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Semester 1 Final Flashcards

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What was the cause of the Dorr rebellion in Rhode Island?

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Thomas Dorr drafted a new Constitution, that was passed by popular vote in Rhode Island

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What was the Dorr rebellion?

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Two groups were claiming state control in Rhode Island

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What was the result of the Dorr rebellion?

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Dorr loses, but the old government in Rhode Island is forced to change

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Spoils system

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Putting into office your own people despite them maybe not being the most qualified

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What was the cause of the nullification crisis?

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Tariffs that would help the North, made the sound angry as it raised goods

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What was the nullification crisis?

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States felt they had the power to nullify a law they deemed unconstitutional, opposition from federal government, led to talks of succession

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Jackson proposes this bill denouncing the nullify states as traitors

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Force Bill

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5 civilized tribes:

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Cherokee
Chickasaw
Choctaw
Muskogee
Seminole

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Indian Removal act

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The forced removal of Native Americans because of white pressure to remove them and open up their land to settlement

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Who did the Supreme Court and Jackson side with on the Indian Removal act?

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The Native Americans

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True or False
The supreme court ruling is ignored and the Indians are removed with the Indian Removal act?

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true

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Forced removal of the Cherokee nation, 1/8th die on the trek to Oklahoma

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trail of tears

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Who tried to recharter the bank during Jackson’s presidency?

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Nicholas Biddle (pres. of bank) enlisted Henry Clay and Charles Webster to secure bank recharter

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Did the Bank get a recharter?

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Congress passed it, but Jackson vetoes it, and there is not enough votes in Congress to override it

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What was the result of Jackson’s veto?

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Jackson pulls all money from federal bank and distributed it among state ones, in 1836 the bank is killed and causes financial stress for a century

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Panic of 1837

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Financial crisis after the killing of the federal bank,

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How was Van Burren effected by the Panic of 1837?

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Because of his closeness to Jackson and his involvement with the bank crisis, he lost the election of 1840

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What was Oklahoma known as during the time of Jackson?

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It was the place all the forced out Indians went to

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What was hard and soft money and where was the support for either?

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Soft money (paper/cash) prevalent in south and west and hard money (gold/silver) support was in north

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Clay’s American system

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Tariffs, Infrastructure, bank

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Aroostook war

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Boundary dispute between Maine and Canada, a lumberjack war

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slaves took over a slave ship and sailed to the British Bahamas, British set the slaves free, angered many southerners

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Creole Incident

23
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Established permanent boundary between Canada and Main, British promise to leave U.S. shipping alone

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Webster-Ashburton treaty

24
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Who were the major immigrant groups in the 40s-60s in the east?

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Germans and Irish

25
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Who were the main immigrants coming to the west?

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Chinese

26
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Who were the Great Triumvirate?

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Henry Clay, Charles Webster, and John C. Calhoun

27
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How did the Gold Rush start?

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In January 1848, James Marshall found gold at John Sutter’s sawmill, he tried to keep it a secret but word got out

28
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What was the result of the Gold Rush?

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People came from all over the country, and many immigrants from China. Racism was rampant too

29
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A slave from the south who was brought to Illinois, when his master died he sued the widow for freedom. It goes all the way up to the supreme court, and ruled since he is black he has no right to sue

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Dred Scott

30
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What was the result of the Compromise of 1850?

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Texas surrendered claim to New Mexico land above 36/30 line, California admitted as a free state

31
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Harper’s Ferry Raid

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Led by John brown, he tried to take the weapons and entice a slave uprising. Robert E Lee stopped and arrested them

32
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How was the Republican party born?

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Born after the Kansas-Nebraska act when many people (pro anti-slavery) opposed it

33
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America was destined to expand because of God and history

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Manifest Destiny

34
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What led to Texas’ Independence?

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U.S. never forget about it after Adams-Onis Treaty, when Mexico wins it’s independence from Spain, many Americans begin living in Texas. Mexico tries to stop them, but they eventually declare independence in 1836

35
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Who was Clara Barton?

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Founded American Red Cross

36
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Homestead act

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applicant could acquire ownership of gov’t land for free

37
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1st major battle of the Civil War

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The Battle of Bull Run

38
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Signed by Lincoln, declaring all slaves free except for those in border states, already under Union control

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Emancipation proclamation

39
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What was the major turning point in the war?

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Battle of Gettysburg

40
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who led the March to the sea?

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William T Sherman

41
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Moral Land grant Act

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Allowed for the creation of Land Grant colleges in U.S. using the proceeds of the federal bank

42
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Where did Robert E Lee surrender?

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Appomattow courthouse on April 6th, 1865

43
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What currency was used during the Civil War?

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Confederate dollar/greenbacks

44
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13th ammendment

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outlawed slavery

45
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14th amendment

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citizenship

46
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15th amendment

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blacks given the right to vote

47
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who led the KKK?

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Nathan Bedford Forrest

48
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What was the purpose of the KKK?

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Worked for the ideals of the planter class

49
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Election of 1876 has no clear winner with the electoral college (Hayes (repub) and Tilden (dem)) goes to Congress, set up electoral commission. Dems will not challenge election if the repubs withdraw troops from south

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Compromise of 1877

50
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Who started the Tuskegee Institute and pushed for black education?

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Booker T. Washington

51
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Black codes/Jim Crow laws

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laws that hurt Blacks and them moving up in society

52
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What was the convict lease system?

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slavery persisted in the form of convict leasing, a system in which Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations.

53
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What was sharecropping?

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Sharecropping is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.

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