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Election of 1800

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  • John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson
  • Thomas’s Jefferson won
  • decided by the House Of Reps
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Louisiana Purchase

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  • sold for $250 million (modern$)

- doubled size of US

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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-sent to explore the Louisiana Territory & find its resources

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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Caused some of the war of 1812

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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  • people who pushed for war with Great Britain

- ex.) Henry Clay& John C. Calhoun

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War of 1812 – DC burned, Fort McHenry, Battle of New Orleans

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Capitol,White House, library of congress burned, Francis Scott key writes star spangled banner
Treaty of Ghent
Took place after the treaty was signed

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The Star Spangled Banner

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  • Written at Fort Mchenry

- By Francis Scott Key

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Monroe Doctrine

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Said that the US would not interfere with wars in Europe nor any existing European colonies in America

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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The Potato famine caused Ireland to have an extreme shortage of food so they moved to America (for food)

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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Woman’s suffrage supporter
Met Susan B. Anthony at Seneca falls convention
Lucretia Mott met her at an antislavery event
First woman’s temperance association “ daughters of temperance”

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Industrial Revolution

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Late 1700s
Changed how people lived and worked
Technology that changed making cloth , water frame and spinning Jenny

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Capitalism

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People or business own property and decide how to use it

People and companies own the means of production

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Free Enterprise System

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People are free to sell and produce whatever ……capitalism

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Supply and Demand

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When demand goes up supply goes up, when it goes down so does supply

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Number One Crop in the South in the 1800’s

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Cotton

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Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin – what it did and why that was important

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  • it made harvesting cotton easier
  • could harvest 50 times more cotton each day
  • rise in southern economy
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Urban vs Rural

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Rural:small towns and villages ( country )
Urban:bigger ,more populated ( cities )

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Wilderness Road

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A path that made crossing through the Appalachian mountains easier

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Daniel Boone

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A Tennessee explorer and pioneer that created the wilderness road

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Cumberland Gap

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A gap between the Appalachian mountains that led to Boone and others to create the wilderness road

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The Corrupt Bargain

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Adams made a deal with clay saying that if clay used his power in the house to defeat Jackson , then Adams would make clay Secretary of State

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Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank

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Replacing current government employees with supporters of the winner
Jacksons supporters abandoned the caucus system ( top party leaders chose the candidates for office

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Indian Removal Act

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  • allowed federal govn’t to pay Native Americans to move west.
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Trail of Tears

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Forced the Seminole and other eastern Native Americans to move west of the ms river

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Sequoyah
Created the Native American alphabet
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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency
- tippycanoe and Tyler too | - died of pneumonia within two months because of long inoguration speech
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Manifest Destiny
The belief of spreading over the entire continent east to west
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Texas Rebellion
- remember the Alamo | - declared their independence from Mexico
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The Alamo – battle significance
A battle that helped lead the Texan forces to declare independence
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Davy Crockett
- A Texan leader in the battle of Alamo - folk hero - served three terms in congress
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Oregon Trail
-a path for many emigrants trying to get to Oregon
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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?
The "dark horse" president that fulfilled manifest destiny
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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession
- A war over Texas 's entry into the union and the disputed border between Mexico and Texas - the US said the border was along the rio grande river and Mexico said it was along the 🚨🚨🚨 river
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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush
Found a gold nugget on his land , and then gold miners came and destroyed his land .
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Brigham Young
Mormon leader that lead them to the great salt lake area and was later named governor
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Prevented slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri and allowed south of the line
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John Brown
- Believed in freedom for the slave population - led an attack killing five people in Kansas - led a raid on Harper's ferry
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Harriet Tubman
- the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad | -
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Underground Railroad
A secret network of routes to help slaves escape from the south
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Frederick Douglass
-The best known African American abolitionist
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Portrayed the brutal last fe of the slaves | - best seller
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Fugitive Slave Act
-said that anyone caught helping a fugitive could be fined or imprisoned -
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Replaced the Missouri compromise | - said that each state voted on being slave or free
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Bleeding Kansas
Fights that broke out in Kansas over slavery
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Sumner-Brooks Incident
- Senator Charles sumner lashed out against those for slavery,including Andrew P. Butler. - butlers cousin,rep. Preston brooks, walked into the senate chamber and hit sumner with a cane
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Raid on Harper’s Ferry
- John Brown led | - he tried to acquire weapons from the base and arm slaves
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Dred Scott v Sandford
- dred Scott sued his owner for his freedom | - court ruled that Scott was still a slave , showing that the constitution protected slavery
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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech
- Senate race that became the center for national attention - Slavery was the main topic - Lincoln loses ,but gained a positive national reputation that would eventually lead him to the White House
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Election of 1860
- Lincoln becomes 16th president - got more votes in north - causes South Carolina to secede
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Causes of the Civil War
- Lincoln wins election | - Attack of fort Sumter
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Fort Sumter
-it's attack led to the civil war
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Ulysses S. Grant
Union general
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Robert E. Lee
Confederate general
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Stonewall Jackson
Considered one of the most gifted tactical commanders in US history
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First Battle of Bull Run
-First major battle of the civil war
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Anaconda Plan
- Union plan for war | - Defeat the south by dividing them in two
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54th Massachusetts
- beat known African American regiment | - (under command of Robert Gould shaw)
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The Battle of Gettysburg
- Union victory - 23,000 dead =Union - 25,000 dead = Confederate
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The Battle of Vicksburg
- Union victory | - lasted 47 days
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Sherman’s March to the Sea
- a march starting in Atlanta and burning things in its path | - represented a March of freedom for slaves
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Lee Surrendering to Grant
- They met at Appomattox court house | - ended with dignity and compassion
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13th Amendment
Abolished slavery in 1865
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14th Amendment
Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the us( including African Americans) in 1866
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15th Amendment
Gave African Americans the right to vote in 1870
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Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death
Fordes theater, John Wilkes Booth, Petersen House
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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction
- Lincoln's 10% plan: forgiving on the south | - radical republicans: wanted a harsher readmission process
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Freedman’s Bureau
An agency that helped newly freed slaves make the transition to freedom
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Segregation
The separation of the races
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Jim Crow Laws
Laws that required African Americans & whites to be separated in almost every public place
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Ku Klux Klan
The largest anti- African American terrorist organization in the south

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