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12th amendment

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allowed electors to vote for a party ticket, meaning the runner-up in a presidential election was no longer appointed vice president

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Jeffersonian Republicanism

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nation governed by middle- and upper-class property owners; government is only as large as necessary

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Midnight appointments

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before Adams left office, he filled as many government positions with Federalists as he could; Jefferson refused to recognize these appointments

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Marbury v. Madison

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William Marbury sues James Madison for not certifying his appointment; Chief Justice John Marshall rules that Marbury has a right to his position but that the court cannot enforce this right; establishes judicial review

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Judicial review

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the right of the Supreme Court to review or challenge the constitutionality of executive, legislative, or administrative acts; established by John Marshall in 1803 through Marbury v. Madison

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Louisiana Purchase

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Jefferson sent James Monroe to France to purchase New Orleans for $2 million; France offered the entire Louisiana Territory for $15 million in order to fund Napoleon’s army

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Essex Junto

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a group of New England Federalists who planned to secede from the United States after the Louisiana Purchase

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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exploration of the trans-Mississippi West led by Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark; led to stronger US claims to the Oregon Territory and improved relations with Native Americans

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Embargo Act of 1807

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shut down America’s import/export business, severely damaging the US economy (especially in the New England states, which were reliant on foreign trade)

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Non-Intercourse Act of 1809

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reopened trade with most nations except for Britain and France, the US’s two most significant trade partners

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Macon’s Bill No. 2

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reopened trade with France and England, promising that if one country renounced its interference with American trade then the other would be cut off

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War Hawks

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Democratic Republicans led by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun who sought war with Britain

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Hartford Convention

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Federalists met in Connecticut to discuss major Constitutional changes/possible secession in response to the War of 1812; eventually caused the demise of the Federalists since they were seen as traitors

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Henry Clay’s American System

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work towards national growth that was lobbied for by Henry Clay; protective tariffs on imports, improvements to interstate roads, rechartering of the National Bank

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Era of Good Feelings

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a time of brief unification for the country after the demise of the Federalists; ended with the election of John Quincy Adams in 1824

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McCulloch v. Maryland

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John Marshall rules that states could not tax the national bank, establishing the precedence of federal law over state law

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Panic of 1819

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financial scare caused by the National Bank tightening credit to repay war debt; resulted in a sharp increase of bankruptcies, unemployment, and debt imprisonments

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John Quincy Adams

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6th president of the US; Secretary of State under James Madison; former Federalist

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Monroe Doctrine

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policy of mutual noninterference between Europe and the Americas; claimed America’s right to intervene anywhere in the Western hemisphere if it felt that its security was threatened

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Missouri Compromise

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admitted Missouri as a slave state and carved out a portion of Massachusetts to form Maine, a free state; drew a line along the 36th parallel and prevented slavery in those states above the line

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Coffin Handbill

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accused Andrew Jackson of murdering his men during the Indian wars

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Spoils system

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trading jobs for political favors (“to the victor go the spoils”); demonstrated by Jackson replacing many government officials with his political supporters after being elected

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Jacksonian Democracy

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political philosophy that restructured a number of federal institutions and extended voting rights to most white men over 21; replaced Jeffersonian Democracy

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Indian Removal Act

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forced resettlement of thousands of Native Americans; ordered by Jackson and passed by Congress in 1830

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Trail of Tears

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forced relocation of thousands of Cherokees from Georgia to Oklahoma lasting from 1835 to 1838; thousands died of sickness/starvation

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Nullification

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individual states have the right to disobey federal laws if they find them to be unconstitutional

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Tariff of Abominations

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protective tariff passed during the Adams administration that became a point of interest during the nullification debate

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South Carolina Exposition and Protest

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published anonymously by John C. Calhoun; argued that states who felt the 50% tariff was unfairly high could nullify the law

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Tariff of 1832

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meant to solve the Tariff of Abominations but failed to lower rates; both were later nullified and South Carolina passed a resolution forbidding the collection of tariffs

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Force Bil

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Jackson’s reaction to the South Carolina resolution; authorized the president to use whatever force he deemed necessary to enforce federal tariffs

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Specie Circular

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ended the government policy of selling land on credit; preferred “hard cash” (gold & silver) due to Jackson’s distrust of paper money

