11-15 Flashcards
(112 cards)
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where did the 49ers find gold on January 24, 1848
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Sutter’s Mill
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When did the 49ers get there
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got there in 1849
3
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How did the 49ers find the gold
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They panned for it
4
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a brassy yellow mineral, pyrite
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Fool’s gold
5
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Who wrote the Compromise of 1820
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Henry Clay
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Describe the Compromise of 1820
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Missouri went to a slave state and Maine went to a free state
Also called the Missouri/Maine Compromise
They had the 36 degrees/ 30 minutes
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What did Harriet B Stowe do
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She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin first come out
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First came out in pamphlet form and not in book form kinda like a tv series
9
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What was the book (Uncle Tom’s Cabin) about
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Talked about slaves in the south
10
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How did they threaten the slaves
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They threaten them with Sail them down river (the hotter you got), splitting up families
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What was 2 things that were illegal for the slaves
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It is illegal to teach a slave to read or write.
Illegal for slaves to marry
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most slaves did not have last names and so there was little record of any slaves
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Genealogy
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How did the Slaves go to church
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went to church with their owners, owners sat in the bottom of the church and slaves sat in the balcony.
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What came into effect during January 1863
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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What was The Emancipation Proclamation
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Ended slavery in the south
16
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we would control the continent from east to west.
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Manifest Destiny
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The north was scared of Texas
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Texas annexation
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Texas was granted statehood when
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1845
19
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tried to get their own independence from Mexico
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The Alamo
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home of the Alamo
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San Antonio, Texas
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Who created the Boui knife
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John Boui
22
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Who all died during the Alamo
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Everybody died at the Alamo
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What was Texas’s battle cry and why
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Remember the Alamo; because they wanted to get revenge
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First President of Texas
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Sam Houston
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What famous Texan was known for wanting to get rid of slavery
John Brown
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He tried to steal a lot of weapons for the slaves
John Brown
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federal arsenal where they stored guns and things
Harpers ferry
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Who fired the first shots and where
Fort Sumter and you don't really know exactly
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where they had to separate the slaves 1 and 1
Bleeding Kansas
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She was known from the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
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stocks they made on the "Railroad"
stations
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She was a leader in the trail and things ; conductor
Harriet Tubman
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How did they (the slaves) know where they were on the Underground Railroad
used the north star
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She was also know from the underground railroad
| She was also a conductor on the railroad HINT: THIS ONE IS NOT HARRIET TUBMAN
Sojourner Truth
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What were the slaves looking for and why. When did they start looking for them
They always look for quakers because they took care of the slaves if they made it to Pennsylvania
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Who wrote the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
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hunted the slaves that had escape for money
Bounty hunters
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Who was the 2 famous people killed in the Alamo
Davy Crockett and John Boui
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people who settled in the prairie
Prairie Settlers
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these people followed the buffalo wherever they went
Nomads
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What did the Settlers do to the Buffalo and why
the settlers came in they killed all the buffalo because they were killing all their crops
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What did railroad companies do to Buffalo and why
killed the buffalo because they would get in the way of them on their way to somewhere else
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was the nickname for the United States because we have so many people from different places
The Melting Pot
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Why did the Irish come to The US of A
came because they ran out of potatoes.
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Where did these people go? (Immigrants)
They went to bigger cities to get jobs.
They couldn’t get the best jobs because a lot of people were ethnocentric.
They had to go to the dangerous jobs like coal mining.
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Why was coal mining dangerous
It was dangerous because it was underground. At any moment the mine could calapspe and there is also not very good air
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What did the Immigrants have when they came
When they got here they had the clothes on their back and maybe one more pair of clothes
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when you use anything around to build your house
Substandard housing
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Was the main man in the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
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was a famous writer and had a lot of money
Pursy Rose
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North advantages (Union)
The North is industrial
Had a advantage with railroads to transport
Had bigger populations so there was more of them
North was cold- Home field advantage
Had trained soldiers
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South Advantages (Confederates)
The South agricultural
| South was hot- Home field advantage
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South Disadvantages
South had farmers for soldiers
Wealthy people would send a second-which is a person they pay to fight for them in the war
Farmers weren’t wealthy enough to send anybody
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What was the purpose of the Civil War?
to preserve the union
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What were the names of the War
The Civil War
The war between state
war across five aprils
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How long was the war
April 12, 1861- April 9, 1865
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How many States succeeded from the union?
