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Final Flashcards

1
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Who led the Second Great Awakening?

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Charles Finney

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Who led the reform for suffrage?

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Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Grimke sisters

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3
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Who led the reform for prisons?

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Dorothea Dix

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4
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Who led the education reform?

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Horace Mann

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5
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Who led the abolition reform?

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William Lloyd Garrison, Fredrick Douglass

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6
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Who wrote the Liberator?

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William Lloyd Garrison

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What was the title of Douglas’ anti-slavery newspaper?

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The North Star

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Who were the two key leaders of the texans during the fight for texas independence?

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Sam Houston and Steven Austin

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9
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List the main causes of the Mexican-American war.

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Wilmot Proviso, slavery, Polk’s aspirations

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10
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What territories did Polk add?

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Oregon, Cali, Texas

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List the five key aspects of the Compromise of 1850—

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  • Cali is a free state.
  • Utah and New Mexico gain popular sovereignty
  • Texas-NM boundary resolved; Texas is paid 10 million dollars by the government
  • Slave trade banned in DC
  • Stricter Fugitive Slave Act
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12
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How did the north react to the fugitive slave act?

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Passed personal liberty laws.

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What were the two key elements of the Kansas-Nebraska act?

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  • Would repeal the Missouri Compromise

- Would establish popular sovereignty for both territories

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Explain the three parts of the Anaconda Plan

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  • Blockade southern ports,
  • Split south in two
  • Capture the capitol, richmond, va
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15
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Where did Sherman’s march start?

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Chatanooga

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16
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Where did Sherman’s march end?

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Savannah

17
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Explain the ten percent plan-

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10% of voters had to swear allegiance to the union

18
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Who won the battle of bull run and why was it important?

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the south; it was the first real battle of the war

19
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Who won the battle of antietam and why was it important?

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the north; mcclellan is fired

20
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Who won the battle of gettysberg?

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the north; turning point of the war

21
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who won the battle of vicksburg and why was it important?

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the north; it split the confederacy

22
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What is the 13th amendment?

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Slavery is abolished.

23
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What is the 14th amendment?

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All persons born in the US are citizens

24
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What is the 15th amendment?

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Citizens cannot be kept from voting regardless of…

25
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What did Andrew Johnson believe about reconstruction?

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Wanted to harshly punish the south

26
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Who was thaddeus stevens?

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Leader of radical republicans

27
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What restricted African Americans from voting?

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Poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests, etc

28
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What is bimetallism?

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A form of money where gold and silver are used to back money

29
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What is horizontal integration?

A

Buying out competitors

30
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What is vertical integration?

A

Buying all parts of the process

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