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Final 150 Pt.2 Flashcards

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Election of 1800

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John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson

Decided by the house of reps

Jefferson won by 1 vote

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Louisiana Purchase

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France sells the territory for $15 million

Doubled the size of the US

a group of federalist threatened to secede

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Lewis and Clark were sent the new territory and find resources

Followed the Missouri River on their way The the Pacific Ocean

Made people go west to settle by sparking a sense of adventure

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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Caused the war of 1812

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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Pushed for war with Great Britain

Henry clay

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

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The capitol, the Presidents mansion, and the library of congress were burned down

Fort McHenry- fort At the entrance to the Biltmore harbor

Battle of New Orleans- took place after the treaty of Ghent

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The Star Spangled Banner

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After the attack of Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key wrote the star-spangled banner

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Monroe Doctrine

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The Western Hemisphere was no longer open for colonization

Put in place due to many Latin American nations gaining independence from Spain

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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It made the largest group of immigrants from Ireland

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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The Seneca Falls Convention

First women’s rights convention

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Industrial Revolution

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Change from an agrarian society to one based on industry

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Capitalism

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The economic system of the US

Individuals put their capital into a business in hopes of making a profit

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Free Enterprise System

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People are free to buy, sell, and produce what they want and can work when they wish

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Supply and Demand

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amount you have and what the people want

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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 allowed complete products to be made by using identical machine parts

It was important to slaves to make their work easier

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Urban vs Rural

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Urban is city

Rural is Country

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Wilderness Road

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The route to Kentucky from the Atlantic coast

Aided the early exploration of Tennessee because passing through mountains was eaiser

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Daniel Boone

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Blazed the trail that became Wilderness road

A long hunter

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Cumberland Gap

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Allowed for a path to make passing through the Appalachian mountains easier

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The Corrupt Bargain

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Henry clay meets with John Adams and agrees to use his influence to help Adams get the vote in the HOR

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Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank

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Spoils system- the practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidates

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Indian Removal Act

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Act passed by Congress in order to relocate Native Americans

Modern day oaklahoma

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Trail of Tears

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Relocation and movement of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oaklahoma

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Sequoyah
Known for creating the written Cherokee language
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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency
9th president Gave inauguration speech that lasted over 2 hrs Dies of pneumonia 32 days after
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Manifest Destiny
Belief that America should extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific Ocean
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Texas Rebellion
Stephen F. Austin recruited 300 American families to help him settle land in Mexico
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The Alamo – battle significance
The defenders of the Alamo bought Texans much needed time
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Davy Crockett
A backwoodsman from TN who volunteered to fight at the Alamo
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Oregon Trail
Used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest
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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?
11th president Unexpected winner
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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession
US thinks the border is the Rio Grande River Mexico thinks it is the Nueces River Mexican cession- Ceded California and New Mexico, in return the US gave them $15 million
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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush
John sutter obtained land in California 1st to discover gold on his property Gold rush- more than doubled the worlds supply of gold
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Brigham Young
Led a migration group to Salt Lake City, Utah
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Helped preserve the balance between the north and south Made Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state
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John Brown
A violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery
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Harriet Tubman
Most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad
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Underground Railroad
A network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people
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Fredrick Douglass
Most well known African American abolitionist Worked hard to become a powerful speaker with wisdom Edited an anti-slave newspaper called the "North Star"
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Novel that explored the issue of slavery
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Fugitive Slave Act
Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves in 1850 Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be fined The enforcement of this act caused more anger in the North
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the US
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Bleeding Kansas
Kansas became the first territory to shed blood in a Civil war over slavery
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Sumner-Brooks Incident
Senator Charles Sumner Lashed out against those for slavery
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Raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown led 18 men on a raid to attack a weapon storage facility He hoped to start a rebellion against slave holders by arming slaves
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Dred Scott v Sandford
"Dred Scott Decision" March 6, 1857 Divided the nation even more
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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech
"I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. A house divided against itself cannot stand"
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Election of 1860
Lincoln becomes 16th president
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Causes of the Civil War
Fort Sumter attack
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Fort Sumter
Beginning of the civil war
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Ulysses S. Grant
18th president
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Robert E. Lee
Against slavery, but still fought on the Confederate side
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Stonewall Jackson
One of the most gifted tactical commanders in US history
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First Battle of Bull Run
The first major battle of the Civil War
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Anaconda Plan
Union war plan to defeat the South by dividing them in two
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54th Massachusetts
Most well known African American regiment
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The Battle of Gettysburg
Lee plans an attack that he hoped would create a panic and destroy the army
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The Battle of Vicksburg
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Sherman's march to the Sea
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Lee Surrendering to Grant
April 9, 1865 It was at Appomattox Court House
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13th Amendment
Abolished slavery in -865
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14th Amendment
Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the US
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15th Amendment
Gave African American men the right to vote
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Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death
Fords theater, John Wilkes Boothe, Petersen House
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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction
10 percent plan- when 10% of voters pledged loyalty to the Union Radical Republicans- Wanted a harsher readmittion process
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Freedman’s Bureau
Agency that helped African Americans make the transition to freedom Established by Lincoln and Congress
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Segregation
Separation of the races
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Jim Crow Laws
Laws that required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place in the south
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Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan was the largest anti-African American terrorist organization in the south

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