Exam Flashcards
1
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People that went to California in the gold rush
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Forty-niners
2
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Withdraw from the union
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Secession
3
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Used to describe the violence in the Kansas territory over slavery
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Bleeding Kansas
4
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Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe; considered one of the causes of the civil war
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
5
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Completed the continental US
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Gadsden Purchase
6
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Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
7
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Led the Underground Railroad
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Harriet Tubman
8
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President of the confederacy
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Jefferson Davis
9
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1st state to secede from the Union
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South Carolina
10
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1st battle of the Civil War
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Fort Sumter
11
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Led a raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry to start a slave revolt; was captured and hanged
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John Brown
12
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Name the confederate states
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AL, MS, GA, SC, NC, FL, TX, LA, VA, TN, AR
13
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Led confederate army in the East
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Robert E. Lee
14
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Head of the northern army at the end of the war
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Ulysses S Grant
15
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Peace Democrats (Northern Democrats who were against the war)
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Copperheads
16
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First pointed projectile in the war
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Minnie ball
17
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Earned his nickname at Bull Run
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Thomas Jackson
18
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What is Thomas Jackson’s nickname
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Stonewall Jackson
19
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Turning point of the war in the East
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Gettysburg
20
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Turning point of the war in the West
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Vicksburg
21
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Located in Tennessee; where Albert Sidney Johnson was killed; where the hornets nest occurred; bloodiest battle in the war
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Shiloh
22
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Bloodiest one-day battle
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Antietam
23
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The largest and worst prison camp in Georgia
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Andersonville
24
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Issued after Antietam
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Emancipation Proclamation
25
Battlefield nurse that started the Red Cross
Clara Barton
26
Last major confederate victory in the war
Chickamauga
27
Took place during the battle of Gettysburg; 6000 were killed
Pickett's Charge
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Practice total war in Georgia
William Sherman
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Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
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Rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
Reconstruction
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This amendment gave slaves the right to vote
15th amendment
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This amendment freed the slaves
13th amendment
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People in the south who helped during Reconstruction
Scalawags
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Northerners who came to the south to get rich during Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
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Didn't pay rent; gave landowners half of their crops
Sharecroppers
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This amendment gave slave citizenship
14th amendment
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Paid rent for land
Tenant farmers
38
Largest vein of silver found in the West
Comstock Lode
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Where was the comstock lode found?
Carson City, Nevada
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Deep mining
Quartz mining
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Example of a boom town and ghost town
Leadville, Colorado
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Surface mining with picks and shovels
Placer mining
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Towns where gold is found and people rush to that town for gold and everyone leaves when the gold is gone
Boomtown/Ghost Town
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Trail they used for cattle backs
Chisholm Trail
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Where did the Chisholm and Sedalia trails end
Abeliene (Chisholm) and Sedalia (Sedalia)
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Land owned by the government in the Great Plains that could be used by everyone
Open range
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Gave 160 acres of land to anybody who would live on it for 5 years with a $10 fee
Homestead Act
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What farmers were called in the west
Sodbusters
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Where civilization meets unsettled land
Frontier
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Last battle of the Indian War
Wounded Knee
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Ambushed by the Sioux; he and his unit were all killed at Little Big Horn
George Custer
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Leader of the battle of Little Big Horn
Sitting Bull
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River in Wyoming where Custer was wiped out by the Sioux
Little Big Horn
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People should decide what government they want
Popular sovereignty
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Invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
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Provided for the building of the Transcontinental Railroad
Pacific Railway Act
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One of the Big Four who paid for the Central Pacific Railroad; later became governor of California and founded Stanford University
Leland Stanford
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The building of the Transcontinental Railroad was his dream
Ted Judah
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Began in Sacramento, California and moved East
Central Pacific Railroad
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Began in Omaha, Nebraska and moved West
Union Pacific Railroad
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Built the Great Northern Railroad and didn't use government money to build it
James J. Hill
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People bought supplies from a company they already owned, so they overcharged the railroad, and by the end, the investors were rich while the railroad was almost bankrupt
Credit Mobilier Scandal
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When you buy every company needed to produce your product
Vertical integration
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When you buy all the companies who are your competition
Horizontal integration
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Scottish immigrant who was very poor and was the first to bring the Bessemer process to America
Andrew Carnegie
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First industrial union in America
Knights of Labor
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Cheapest way of passage for immigrants
Steerage
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Europeans entered the US through this island in the East
Ellis Island
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Asians entered the U.S. through this island in the West
Angel Island
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The fear or dislike of immigrants
Nativism
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Apartment buildings that immigrants lived in that were crowded and run down
Tenements
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Head of Tammany Hall
Boss Tweed
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New York political machine
Tammany Hall
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Give an example of vertical integration
Carnegie
75
Wrote "How the Other Half Lives"; also a muckraker
Jacob Riis
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Give an example of horizontal integration
Standard Oil Company
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Idea developed by Carnegie that wealthy people should engage in philanthropy
Gospel of Wealth
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You can do anything you want, no matter your circumstances
Individualism
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The idea that people are not successful because of circumstances they cannot control
Naturalism
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Someone who uncovers the bad things in society
Muckrakers
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Term coined by Mark Twain that means an age where everything looked good on the outside but it was messed up on the inside
Gilded Age
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Founded Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
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Created the civil service system and ended the spoils system
Pendleton Act
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Created a budget deficit by putting a tariff on the wrong products
McKinley Tariff
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First act passed in America against a company in restraint of trade
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Regulated any industry involved in interstate commerce
ICC
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African Americans that went to Kansas during reconstruction; let by Singleton
Exodusters
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Laws to enforce segregation in the south
Jim Crowe Laws
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First Farmer's Alliance
Grange
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Began by Andrew Jackson that gave government jobs to your supporters; ended by the Pendleton Act
Spoils System
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Art movement that showed feelings over reason and logic
Romanticism
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Moderation in the use of alcohol
Temperance
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Led the slave revolt in Virginia and was hanged and 50 people died
Nat Turner
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Belief that Americans were meant to occupy the U.S.
Manifest Destiny
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People who settled on land they didn't own
Squatters
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Led the Mormons into Utah after Joseph Smith died
Brigham Young
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People who brought in at least 300 families to Texas; also named for the tracks of land given to them
Empresarios
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Mission in San Antonio Texas where all the defenders dad but it became the battle cry of the war with Mexico
The Alamo
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What California was called before became a state
Bear Flag Republic
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North plan to win the war
Anaconda plan
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List the three terms of the Anaconda plan
Blockade southern ports, split the confederacy at the Mississippi River, take control of Richmond
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List Thomas Alva Edison's inventions
Phonograph, Dictaphone, electric generator, battery, motion picture, and lightbulb
