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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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8
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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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14
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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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24
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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

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Known for creating the written Cherokee language

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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency

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9th president

Gave inauguration speech that lasted over 2 hrs

Dies of pneumonia 32 days after

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Manifest Destiny

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Belief that America should extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific Ocean

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Texas Rebellion

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Stephen F. Austin recruited 300 American families to help him settle land in Mexico

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The Alamo – battle significance

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The defenders of the Alamo bought Texans much needed time

30
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Davy Crockett

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A backwoodsman from TN who volunteered to fight at the Alamo

31
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Oregon Trail

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Used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest

32
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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?

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11th president

Unexpected winner

33
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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession

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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

34
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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush

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John sutter obtained land in California

1st to discover gold on his property

Gold rush- more than doubled the worlds supply of gold

35
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Brigham Young

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Led a migration group to Salt Lake City, Utah

36
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Helped preserve the balance between the north and south

Made Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state

37
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John Brown

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A violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery

38
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Harriet Tubman

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Most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad

39
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Underground Railroad

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A network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people

40
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Fredrick Douglass

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Most well known African American abolitionist

Worked hard to become a powerful speaker with wisdom

Edited an anti-slave newspaper called the “North Star”

41
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Novel that explored the issue of slavery

42
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Fugitive Slave Act

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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

43
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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the US

44
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Bleeding Kansas

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Kansas became the first territory to shed blood in a Civil war over slavery

45
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Sumner-Brooks Incident

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Senator Charles Sumner Lashed out against those for slavery

46
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Raid on Harper’s Ferry

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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

47
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Dred Scott v Sandford

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“Dred Scott Decision”

March 6, 1857

Divided the nation even more

48
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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech

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“I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. A house divided against itself cannot stand”

49
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Election of 1860

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Lincoln becomes 16th president

50
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Causes of the Civil War

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Fort Sumter attack

51
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Fort Sumter

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Beginning of the civil war

52
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Ulysses S. Grant

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18th president

53
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Robert E. Lee

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Against slavery, but still fought on the Confederate side

54
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Stonewall Jackson

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One of the most gifted tactical commanders in US history

55
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First Battle of Bull Run

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The first major battle of the Civil War

56
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Anaconda Plan

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Union war plan to defeat the South by dividing them in two

57
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54th Massachusetts

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Most well known African American regiment

58
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The Battle of Gettysburg

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Lee plans an attack that he hoped would create a panic and destroy the army

59
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The Battle of Vicksburg

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………..

60
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Sherman’s march to the Sea

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………….

61
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Lee Surrendering to Grant

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April 9, 1865

It was at Appomattox Court House

62
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13th Amendment

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Abolished slavery in -865

63
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14th Amendment

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Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the US

64
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15th Amendment

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Gave African American men the right to vote

65
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Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death

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Fords theater, John Wilkes Boothe, Petersen House

66
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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction

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10 percent plan- when 10% of voters pledged loyalty to the Union

Radical Republicans- Wanted a harsher readmittion process

67
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Freedman’s Bureau

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Agency that helped African Americans make the transition to freedom

Established by Lincoln and Congress

68
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Segregation

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Separation of the races

69
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Jim Crow Laws

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Laws that required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place in the south

70
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Ku Klux Klan

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The Ku Klux Klan was the largest anti-African American terrorist organization in the south

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