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Lewis and Clark

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Commissioned by Pres. Jefferson to map and explore the interior of the US

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Era of good feelings

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Name for pres monroes two terms

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Salem witch trials

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3 girls started blaming women. Over 20 in the end were executed. Not just about religion but land

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Dawes act

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Federal law that provided Indian families w/ 160 acres of reservation land

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Battle of Saratoga

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Lasted 6 months. Over one million men died

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Whiskey Rebellion

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Congress taxed all liquor. All the corn from farmers gone to waste- lost a lot of money

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Second great awakening

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Series of religious revivals. Attracted women, blacks and native Americans

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Battle of little big horn

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Sioux warriors slaughtered more than 80 soldiers

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French and Indian war

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Fought for control of eastern N. America

Britain v. French and Indian allies.

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Stamp act

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Required colonist to purchase stamps on legal documents

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Treaty of Paris

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  1. Britain recognized colonies to be free
  2. Allowed western expansion
  3. Fishing rights, back prisoners of war & Mississippi River access
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Cult of domesticity

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Married women should restricts their activities to their home and families

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Dread Scott case

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Black slave suing for freedom based on living in free territory w/ master for five years. Supreme Court ruled him slave not citizen.

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Bacons Rebellion

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First Rebellion in American colonies- frontiersmen took part

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Executive order by Lincoln- freeing the slaves in all confederacy territory

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First great awakening

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1st great American revival
“New light” - supports
“Old light” - opposes

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Lincoln- Douglas debates

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Series of seven debates in towns throughout Illinois during the 1858 senatorial election

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Cotton gin

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Invention used to quickly separate the seeds from the cotton ball

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Marburg v. Madison

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Chief Justice Marshall asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the constitution

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Monroe doctrine

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Statement of foreign policy- Europe should not interfere with American affairs in the United States

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Sharecropping

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System of work and lively hood for freedmen who were employed (enslaved) in the cotton industry

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Pilgrims

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People of god who left home in England to find their religious freedom

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Oregon settlement

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Migratory trend. Stimulated by the optimistic reports of rich farm land and mild climate

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Shays rebellion

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Effort to prevent courts from foreclosing on the farms of those who couldn’t pay

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Stamp act congress

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Congress asked the king to get rid of the stamp act- no right to tax them

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Tea act

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American merchants not allowed to sell tea to colonists

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Trail of tears

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Land & water route used to force Cherokee Indians fro their homes

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Treaty of Ghent

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Stopped the war and gave back land taken in the war

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Indentured servants

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They signed contracts w/ America colonists to come to America. Had to work for 7 years (or more). Food, clothes and shelter provided

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Great railroad strike

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Railroad workers stopped working in response to wage cuts

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A century of dishonor

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Written by Helen hunt Jackson. Telling about the injustices made on the native Americans during expansion

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Start spangled banner

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Written by Francis Scott key during war of 1812

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Yeomen farmers

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Small landowners who farmed their own land and usually did not have slaves

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Intolerable acts

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Passed in response to the Boston tea party. Set up to punish Massachusetts

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Annexation of Texas

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Southern states supported Texas slavery. North feared expansion of slavery

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Fugitive slave laws

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Couldn’t help run away slaves-get punished and fined

Could capture slaves in free states

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Battle of Antietam

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North succeed in stopping Lee’s confederate forces in Maryland

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Erie Canal

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363 mile long artificial water way connecting Hudson River to Lake Erie

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Three fifths compromise

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Number of each state representatives in congress based on freed people and 3/5 of the slaves

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Boston massacre

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British soldiers fired into group of colonists, killing some- instigation from the colonists

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