11
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Who were the first people to fire a shot?
Many say the south by no one really knows
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Where was the first shots fired
Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina
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What was Brooks/Sumner Caning and who were the men involved
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Preston Brooks (southern); Charles Sumner(northern)
Brooks started to beat Sumner with his cane, nearly to death.
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people who want to have a war (southerns)
Fire Eaters
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extra tax you put on exported goods
Tarif
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if one person ignores the laws
The Nullification Crisis
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Where was the South's original capitol and where was it moved to
The capital was in Montgomery, AL
| Then Moved the Richmond, VA
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Declined the job to lead to union
| Said if VA left so was he
Robert E Lee
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Lee surrenders to Grant when and where
April 1865
| Appomattox Courthouse
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First major battle of the Civil War
Manasus
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How where battles named
after either the closes river or closest town
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How many people died in the war
600,000 deaths during war
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When was Lincoln elected
1860
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Where was Lincoln born and where did he grow up
Born in Kentucky
| Moved and grew up to Illinois
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What was his trade (job)
A lawyer
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Where did Honest Abe come from
When his wife spent over the $1,000 for the remodeling of the White House, he paid the debt out of his own pocket
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Who did he marry and how many kids did he have
Mary Todd Lincoln
| They had 4 kids and their family line ended
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What did the Union do w/ Robert E Lee after the war
got his citizenship taken away
| They also took down his house and made a cemetery out of his land because he caused all of their deaths
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What was Picket's Hill
Picket was ordered to go up a hill and it didn't work out well.
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What was signification about the Battle of Gettysburg
Largest death casualty in a battle
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Gettysburg Address
Lincoln spoke for about 10 mins and wasn't the main speaker
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Battle of Antietam
Largest death casualty count in a day
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13th amendment
Freed slaves
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14th amendment
made them citizens
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15th amendment
right to vote
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16th amendment
income tax
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Andersonville Prison
Said to be as hard as the Holocaust concentration camps
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Henry Wirz
Was the only person to be charged with War crimes
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What was the Anaconda Plan
the north tried to Mississippi river as a guideline
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Battle of Vicksburg
If you had control of Vicksburg you got control of the Mississippi River
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Battle of Mobile Bay involved what forts
Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines
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who was the commander for Mobile Bay
Farragut
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As the battle went on his would sit on his horse no matter what the war looked like
Stonewall Jackson
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How did Stonewall died and where did he die
He was shot by friendly fire
| Died at the Battle of Chancellorsville
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What did Robert E Lee say after Stonewall die
that he lost his right arm because he was that important
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Nathan Bedford
first KKK grand wizard
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Who was Matthew Brady and how was he used
Civil War photographer
Used for weapon
They also had hot air balloons
Spies
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Burned atlanta
Destroyed everything in his path
Also took away railroad tracks
Sherman
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Where John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln
Ford's Therate
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What show were they watching
“Our American Cousin”
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Similarities between John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln
Both shot
Both were born 100 years aparts
Both served in the senate
Lincoln’s secretary named Kennedy and Kennedy named Lincoln
Both had a VP named Johnson
Lincoln elected in 1860, Kennedy elected in 1960
Kennedy saw Marilyn Monroe and Lincoln went to Monroe, Maryland right before they died
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Fredrick Douglas
was a freed slave
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was a confederate boat
| Raphael Semmes was the captain
CSS ALABAMA
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Amistad Case
One of the lawyers on that case
Son of John Adams
John Q Adams
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PGT Beauregard (know his full name)
Southern confederate leader
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Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
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who was JEB Stuart
a southern
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Is the only president not buried on American soil because at the time he was buried Virginia was not apart of the United States
John Tyler
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All of the wagons were lined up and they look like trains
| They had a leader at the top of the trains
Oregon Trail
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what did they do in the Oregon Trail if the indians attacked
They circled the women and children
| Indians used flaming arrows to take down the trains
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having bravery
Counting coo
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Sherman’s March to the Sea
As he is going through the south he is burning everything in his path
Burning of atlanta was the biggest thing he burnt
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The little giant
He had a big speaking voice
Big politician
He said what you want to hear.
Stephen A Douglass
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Lincoln’s VP
Became president after Lincoln died
Lame duck president
Andrew Johnson
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George Gordon Meade
Union commander
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Leaving the union
Secession
