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US1 Final Flashcards

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Cash Crop

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A crop grown for money rather than use

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5 Civilized Tribes

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Cherokee
They took on the white man’s ways
They were ejected unfairly from their lands by Andrew Jackson

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How many trail of tears were there?

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2

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Intolerable Acts

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a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.

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Declaration of Independence

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American breakaway from Britain, held no legal value, (purely symbolic)

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Louisiana Purchase

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Thomas Jefferson
United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million

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Stamp Act

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The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.

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Battle of Saratoga

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turning point in the Revolutionary War

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Battle of Lexington/Concord

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American victory

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Proclamation Line of 1763

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a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide

So that Americans couldn’t produce furs

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Propoganda

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Common Sense
Uncle Johns Cabin

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1st Amendment

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Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise.

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2nd Amendment

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Right to bear arms

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5th Amendment

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no self incrimination

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13th Amendment

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no more slavery

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14th Amendment

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It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people

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15th Amendment

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granted African American men the right to vote.

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Frederick Douglass

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Radical Abolitionist
Escaped Slave

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Thaddeus Stevens

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Radical Abolitionists

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Northwest Ordinance

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Land surveying in the midwest

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Articles of Confederation

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first try at our government
major fail

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Shay’s Rebellion

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uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions.
farmers

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Whiskey Rebellion

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a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington.

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Virginia-Kentucky Resolution

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response to alien-sedition acts

by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson

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Nationalism

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the belief that your country is superior, without question or doubt

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Sectionalism

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caring more about you region than your country

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Impeachment

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process of bringing charges against a government official for wrongdoing

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National Road

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road for western expansion
manifest destiny

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2nd Great Awakening

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started social reforms
labor, women’s suffrage, educational reform

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Compromise of 1850/Gold Rush

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five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States

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Upton Sinclair/Jungle

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muckraker
wrote about social bad things

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laissez faire government

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minimal government interference in the economy

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Wade Davis Bill

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50% of all voters in the Confederate states, as opposed to Lincoln’s proposed 10%, must pledge allegiance to the Union before reunification.

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Black Codes

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restricted black people’s right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces

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Social Darwinism

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capitalism, if you aren’t smart you won’t survive

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George Washington

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good at recognizing talent

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Samuel Adams

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a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, a signer of the Declaration of Independence

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Eli Whitney

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Invented Cotton Gin

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Cotton Gin

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Machine that made short staple cotton profitable

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Federalist Papers

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a collection of essays written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton in 1788. The essays urged the ratification of the United States Constitution

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Anti- Federalists

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People who opposed ratification of the US Constitution

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10% Plan

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after the civil war, lincoln proposed that if confederate states had 10% of their population against slavery, then they could rejoin the union, however lincoln was killed soon after this and only arkansas, tennessee and louisiana

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Land Ordinance of 1785

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It laid out the process by which lands west of the Appalachian Mountains were to be surveyed and sold

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Manifest Destiny

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American Nationalism: americans pushed west destroying anything in their path because “God gave them approval” to do so

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Embargo Act

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closed U.S. ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain

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Sherman’s March to the Sea

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First example of total war

Sherman made confederate soldiers come home which ultimately led to their inability to wage war

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Total War

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first happened in the civil war

when war is fought regardless of if it will harm civilians or destroy infrastructure

Sherman’s March to The Sea

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Muckrakers

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Investigative reporters
they find all the “dirt” on people and things
gossip column

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Social Darwinism

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Capitalism

If you are not smart, you might not make it

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Ellis and Angel Island

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First Immigration ports for immigrant

angel: mostly asian
ellis: mostly european

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“Common Man”

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uneducated masses
largely irish and illiterate

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Samuel Slater

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“Father of the American Industrial Revolution”

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American Systems

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an economic plan proposed by Senator Henry Clay that called for high tariffs to support internal improvements such as road-building

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Missouri Compromise of 1820

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admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time

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Annexation of Texas

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a provision permitting Texas to retain title to its public lands

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Sharecropping

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Former slaves could live on farms as long as they gave half of their crops to their landlord as rent

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Tenant Farming

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when former slaves couldn’t pay for rent, they would have to pay off their debt for generations (this occurred until the 1930s)

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National Bank

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Alexander Hamilton’s grand experiment in central banking began in 1791 to assist a post-Revolutionary War economy and ended 20 years later

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Mexican War

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invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848

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Oregon Issue

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19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations in the region.

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Oregon Trail

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path west for people
very difficult and dangerous

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