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Nat Turner’s Rebellion

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an uprising of slaves in Virginia led by enslaved preacher Nat Turner in which 50 whites were killed

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Slave codes

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restrictive laws preventing Black people from congregating and learning how to read; government response to Nat Turner’s Rebellion

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Whigs

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political party most notable for their opposition to one or more of the Democrat’s policies

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Martin Van Buren

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8th president of the US (Jackson’s 2nd vice president); took over during the panic of 1837

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Panic of 1837

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financial crisis that lasted until the mid 1840s; caused by Jackson’s Specie Circular and distrust of paper money

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William Henry Harrison

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first Whig president elected in 1841; “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” Campaign; died of pneumonia 30 days in office

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John Tyler

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took over after Harrison’s death and was known as the “president without a party” because he vetoed numerous Whig bills despite being a Whig himself

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Boom-and-bust cycles

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alternating phases of economic growth and decline

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Cotton gin

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invented by Eli Whitney; sped up cotton processing by enabling quicker removal of seeds; led to a sharp increase in slavery dependency in the South

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Interchangeable parts

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invented by Eli Whitney; products are made with the same parts; boosted mass production + manufacturing by making construction/repairs easier

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Machine-tool industry

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produced specialized machines for growing industries like textiles and transportation

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Assembly line production

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dividing the labor into a number of tasks and assigning each worker one task

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Samuel Slater

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“Father of the American Industrial Revolution;” designed the first American textile mills

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Lowell system

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guaranteed employees housing and cash wages to entice workers to come work in their factories

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National Road

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spanned Maryland, West Virginia, and Ohio; made east-west travel easier

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Erie Canal

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constructed in 1825; linked the Great Lakes region to New York and thus to European shipping routes

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Canal Era

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era in which other regions tried to duplicate the success of the Erie Canal; ended in 1850 as railroads developed and became more convenient for travel

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Telegraph

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primitive telephone system in which people communicated though Morse code; first method of long-distance communication

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Manifest Destiny

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widely-held American belief in a God-given right to the Western territories

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Battle of the Alamo

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13-day siege in 1836; Mexican troops led by Santa Anna reclaim the Alamo Mission in San Antonio de Bexar, killing most of the Texians and Tejanos inside

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Gold rush

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discovery of gold in the Caifornia mountains in 1848 caused over 100,000 people to make their way to the state in just 2 years

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Cult of Domesticity

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the notion that men should work while women kept house and raised children

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Southern paternalism

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the belief that the slave system benefited all its participants, even enslaved people

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Forty-Niners

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prospectors in the California gold rush of 1849

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Squatters

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settlers who ignored the requirement to buy land; moved onto unoccupied tracts and claimed them for their own

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Second Great Awakening

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period of religious revival in the 1820s and 30s among Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists; saw the creation of many new denominations like Evangelicals and Mormons

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Temperance movement

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social movement promoting complete abstinence from the consumption of alcohol; some societies sought outright prohibition of liquor

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Transcendentalists

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nonconformist Unitarian writers/philosophers who drew inspiration from European romanticism; known for writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

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Compromise of 1850

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passed through Congress in 5 separate bills; admitted California as a free state, established popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession, outlawed the slave trade in Washington DC, established a stronger Fugitive Slave Law

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Fugitive Slave Law

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passed by Congress as a part of the Compromise of 1850; required that all escaped slaves be returned to their owners and required citizens to hunt them down, even in free states

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Seneca Falls Convention

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women’s rights convention held in New York in 1848; organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott and considered the birth of the women’s rights movement

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National Woman Suffrage Association

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founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1869; wanted a constitutional amendment to secure votes for women

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Horace Mann

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secretary on the Massachusetts Board of Education; pushed for public education reform

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American Colonization Society

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antislavery group established in 1816 that sought to repatriate enslaved people to the newly formed country of Liberia

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Gag rule

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adopted by Congress from 1836-44 to suppress discussion of the slavery issue and prevented Congress from enacting any new legislation pertaining to slavery

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Frederick Douglass

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former enslaved person who gained fame as a writer and advocate of freedom; began publishing his abolitionist newspaper The North Star in the 1840s

