3rd 9wks Test Flashcards

1
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proposed a compromise tariff and ended the crisis in 1833

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Henry Clay

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2
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The idea that states can reject federal laws

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Nullification

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3
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nationalist who later defended sectionalism

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John C. Calhoun

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4
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parties use rumors and lies to attack each other during political campaigns

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mudslinging

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5
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presidents give people keep position in their administration if they supported them

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Spoils System

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6
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describe the Indian removal act of 1830

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  • gave Jackson the right to negotiate moving Indians to reserved territory
  • Jackson believed it would allow the natives to keep their way of life it would allow Americans to get the land they wanted
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7
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describe stay and local of the Jacksonian democracy

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A larger number of state and local officials were elected rather than appointed

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8
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campaigning of the Jacksonian democracy

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presidential candidates now had to conduct national campaigns

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9
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popular election of the Jacksonian democracy

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in the election of 1812 only South Carolina use the old system

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10
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founder of the first American colony in Texas

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Stephen F. Austin

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11
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first president of the republic of Texas

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Sam Housten

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12
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leader of the Mormon church after Joseph Smith died

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Brigham Young

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13
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Opened the Santa Fe Trail

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William Becknell

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14
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treaty that ended the war between the United States and Mexico

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Guadalupe Hidalgo

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15
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last battle between Mexico and Texas where Texas won independence

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San Jacinto

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16
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religious group settled in Utah

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Mormons

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17
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Believe that the United States was sure to expand from sea to shining sea

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manifest destiny

18
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land bought for 10 million from Mexico for transcontinental railroad

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Gadsden Purchase

19
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name three results of the treaty that ended the war with Mexico

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  • recognize Texas is part of the US
  • made Rio Grande River the border between Texas and Mexico
  • United States had to pay Mexico 15 million for land
20
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push factors

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  • religious and political turmoil
  • population growth in crowd
  • crop failures
  • industrial revolution
  • agriculture changes
21
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pull factors

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  • abundant land
  • economic opportunity
  • freedom
22
Q

wrote the first detective story

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Edgar Allan Poe

23
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wrote Moby Dick

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Herman Melville

24
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sounder of the Hudson river school of painting

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Asher Durand

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wrote about simple life at Walden Pond
Henry David Thoreau
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opportunities for blind people
Samuel G Howe
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opportunities for deaf people
Thomas H. Gallaudet
28
education
Horace Mann
29
asylums and prisons
Dorthea Dix
30
spoke in public about personal witness of slavery
Angelina Grimke
31
famous abolitionist who lectured about his experiences as a slave
Frederick Douglas
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escaped slave who repetitively risked life to help other slaves escape along the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
33
african-American woman who spoke out publicly Against slavery and leader in struggle for women's rights
sojourner Truth
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organized Seneca Falls convention in 1848
Elizabeth Stanton
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Man in debate who was against nullification
Daniel Webster
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worked in the temperance and anti-slavery movement and built the women's movement international organization
Susan B Anthony
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Emigrant
person who leaves the country
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Immigrant
person who comes to the country
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Group with call of restricting the influence of immigrants in the US
nativists
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belief that people find truth within themselves the feeling and intuition
transcendentalist
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two people who are transcendentalist
Margaret Fuller and Rolf Waldo Emerson