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1
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Different cultures and ethnicity’s coming together to form our nation.

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Diversity

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First example of foreign policy. “Stay out of Western Hemisphere.”

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Monroe Doctrine

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To ensure that no one branch became too powerful, the federal government created a system of _________ which gave each branch the power to check the other two branches.

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Checks and Balances

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During its initial years of existence, the United States expanded its boundaries; most notably the _______________ in 1803. This transaction doubled our size and cost $15 million or 4 cents/acre.

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Louisiana Purchase

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The constitution also sought to balance the interests of the “big” and “small” states in matters of representation. Therefore, the ___________ was created to satisfy each state’s representation based on civil liberties. Also known as the first 10 amendments.

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Bill of Rights

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Said “All men are created equal.” Gov should protect citizens rights. Gov exists with consent of the people. Endowed with certain unalienable rights, life liberty and pursuit of happiness.

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Declaration of Independence

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Each individual state had its own constitution as well and this system of “shared powers” between the state and federal government was called _________.

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Federalism

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Executive (President), Legislative (congress), Judicial (US Supreme court).

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Branches of Government

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Established the US Senate: 2 senators for each state. US House of Representatives: Based on state population.

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The Great Compromise

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Became controversial in the early 1800’s. People in the Northeast were in favor of high protective tariffs on imported goods. People in the south opposed tariffs.

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Tariff Issue

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Drawn a line across the country to indicate whether a new territory would allow slavery.

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Missouri Compromise

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Created allowing California to become a “free” state and the rest of the Southwest territories to vote on the issue in the future.

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Compromise of 1850

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Started a slave uprising. Murdered his owners, gained followers to fight against slavery (50) , but failed.

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Nat Turner

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People who supported the immediate end to slavery.

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Abolitionists (William Loyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman.)

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15
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Fugitive Slave Act, Uncle Toms Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott case, John Browns Raid.

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5 Causes of the civil war

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16
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Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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17
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Famous conductor from the underground railroad.

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Harriet Tubman

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Escape routes with conductors for slaves on the run.

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Underground Railroad

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Famous case about a slave who sued for freedom because he had traveled with his owner to Illinois and eventually Wisconsin, where slavery was illegal. His owner died, and he thought he should be free.

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Dred Scott Case (Dred Scott v. Sanford)

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Northerners opposed to slavery who went to Kansas hoping to vote for it to become a free state.

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Free Soilers

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5,000 pro slavery voters from Missouri who traveled to Kansas to vote and leave.

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Border Ruffians

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Even though the Missouri compromise stated Kansas and Nebraska were banned from being slave states, this act let people vote to choose through popular sovereignty.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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The right to vote to choose important decisions.

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Popular Sovereignty

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First state to secede from the Union in December of 1860

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South Carolina

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25
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President of the Confederate States of America

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Jefferson Davis

26
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Republican president in 1860, wrote the emancipation act.

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Abraham Lincoln

27
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Were the following the advantages of the north or south? Overwhelming edge in population and wealth, 90% of nations factories, better transportation systems, better weapons.

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North

28
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Were the following the advantages of the north or the south? Home court advantage, more motivation, fighting for their homes, more experienced generals.

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South

29
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General who led the south in the early stages of the Civil War.

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Robert E. Lee

30
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White male who started uprisings to revolt against slavery.

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John Brown

31
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South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas

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Confederate States

32
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Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri.

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Border states

33
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beginning of the civil war.

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Fort Sumter

34
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killer of Abraham Lincoln in a theater after civil war ended.

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John Wilkes Booth

35
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President who came after Abraham Lincoln

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Andrew Johnson

36
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President Johnsons plan for _____ for most of the ex confederates.

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Amnesty

37
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Southern states passed repressive laws

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Black Codes

38
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What did the 13th amendment do

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Abolished slavery

39
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made to care for refugee slaves

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Freedman’s Bureau

40
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what did the 14th amendment do?

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Made blacks citizens.

41
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what did the 15th amendment do?

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Allowed blacks to vote.

42
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what laws basically promoted segregation?

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Jim Crow Laws

43
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What act divided the rebel states into 5 military districts, and stationed 200,000 soldiers in the south.

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Reconstruction acts

44
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Well respected war hero from the Civil War, who became president thanks to black votes.

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Ulysses S. Grant

45
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What compromise made Rutherford Hayes the president of the US and ended military rule in the south?

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Compromise of 1877

46
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Charged a fee to vote

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poll tax

47
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literacy and trivia quiz required to vote.

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literacy test

48
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If your grandfather could vote, you could vote, rule.

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Grandfather clause

49
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Name of case that involved slave sitting down on a bus. He argued segregation violated the 14th amendment.

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Plessy V. Ferguson

50
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Slave who told his peers not to fight segregation, but to go along with it.

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Booker Washington.

51
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Trade school for blacks in Alabama

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Tuskegee institute

52
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Democratic candidate who ran against Rutherford Hayes

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Samuel Tilden

53
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area that covered west of the Mississippi river to the rocky mountains.

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Great Plains

54
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Act that allowed settlers to own land that they farmed for 5 years

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Homestead act

55
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Beginning of the indian wars

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Sandcreek Massacre

56
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Minister who attacked a peaceful Cheyene camp

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Colonel John Chivington

57
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vain man who led his men into danger and didn’t accept reinforcements, wouldn’t retreat.

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George Armstrong Custer

58
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Name of battle that Custer and his men were ambushed and killed

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Battle of Southern Montana

59
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Last battle of the indian wars

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Battle of the wounded Knee

60
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A legal agreement under which several companies group together to regulate production and eliminate competition.

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trust

61
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Total control of a product, service or trade in a particular area

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Monopoly

62
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act congress passed to regulate the railroad industry and insure that rates were “reasonable and just.”

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Interstate commerce

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