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Harriet Tubman

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escaped slavery and returned south repeatedly to help more than 300 enslaved people escape via the underground railroad

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Underground railroad

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network of hiding places and “safe” trails utilized by enslaved people escaping their masters

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James K. Polk

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11th president of the US; nominated as a “dark horse” by the Democrats

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Polk’s Four Goals

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acquire Oregon Territory from the British; acquire California from the Mexicans; lower tariffs; establish an independent treasury

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Oregon Treaty

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signed with Great Britain in 1846; established a northern border with Canada and allowed the US to acquire Oregon, Washington, and parts of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana

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Mexican-American War

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began in 1846 and ended in 1848; territorial conflict caused by the US seeking to obtain Mexican land

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Slave Power

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what Northerners use to refer to the Southern slaveholders who were allegedly pulling the strings behind the Mexican-American War

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Wilmot Proviso

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proposed Congressional bill preventing the extension of slavery into any territory gained from Mexico; did not pass through Congress

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Free-Soil Party

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single-issue party opposed to the spread of slavery; didn’t want to compete with Black people for labor in the new territories

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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ended the Mexican-American War in 1848 and gave almost all of the modern Southwest to the US

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Mexican Cession

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region in the Southwest that was ceded to the US after the Mexican-American War; US paid $15 million for Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, and Utah

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Gadsden Purchase

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US purchases land in southern regions of Arizona and New Mexico for $10 million to build a transcontinental railroad

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Popular sovereignty

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territories decide by vote whether or not to allow slavery within their borders

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Stephen Douglas

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Democrat politician from Illinois who designed the Kansas-Nebraska Act; lost to Lincoln in the 1860 presidential race

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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antislavery novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852; set the framework for the Civil War

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and established popular sovereignty, drawing in both pro and antislavery groups & resulting in Bleeding Kansas

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Republicans

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political party of antislavery Whigs, northern Democrats, and former Free-Soilers; dominant in the North as opposed to the Southern Democrats

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Border Ruffians

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pro-slavery Missourians who temporarily relocated to Kansas to sway popular sovereignty in their favor

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John Brown

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radical American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow slavery in the United States

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Bleeding Kansas

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a series of violent political confrontations between the antislavery “Free-Staters” and the pro-slavery “Border Ruffians” between 1854 and 1861

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Sumner-Brooks Incident

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Preston Brooke, nephew of pro-slavery Senator Andrew Butler, beat abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner over the head with a cane after a speech in which Sumner attacked both the South and Butler

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James Buchanan

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15th president of the US elected in 1856 by the Democrats

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

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landmark case in which Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney ruled that Black people were not US citizens and thus could not sue in federal court; nullified the Missouri Compromise and Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Abraham Lincoln

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16th president of the US elected in 1860; took over at the beginning of the Civil War and emancipated enslaved people

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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series of 7 debates between Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln and Democrat incumbent Stephen Douglas for the Illinois Senate seat (also known as the Great Debates of 1858)

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Harper’s Ferry Raid

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failed attempt by John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over the US arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, VA

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Confederate States of America

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after South Carolina’s secession from the Union, six other states joined to form this coalition

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Jefferson Davis

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president of the Confederacy during the Civil War

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Greenbacks

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fiat (not backed by gold or silver) paper money issued by the US government during the Civil War;

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Homestead Act

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US federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land (homestead) at little or no cost

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Anaconda Plan

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planned blockade of Southern ports that called for an advance down the Mississippi River, cutting the South in two

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army was defeated, preventing them from expanding the Confederacy to Northern states

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Battle of Vicksburg

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battle in which the North captured the last hold of the South on the Mississippi River, gaining control of the region and splitting the South

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Sherman’s March

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led by the Union’s General Sherman across the South using scorch earth warfare; high point was the burning of Atlanta

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Habeas corpus

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legal concept that one is innocent until proven guilty; Lincoln suspended this right during the Civil war to arrest anti-Union/pro-Confederate advocates

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Emancipation Proclamation

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presidential proclamation/executive order enacted by Lincoln on January 1, 1863 that freed over 3 million enslaved people in the United States

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13th amendment

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outlawed slavery in the United States

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Draft riots

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violent disturbances in New York City as a result of working-class discontent with the draft requiring them to serve in the Civil War

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