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U.S. History Sem. 1 Vocab Flashcards

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Alfred Mahan

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US Navy Admiral that convinced the US government to construct many new battleships

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Joesph Smith

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Founded the Mormons

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John Hoeven

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North Dakota’s US Senator

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Edwin Stanton

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His dismissal lead to Johnston’s impeachment

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Clara Barton

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Civil War nurse; founded the Red Cross

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Ben Franklin

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Oldest delegate to attend Constitutional Convention

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Harriet Tubman

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Helped more than 300 slaves safely flee the South by using the Underground Railroad

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Hiram Revels

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First African-American senator in history

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Patrick Henry

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Anti-Federalist leader

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John Deere

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Invented steel plow

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Kevin Cramer

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North Dakota’s US Representative

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Woodrow Wilson

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Winner of the 1916 presidential election

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Jeanette Rankin

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First women in Congress elected to the House of Representatives in 1916 from Montanta

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Nat Turner

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Led a bloody slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831

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George Dewey

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Naval commander who led the American forces that steamed in to Manila Bay and destroyed the Spanish fleet during the Spanish-American War

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Edmund Randolph

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Governor of Virginia who proposed the Virginia Plan

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William Taft

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President whose actions split the Republican party after he angered both progressives and conservationists

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Teddy Roosevelt

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At 42 years old, he was the youngest president

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Thaddeus Stevens

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Major leader of the Radical Republicans

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George Washington

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Elected presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention

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James Madison

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Proposed the idea of using the electoral college in chosing the President

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yellow journalism

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Sensational style of writing that exaggerates the truth to lure new readers

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19th Amendment

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Granted women the right to vote

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17th Amendment

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Allowed for the popular, or direct, election of senators

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Prolific Diaz

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Military dictator who ruled Mexico for more than 3 decades before the Mexican Revolution

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Reconstruction

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Period of rebuilding after the Civil War

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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Military commander during the Civil War who lead a march southeast through Georgia, creating a wide path of destruction

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William Seward

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Arranged to buy Alaska for the US from the Russians

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Sojourner Truth

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Leading spokesperson for the rights of African-American women

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manifest destiny

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the 19th century belief that the US would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific and into Mexican territory

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recall

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the procedure for removing a public official from office by a vote of the people

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referendum

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a procedure by which a proposed legislative measure can be submitted to a vote of the people

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Ex Post Facto

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a law which allows a person to be convicted or punished without a trial

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imperialism

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the policy of extending a nation’s authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means

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abolition

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movement to end slavery

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abolition

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movement to end slavery

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entrepreneurs

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a person who organizes, operates and assumes the risk for a business venture

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scalawags

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white Southerner who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War

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14th Amendment

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makes all citizens born or naturalized in the US, including former slaves, citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws

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market revolution

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the major change in the US economy produced by people’s beginning to buy and sell goods rather than make them for themselves

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Teller Amendment

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Stated that the United States had no intention of taking over any part of Cuba

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Delaware

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The first state to ratify the Constitution

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carpetbagger

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A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War

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Slavery

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Peculiar institution

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muckraker

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One of the magazine journalists who exposed the corrupt side of businesses and public life in the early 1900’s

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Battle of Vicksburg

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Turning point of civil war in the west

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initiative

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A procedure by which a legislative measure can be originated by the people rather than by the lawmakers

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Turning point of CivilWar in the east

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