US History to 1865 Final Flashcards

1
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________ issued a neutrality proclamation in May of 1793 bc he felt that this would stop debates about supporting sides

A

Washington

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Slaves in the French colony of Haiti rebelled against their owners in the ______ _____

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Haitian Revolution

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_____ ______ was elected the 2nd president of the US

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John Adams

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____ _____ with France prompted the Federalists to seek potential war with them. French ministers tried to ___ Americans

A

Maritime disputes, bribe

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____ _____ occured when a Virginian slave plotted a revolt modelled on the Haitian slave rebellion. Though it never materialized, knowledge of the plan heightened general anxiety in the US over the continued possibility of slaves

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Gabriel’s Rebellion

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_____ ______ meant that Jefferson sought to symbolically scale back the tastes and pageantry of previous administrations

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Republican Simplicity

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___ and ______ went on an expedition (hired by Jefferson) to investigate Indian territory from Mississippi River out to the Pacific Ocean

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Lewis, Clark

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_______ + _________ occured when France and England pressed the US not to aid their enemies

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Barbary Wars, Maritime Troubles

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9
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The ______ Act of 1807 prohibited American Ships from engaging in trade in any foreign post

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Embargo

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____ ____ ran for president and won in 1808, he was the 4th president and he wrote the Constitution of the United States and was a main supporter of central government in America

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James Madison

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______ continued foreign policy liked Jefferson

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Madison

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_____ ____ was the presidentress of the United States - she modeled the idea of what a First Lady would look like and she became a key player in society in D.C>

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Dolley Madison

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_____ tribes, led by Chief Tecumseh, solidified his Indian Confederacy in the Northwest Territory

A

Shawnee

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Indiana’s governor, ____ ____ ____, made agreements with other tribal leaders to buy 3 million acres of Indian land which ended up infuriating Tecumseh, the Indian leader

A

William Henry Harrison

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_____ marched through Europe during 1812 and Americans questioned whether they should be on the side of the French or the English

A

Napolean

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The strict Embargo Act was replaced with a ___ _______ ____ in 1809 that allowed trade with foreign powers outside of England, France, and their colonies

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non-intercourse act

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In 1810 the Non Intercourse Act expired and Congress allowed for ____ with foreign powers

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trade

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18
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Henry Clay and John Calhoun led the group called the ___ ___

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Wark Hawks

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19
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The US attacked _____ but did not gain much over the course of two and a half years

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Canada

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Indians led by Tecumseh gained in strength and sided with the _______

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British

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21
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In August of 1814, the British offensive of British Ships began in _________ ____

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Chesapeake Bay

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In 1814, during the battle of 1812, DC was thrown into panic and people rushed to _____ as the city ____

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evacuate, burned

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23
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_____ _____ grabbed a portrait of George Washington and President Madison’s papers

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Dolley Maddison

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It was during the burning of DC amid the Battle of 1812 that ___ ___ ___ composed the Star Spangled Banner

A

Francis Key Scott

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25
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____ ____ _____ occured when Jacksons force was resoundingly victorious in the battle against the british

A

Battle of New Orleans

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26
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The ____ of _____ was signed between the British and the US in 1815

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Treaty, Ghent

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27
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The ____ of _____ gave a rise of American nationalism as Americans fought the British and won the right to their land. The biggest winners were the War Hawks who carried the Republican party in new directions while the biggest losers were the Indians

A

War, 1812

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28
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Virginian Republicans maintained a hold on the presidency as _______ was elected in 1816 and 1820

A

James Monroe

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The ________ Compromise occurred in 1820 and raised the issue of whether another slave state should be admitted to the Union

A

Missouri

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30
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The ____ _______ caused the American Continents by free constitution which they have assumed are not to be assumed as subjects for future colonization

A

Monroe Doctrine

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31
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___ ____ ____ was president during the era of the Republican Complexity

A

John Quincy Adams

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32
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The Virginian Dynasty included ______, _________, and _____

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Jefferson, Adams, and Monroe

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33
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Confidence and an _______ spirit increased in America after 1815

A

entrepreneurial

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34
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_____ _____ includes changes in transportation, texture mills and factories creating jobs, innovation and legal practices, as well as an increase in tarriffs

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Market revolution

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35
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____ _______ are led by private investors and companies who gained monopolies over stagecoach, canal, steamboat, and railway routes

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travel innovations

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36
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rapid expansion of ______ occured after 1815 and included textile mills and shoemaking as well as factory style organization

A

manufacturing

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37
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the ____ ______ of Europe occurred in 1819 and worsened the situation in the US which was experiencing a contraction of funds as banking called in loans

