chapter 14 notes

Question 0

Pioneer

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First to enter a new land or region

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Settlers moved west from the Appalachian Mountains because

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Poor people could get enough land for farming

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NA’s were the first people

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To live west of the Appalachians

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The wilderness road founded by Daniel Boone was also called the

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Cumberland Gap

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Slavery came to territories in the west

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Settlers from the south brought slaves to the west

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Abraham Lincoln

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• pioneer family in Kentucky * moved to Indiana in 1816 * moved to Illinois in 1830 * helped his dad on the farm

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Daniel Boone

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• made a trail from North Carolina to Kentucky ( Cumberland Gap ) * died in 1820

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The House of Representatives decision to impeach Chase led to the decision that

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A judge could be removed from office only for committing a criminal act

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The Supreme Court had the power to decide

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Whether or not a law was constitutional

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The Louisiana Purchase

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• doubled the size of the US * brought the LT from France * now there is more land available to farmers

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Neutral

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Someone who does not take sides

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War Hawks

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• called this because they wanted the US to take Florida from Spain and Canada from Brittian

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Francis Scott Key

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Wrote the Star-Spangled Banner

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The importance of the war of 1812 was that it

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Preserved American Independence and showed that the US could defend it’s territory

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The Monroe Doctrin

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• stated that the US would not allow European powers to establish any new colonies in the Americas