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First republican president

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Abraham Lincoln

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Chief justice of the Supreme Court 1792

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John Marshall

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The Erie canal

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Dewitt clinton

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The “little magician” whose administration was marred by depression.

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Martin van Buren

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This young sect became America’s largest denomination by 1840.

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Methodist

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This is granted to an inventor to protect their rights to an invention.

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Patent

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Author of elementary readers

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William Mc Guffey

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Won Texan independence

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Sam houston

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Leader of a slave rebellion.

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Nut Turner

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Belief that each territory can decide on the status of slavery within its border.

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Popular sovereignty

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The third president of the united states

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Thomas jefferson

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Designed to end the nullification crisis by reducing the tariff rates.

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Compromise tariff of 1833

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Where the first shot of the War between the states was fired.

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Fort sumter

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Named used to describe Andrew Jackson’s close circle of information advisors.

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Kitchen Cabinet

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Landmark Supreme court decision that protected Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce.

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Gibbons V Ogden

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Replacement of government officeholders with supporters of new administration.

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Spoils system

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Founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints.

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Joseph Smith

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Author of the national anthem.

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Francis Scott key

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Amendment that separated the ballots for the president and vice presindent.

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Twelfth Amendment

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President who oversaw the war of 1812

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Jame madison

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Explorer of the Louisiana Territory with Mariwther Lewis.

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William Clarke

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Supreme court decision maintained that “it is emphatically the province & duty of the judicial department to say the law is.

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Marbury V Madison

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He supported states’ rights,unexpectedly became president after Harrison’s death,”his Accident”

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John Tyler

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State called the Bear Flag Republic.

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California

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Treaty that caused Mexican cession of Mexico and California

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Treaty of Hidalgo

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The forced removal of the Civilized Tribes from their homeland,and forced to march to their new land.

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Trail of tears

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America’s first economically successful railroad.

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Baltimore and Ohio

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The concession that allowed the new stets and went against the machine roam.

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Missouri Compromise

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Document stating the no European country could entertain in the western Hemisphere.

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Monroe Doctrine

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Bank system set up by Andrew Jacson to replace the National Bank.

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Pet Banks

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Methodist minister who traveled on horseback to small frontier settlements in his region.

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Circuit rider

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A state leaving the union.

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Succession

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Federal arsenal was attacked in 1859 in the hopes of sparking a slave revolt.

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Harpers Ferry

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He brought American settlers into Texas.

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Stephen F. Austin

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President of the Confederate states of American.

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Jefferson Davis

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Type of high tax on imported goods,designed to protect national manufacturers against foreign competition

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Protective tariff

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Policy Andrew Jackson adopted toward the Indian problem.

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Indian Removal Policy.

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Explorer of the Louisiana Territory with William clark.

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Meriwther Lewis

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National funding for roads,canals,harbors,and railroads.

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Internal improvements

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America’s popular president during the “Era of good Feelings”

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James Monroe

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Landmark supreme court decision that denied the states the power to interfere with the ability of congress to enact a national bank.

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McColloch v. Maryland

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“Friend of the common man”;Hero at the Battle Of Horseshoe Bend President who supported the Indian Removal Policy

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Andrew Jackson

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Indian assistant to Lewis and Clark.

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Sacajawea

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This treaty permanently disarmed the region on America’s northern border.

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Rush-Bagot Treaty

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Tax on imported goods

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Tariff

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Invented the cotton gin.

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Eli Whitney

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Founder of salt Lake City,the Mormon Capital.

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Brigham young

48
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This party was united by their opposition to Andrew Jackson Policies

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Whig party

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Father of American Methodism

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Francis Asbury

50
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Stated that slavery must be banned in any territory acquired from Mexico.

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Wilmot Proviso

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Speaker of the House who formulated the Missouri Compromise;Head of the Whig Party.

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Henry Clay

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Party long claimed to be that of the “common man”and is still in existence today.

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Democratic Party

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Element on this system were tariffs,internal improvements,and national bank.

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American system

54
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Eloquent former slave who wrote in support of abolition.

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Frederick Douglass

55
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Slave who was ruled not a citizen,therefore not allowed to sue.