A

financial crisis

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38
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The 1828 Election occurred between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Jackson was referred to as ___ ______

A

Old Hickory

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39
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The Election of _____ was the first presidential election in which the president was determined by popular vote

A

1828

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40
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By 1834/36, National republicans called themselves “_____
and Democratic Republicans called themselves “_____

A

Whigs, Democrats

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41
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_____ won the ‘34 election by popular vote. He believed in limited federal government

A

Jackson

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42
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____ _____ suffrage became a popular topic - individuals desired freedom to vote regardless of the amount of land they owned

A

white male

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43
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__________ democratic agenda was committed to his image as a “_____ _____”. He had an aggressive frontier policy

A

Jackson’s, common man

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44
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Jackson believed that _____ removal was paramount in American

A

Indian

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45
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The _____ ______ was the campaign for moral reform in American that occured in the late 1830s

A

Temperance Movement

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46
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By the late 1830’s, _____ became a divisive topic

A

slavery

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47
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_______ leaned in sympathy toward the Whig Party

A

Abolitionists

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48
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Jackson defined the ____ party and discussed politics of opportunity

A

democrats

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49
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Jackson caused the Indian removal route of 1830 causing the ____ __ __

A

Trail of Tears

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50
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Jackson passed the _____ ______ Act of 1830

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Indian Removal

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51
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During the ___ ____, the banks had concentrated undue economic power in the hands of few

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Bank War

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52
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During the _____ of ______ national debt disappeared and a surplus of government funds caused the general economic pressure of 1837

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Panic, 1837

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53
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___ ____ ____ had a one term presidency which took the brunt of the 1837 panic and worked to stabilize financial panic

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Martin Van Buren’s

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54
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The ____ _____ was the idea that white Americans by Providence had a mission to expand Westward

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Manifest Destiny

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55
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There was a dispute between Britain and the US as to whether _____ Country belonged to them

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Oregon

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56
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The _____ _____ occurred in 1830 when Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

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Mormon Exodus

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57
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In 1821, ____ won its independence from the United States, and in 1829, it sought more independence

A

Mexico

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58
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At the ________, rebels took refuge in this Franciscan mission during the course of which the Mexican army shot 300 men and killed 137 of those at the refuge

A

Alamo

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59
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President _____ was supportive of the idea of annexing Texas; before he entered office Texas was officially annexed to the US

A

Polk

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60
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During the ___ _____ War, General Zachary Taylor in Texas took 4000 men in an army to the banks of the Rio Grande (the dividing line of dispute) into Mexico

A

Mexican American

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61
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General ____ ____ was the US General primarily involved with the Mexican Award

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Zachary Taylor

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62
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The Mexican American War was also called ____ _____

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Polk’s War

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63
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General _____ successfully helped American push South

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Taylor

64
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_____ ____ were discovered in the American River near the Sierra Nevada in 1848

A

Gold Flakes

65
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the ___ ____ occurred between 1849 and 1852 and caused more than 250,000 49ers to move to the Golden State. This also attracted a lot of _____

A

gold rush, immigrants

66
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By 1860, there was economic and ______ growth in American

A

industrial

67
Q

____ ____ patterned an innovative plow that quickened work in 1837

A

John Deere

68
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___ _____ developed a wheat reaper that made harvesting quicker

A

Cyrus McCormick

69
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By 1850, ____ traversed over 9000 miles of track, motlu in New England and in the Mid Atlantic States

A

trains

70
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Railroads quickened transportation and allowed for the massive growth of the ____ and _____ industries

A

Iron, coal

71
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The _____ also boomed around the time of 1844 to prevent train crashes

A

telegraph

72
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____ ______ was the idea that as a laborer, you were also free and independent and may benefit and grow from your wages - this could lead you to higher positions in society, even without prior connections or inheritance

A

free labor

73
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Freed black abolitionists such as ____ ____ pushed abolitionist rights

A

Frederick Douglas

74
Q

By the 1830s, ______ stretched from Southern Virginia to central Texas

A

Cotton

75
Q

By 1860 many Southern States had _____ (albeit enslaved) majorities

A

black

76
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The ______ ______ position was that white southerners were caring for slaves and argued that states had the right to regulate slavery

A

pro-slavery

77
Q

The major cash crops of the Plantation Economy were ____, ____, _____, and _____

A

cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco

78
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the south was ______ and ____ based

A

agricultural, slave

79
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the plantation culture was based on the code of _____

A

chivalry

80
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slaves most often worked as ___ ____

A

field hands

81
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plantation belt _____ lived within the orbit of the planter class and were able to make some profit off crops

A

yeomen

82
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slave holding political officials tried to win the sway of _____ class folk

A

lower

83
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There was an ______ evolution in the South with the cotton plantation economy booming

A

industrial

84
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the _____ _____ had to do with the acquisition of territory from Mexico during which there was a heated debate as to whether slavery should be allowed or not.

