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Election of 1800

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John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was Chosen by House of Representatives

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Louisiana Purchase

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

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Sent to explore the Louisiana Purchase and find its resources

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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Impressment :forcing Americans to serve in British Navy.

Chesapeake: us tries to cut off trade with Britain

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun pushed for war with Great Britain

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War of 1812 –

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DC burned, Fort McHenry, Battle of New Orleans

Fort McHenry:Francis Scott Key wrote the star spangled banner

Happened after the peace treaty was signed

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The Star Spangled Banner

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Wrote during Fort McHenry and its by Francis Scott Key

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Monroe Doctrine

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It said that Europeans couldn’t colonize the Americas anymore

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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A disease killed potatoes so Irish people can to America for food and work in the 1840s

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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Seneca Falls Convention first women’s rights convention

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Industrial Revolution

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Change from an agrarian society to one based in industry

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Capitalism

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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 free to buy, sell, and produce what they wand and can work where they wish

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Supply and Demand

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Raises and lowers prices based on demand

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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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Increased demand for the north, sped up production of cotton by slaves

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Urban vs Rural

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Urban: city
Rural: countryside

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Wilderness Road

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Aided early explanation of TN cause it made passing through mountains easier and opened door for more settlement

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Daniel Boone

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Blazed the wilderness road which made him a long hunter

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Cumberland Gap

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Path to make passing though Appalachians mountains easier

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The Corrupt Bargain

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

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Andrew Jackson

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spoils system: practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidate’s supporters

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Indian Removal Act

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Passed by congress in order to relocate Native Americans

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Trail of Tears

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Relocation and movement of Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

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Sequoyah

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Known for creating the Cherokee Language

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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency

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Gave inauguration speech that lasted over two hours

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Manifest Destiny

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Belief United States was destined by God to extend its boundaries to the pacific… From sea to shining sea

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Texas Rebellion

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Battle of San Jacinto- surprise attack that killed over 600 Mexican soldiers and captured 700

Lone star republic was formed after Santa Anna surrenders at San Jacinto

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The Alamo

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Bought Texans some much needed time

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Davy Crockett

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Backwoodsman from Tennessee who volunteered to fight at the Alamo

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Oregon Trail

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Used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest

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James K Polk

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Fulfilled Manifest Destiny

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Mexican War

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Border Dispute: US believes Texas border is rio grande River and Mexico believes the border is the Nueces River

Mexican Cession:ceded Cali and and New Mexico and US got $15 million

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John Sutter

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Obtained land in California and first to find gold nugget. This started the California Gold Rush which doubled the worlds gold

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Brigham Young

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Led the migration to Utah to the great Salt Lakes of Utah

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Helped preserve the balance between north and south

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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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Most famous conducted for the Underground Railroad

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Underground Railroad

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Network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people

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Frederick Douglass

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Most well known African-American abolitionist

Edited antislavery newspaper North Star

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Explored the issue of slavery

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves

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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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Sumner-Brooks Incident

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

46
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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 in attempt to start a rebellion

47
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Dred Scott v Sandford

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Divided nation even more

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Lincoln-Douglass debates

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Main topic of slavery, Lincoln said, “I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. A house divided against itself cannot stand “

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Election of 1860

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Abraham Lincoln with more population north outvoted the south.

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Causes of the Civil War

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Lincoln’s Presidency, confederate states of America, Fort Sumter

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Fort Sumter

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Marked the beginning of the civil war when confederate guns opened fire

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Leader of north troops and 18th president

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Robert E. Lee

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Lead commander of CSA

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Stonewall Jackson

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Coincide red one of the most gifted tactical commanders in US History back to first battle

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First Battle of Bull Run

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30,000 Union troops attacked confederate force. Confederate forces became inspired reinforcements

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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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African American regiment most successful

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The Battle of Gettysburg

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Union forces are greatly outnumbered and after two days of unsuccessful assaults, Lee plans an attack that he hoped would create panic

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The Battle of Vicksburg

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Union win caused 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 western army towards Atlanta and burned it then continued towards Savannah Georgia

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Lee Surrendering to Grant

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April 9, 1865 in Appomattox Court House. Terms of surrender were very forgiving towards southern troops

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13th Amendment

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Abolished slavery

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14th Amendment

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Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the US

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15th Amendment

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Gave African Americans the right to vote

65
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Lincoln Assassination

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Ford’s Theater
John Wilks booth
Peterson House

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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction

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10 Percent Plan: forgiveness on the south

RR: wanted a harsher readmission process

67
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Freedman’s Bureau

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Agency that helped African Americans make the 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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Required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place and the court said segregation was legal as long as it was separate and equal

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Ku Klux Klan

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Largest anti-African American terrorist organization in the south

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