of Oregon

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Good farming produced Oregon ferver to settle south of Columbian

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Manifest destiny

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Fueled explanation including Mexican California and the annexation of Texas

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Causes of Mexican war

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Annexation of Texas
Pushing Mexico to sell California
Assertion of boarder by Polk and Slidell

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Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo 1848

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Ended Mexican war
Mex recognize rio grande as boarder
Us pay 15 mill and assume claims against Mexico

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Clayton bulwark treaty

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Great Britian and America both wanted the general canal and they were like we can share

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Booker t Washington

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Spokesman for blacks in south
Born into slavery
Encouraged blacks to attend schools and such

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Jim Crow laws

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Restricting laws encouraging segregation and such

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Chinese immigrants

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First Americans were like yeah, but then their success in west was see as a threat.

Chinese exclusion act

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Chinese exclusion act

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Reflection of perceived threat of Chinese

Ban emigration and prevented Chinese from becoming citizens

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Anti coolie clubs

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Anti Chinese agitation and violence
Didn’t employ Chinese
Created by Irish immigrant

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Characteristics of western working class

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Multiracial

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Romance of west

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Rocky Mountain school 
Cowboy myth (Owen wister)
Fredric Remington (cowboy)
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Sand creek massacre

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Eastern Sioux killed 700 whites when rebelling against restrictions imposed

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Indian hunting

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Sport of whites popular in California
Factor in reduction of Indian populations
1850-80

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Little Bighorn

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Montana 1876

Indians vs whites

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Building transcontinental railroad

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Chinese workers made up 90%
They didn’t complain ^

After this Chinese went out of work

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