A

Wilmot Proviso

85
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PA Democrat, ___ _____ proposed that Congress ban slavery from all territory acquired in war.

A

David Wilmot

86
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___ ____ propositions got supported from those against freedoms for african Americans, aka “white man’s proviso”

A

Free soil

87
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During the election of ____, fragmentation of parties concerning the slavery concreted that Democrats were pro-slavery

A

1848

88
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Anti-slavery whigs and democrats called for a new party called the ___ _____ party which nominated VanBuren

A

free soil

89
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______ won the 1848 election and took a free soil approach to the new territories

A

Taylor

90
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The ______ of ______ was created through legislation guided by IL and settled an uneasy compromise between the North & South - it admitted that CA was a free state, and determined the TX boundary.

A

Compromise of 1850

91
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Northerners began to see the brutality of slavery through novels like Uncle Tom’s Cabin written by ____ _____

A

Harriet Beecher Stowe

92
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Northerner’s resistance to the ____ ___ ___ upset the South

A

Fugitive Slave Law

93
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in the ______ election, the whig party divided between the North and South, anti and pro-slavery

A

1852

94
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In 1852, Democrats successfully elected ____ of New Hampshire

A

Piercer

95
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The ____ _____ act dealt with the issue of railroad building which led to disputes about territores becoming states -> Senator Douglas introduced this act which settled the dispute

A

Kansas Nebraska

96
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The ____ _____ were a nativist movement that was anti-catholic and often called the “American party” - they kept their information to themselves

A

know-nothings

97
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The Election of 1856 was Freemont vs. Buchanan. The ______ (Freemont) wanted to make all territory free and ______labeled Republicans extremists

A

republicans, democrats

98
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__ ______ became a key point of conflict after the KS NE Act of 1854, and was the prelude to the Civil War. It occured because KS elected a pro-slavery gov. and an anti-slavery gov. causing fightin to start on May 21 of 1856

A

Bleeding Kansas

99
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____ ____ was a radical anti-slavery soldier who attacked pro-slavery individuals at Pottawatomie

A

John Brown

100
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THe 1857 Supreme Court Trial ____ vs. ____ ruled that MS slave sued for freedom based on his traveling to different states could not be free on account of the fact that he was not a citizen and his home state was a slave state

A

Scott v. Sanford

101
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The Supreme Court Scott v. Sanford declared the ____ ____ to be unconstitutional

A

Missouri Compromise

102
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the ____ _____ Debates occurred seven times prior to Douglas’ winning of Douglas

A

Lincoln Douglas

103
Q

___ ____ occurred when democratic candidates were not secessionists after the election and southerners considered their options … SC seceded first

A

secession winter

104
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“____ ______ “ president is one who successor has already been elected causing him to just be waiting plaintively in office

A

lame duck

105
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_____ was a lame duck president and did nothing about secession

A

Buchanan

106
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Lincoln had a _______ tone in his inauguration speech as his main goal of the presidency was an end to _______

A

conciliatory, secession

107
Q

First shot of the Civil War occurred at ____ ___

A

Fort Sumter

108
Q

Fort Sumter surrendered to the _____

A

South

109
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The North was infuriated at the occurrence at Sumter. Lincoln called up 75,000 men and Northern ____ denounced the South, including Senator Douglas

A

Democrats

110
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Many in the _____ denounced ____ for not “upholing the peace” he had promised

A

South, Lincoln

111
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_______ _____initally denounced the secession of the southern states but eventually fought on behalf of VA when it seceded

A

Robert Lee

112
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The _____ Strategy of the Civil war was that it would win through land mass and military strategy called “offensive defensive” as devised by Jefferson

A

Southern

113
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The ________ strategy of the Civil War was that if the North did nothing, the south by default would be soverign …. they declared a naval blockade of the Confederacy

A

Northern

114
Q

____ ______ was president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He had war and political experience but little capcity for large military strategy

A

Jefferson Davis

115
Q

_____ ______ had little political experience but proved to be a strong leader as the President of the US during the Civil War

A

Abraham Lincoln

116
Q

before secession, much of the US army had been scattered across the west fighting ______