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Dred Scott

56
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Slaughter of a small Texas outpost by the Mexican Army.

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Alamo

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Religious revival that affected the entire nation in the early nineteenth century.

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Second Great Awakening

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This trail was a trade route between Mexico and the United States.

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Santa Fe Trail

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Invented the Steamboat

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Robert Fulton

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Public Education reformer.

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Horace Mann

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Former slave who made trips to the South to lead slaves to freedom.

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Harriet Tubman

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Founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Richard Allen

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Religious group persecuted because the men took more than one wife.

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Mormons

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“Dark house”president who was perhaps the hardest working president in our nation’s history before 1860.

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James K Polk

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Mexican military leader who fought Texans and Americans,known as the scourge of the Alamo.

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Santa Anna

66
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Participant in the California gold rush.

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Firty-nine

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“Overspread and to possess the whole continent” God given right to have the coast to coast.

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Manifest Destiny

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Political party who was anti-slavery and pro-business.

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Republican party

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Explorer;Bear Flag Republic (Las vegas Street named after named after him).

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John C. Frémont

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Resolution that said slavery couldn’t be banned until a territory became a state.

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Calhoun Resolutions

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Abolitionist leader who wrote the Liberator newspaper.

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William Lloyd Garrison

72
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Invented the telegraph machine.

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Samuel Morse

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Most important trail in the settlement of the far west.

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Oregon trail

74
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Strongly supported state rights.

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Jefferson Republicanism

75
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Strongly supported Lewis and Clark

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Sacajawea

76
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Treaty that established a permanently disarmed region in Americas northern border was ?

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The Rush-Bagot treaty

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Main provision of Monroe Doctrine was no European country could ……. in the Western Hemisphere.

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Intervene

78
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3 Elements of the American system were?

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Tariffs
International improvement
National bank

79
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What issue lay at the heart of Missouri?

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The balance of slave states Maine became a slave state.

80
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Bank system Jackson set up to replace the national bank was which bank?

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A pet bank

81
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Jackson policies was the main issue that united which party?

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Whig Party

82
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Main reason the South fell behind the North in developing industry was?

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They replied mainly on cotton exports.

83
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Roads were so much more common in early American when boats were cheaper because?

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Roads could reach land locked

84
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“What Hath God Wrought” were words from ?

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The first telegraph sent.

85
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The ….. Falls convention passed resolutions supporting women suffrage area of reform.

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Senecca

86
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Who became famous for writing short stories and poems that explore dark side of human nature ?

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Edgar Allen Poe

87
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Religion popular w/Patriots such as Thomas Paine.

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Deism

88
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What is the most important trail of the settlement of the Far West ?

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Oregon trail

89
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John Tyler was called “…?….” Because he became president when Harrison died.

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His accidency

90
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Contributions for ……. War.

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Mexican

91
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Mexico’s resentment over Americas annexation of Which state?

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Texas

92
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Americas belief of ?

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Manifest Destiny

93
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History of hostility between which country?

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Mexico and US

94
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Texas settles decided to fight for independence was because the Mexican army …….. Texas.

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Invaded

95
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Immediate cause of Mexican war was the

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Texas Mexican hoarder

96
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Greatest spur of California’s settlement was ?

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The gold rush

97
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The Republicans became such a success to which party?

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Whig Party

98
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According the Lincoln, the heart of his debate w/Douglas was the ?

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Immorality of slavery

99
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Event that caused the lower South to secede was ?

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The election of Lincoln

100
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Event that caused upper South to secede was?

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Lincoln’s call for troops

101
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South resisted the admission of California as a state because mainly they Feared the loss of power in ?

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The senate

102
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Clipper ship was …….. Type of sailing ship ever built.

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Fastest

103
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Name of the candidate who was unknown was “darkhorse”

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“James K Polk”

104
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Who was spokesman for slavery in the Southern territories.

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John C Calhoun

105
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Douglas promoted popular sovereignty as the solution for slavery let the settlers decide for them sieves and Lincoln refused to …… it in their debate.

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Deny

106
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Lincoln refused to deny slavery was ?

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Immoral

107
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What mission became the rallying cry during Texas’s war for independence?

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Alamo

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