A

Indians

117
Q

the Capitol of Union ______ and Confederacy _____ were only 90 miles apart

A

D.C., Richmond

118
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The Battle of ____ _____ or ________ ended in the retreat of the Union forces as confederates were resupplied with reinforcements

A

Bull Run, Manasses

119
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Lincoln replaced McDowell with ______, who had a contrasting personality to Lee. He was temporarily replaced by Pope but then put back in for the battle of Antietem

A

McClellan

120
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The Battle of ________ was the bloodiest day of the whole war, Union forces had a copy of Lee’s orders which a confederate troop had wrapped around cigars he had carelessly dropped

A

Antietam

121
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_____ _____ emerged as key general and led troops to capture Ft. Henry on the Tennessee River and forced COnfederates to withdraw

A

Ulysses Grant

122
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____ ____ were wooden ships layered with 2 inches of armor plate which caused some damage by sinking Union ships but no definitive confederate victories

A

ironclad frigates

123
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Lincoln made it clear that an alliance with the Confederacy was an alliance with _____

A

slavery

124
Q

____ control of congress pushed for more abolitionist laws such as the Confiscation Act of 1861

A

Republican

125
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Lincoln’s _____ Proclamation occured in 1863 and was a huge movement in the freedom of all slaves

A

Emancipation

126
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___ ____ was subsizidized by the Union government to create a fast mailing system in the US

A

Pony Express

127
Q

Battles of ____ and ____ were essential to the turning point of the Civil War

A

Vicksburg, Gettysburg

128
Q

Victory of the Union occurred at the battle of ______

A

Chattanooga

129
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Battle of _______ was a battle of the Union and confederates in the woods in which both lost many men

A

wilderness

130
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Siege of _____ occured when Grant cut railroad and laid siege to the confederate capitol

A

Siege

131
Q

______ March to the ______ occured when Sherman marched 100,000 men all the way from TN to GA and burned GA

A

Sherman’s March to the Sea

132
Q

Surrender of General Grant occured at _______ Court House in VA

A

Appomattox

133
Q

One day after the Civil War, Lincoln was _____ at ____ ___

A

assasinated, Ford’s Theater

134
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With france and England at War, President George Washington proposed to _____ ______

A

remain neutral

135
Q

As a Secretary of the Treasury, who proposed a national central bank modeled on the Bank of England>

A

Hamilton

136
Q

Which rebellion did President Gorge Washington lead a military force again?

A

Whiskey Rebellion

137
Q

Under President ________ the US expanded its territory west with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 from the French

A

Jefferson, Louisiana Purchase

138
Q

Which first Lady Hosted “squeezes” at the White House?

A

Dolley Madison

139
Q

A Native American confederacy led by Tecumseh allied with the British French or Americans in the War of 1812?

A

British

140
Q

Which major city was burned by the British in the War of 1812?

A

Washington, D.C.

141
Q

Which general led US troops to a decisive, though uneccessary victory at the Battle of New Orleans?

A

Jackson

142
Q

Which 3 Republican presidents made up the Virginia Dynasty?

A

Jefferson, Madison, Monroe

143
Q

Lewis and Clark were supposed to learn more about ________ ____ _____

A

native american territory

144
Q

What was the one of the main strengths of the Confederacy?

A

Area of land controlled

145
Q

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

A

Jefferson Davis

146
Q

Which battle was the bloodiest day of the Civil War?

A

Antietam

147
Q

Which Union general led the North to victories in the Western Theater?

A

Grant

148
Q

Lincoln signed which document which proclaimed all slaves free?

A

The Emancipation Proclamation

149
Q

What two battles were significant turning points in the Civil War?

A

Vicksburg, Gettysburg

150
Q

Which presidential canidate in 1828 was known for his image as a rough military frontiersman and a common man

A

Andrew Jackson

151
Q

What was Andrew Jackson’s nickname?

A

Old Hickorry

152
Q

What were some new political features of the 1828 election?

A

Popular election for president and all white men, even those without property, could vote

153
Q

Jackson’s Indian Removal Policy of 1830 caused Georgia Cherokee Indians to leave for Indian Territory via a route called

A

The Trail of Tears

154
Q

Whig politicians pushed for policies related to

A

abolition and moral reform

155
Q

Which democratic president pushed for the annexation of Texas and war with Mexico?

A

Poke

156
Q

A mormon exodus settled around the Great Salt Lakes in what would later be the state of ____-

A

Utah

157
Q

Two American political parties in the 1830s and 1840s were the _______ (Nationalist Republicans) and ______ (Democratic Republicans)

A

Whigs, Democrats