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Final Exam Flashcards

1
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Consequences of Westward

Expansion

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  1. Decimation of Native Americans
  2. Expansion of Market Revolution
  3. Opening of the Frontier (Free men could make it on their own)
  4. Explosion of Slavery on the American Political Stage
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Phase 2 1844-­1860

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  • Election of James K Polk
  • Nationalistic Phase
  • Manifest Destiny
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Phase 1 1820-­1844

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Americans move west WITHOUT government permision

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Texas

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  • Extremely Popular
  • 1820/1830 10,000 Americans migrate to TX
  • William B Travis and Stephen F. Austin start Impesario System (4,000 acres of land)
  • 1829 Mexico abolished slavery
  • 1829/1834 Santa Anna becomes president/dictator
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5
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Stephen F. Austin

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Led over 300 families to Texas

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James Bowie

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Ran from his past (Fake land deeds)

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Davy Crockett

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  • Congressman from Tennessee

- Came to Texas looking for an adventure

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Empresario System

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Offered land for credit to help migration to Texas

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Santa Anna

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  • Mexican Dictator

- Leads Battle of Alamo

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Sam Houston

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  • Leader of the Texas Army

- Rough man / Was a drunk

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Alamo

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  • Santa Anna leads 5,000 against James Bowie and Davy Crockett
  • Santa Anna sieges and takes the Alamo
  • Alamo becomes a source of INSPIRATION for Texans
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San Jacinto

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  • Sam Houston surprises Anna
  • Anna forced to sign treaties with Texas
  • New Constitution:
    1. Slavery is legal
    2. Bans free slaves from moving to Texas
  • Texas becomes a republic from 1834-1845
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13
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Oregon Trail

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Settlers landed in Independence, MO

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Utah / Mormons

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  • Living in Illinois, non-Mormons upset with Joseph Smith and kill him
  • Move west to Salt Lake
  • Brigham Young new leader
  • Polygamy
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15
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Joseph Smith

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  • First leader of the Mormons

- Arrested and the killed by a lynch mob

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Brigham Young

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  • Moved Mormons to Utah

- New leader of the Mormons after Joseph Smith

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Manifest Destiny

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Belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable

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Oregon Trail

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  • Route from Missouri to Oregon
  • Started by Fur trappers and traders
  • Only Horseback and on foot until 1836
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19
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1848 - Gold

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  • Gold rush
  • 49ers
  • California wasn’t all Americans
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Forty-Niner’s

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  • Gold Miners
  • Only lasted for 5 years
  • 800 Americans and 1200 Mexicans
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Ft. Laramie Treaty

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Compensate Plains Indians as long as they stop attacking

-Placed into the badlands / black hills

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22
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William Lloyd Garrison

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  • Abolitionist
  • The Liberator
  • Believed in Immediate emancipation
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23
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Guadalupe Hildago

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  • Mexico recognize Texas border as Rio Grande
  • President Polk WANTED to provoke war
  • Pays Mexico 15 mill for CA, NV, UT and parts of AZ, NM and CO
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Mexican War

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Mexican soldiers kill 12 Americans and Polk has a reason for war

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25
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Harriet Tubman

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  • Civil rights activist
  • Led slaves through underground railroad
  • Spy for the union
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Underground Railroad

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Secret routes and safe houses used to free slaves

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27
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Nat Turner

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  • Born a slave
  • Heard a voice from “God”
  • Gathered 6 slaves and killed masters
  • Traveled to each plantation killing all whites
28
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Southern argument for Slavery

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29
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Southern Plantation Life

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30
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David Walker

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“Appeal to the colored Citizens of the world”

  • Encouraged violence from African Americans
  • Owners tighten slaves due to article and Nat Turner
31
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James K. Polk

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32
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Wilmot Proviso

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Justification that slavery should not be allowed in territory gained from Mexican War

33
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Free Soil Party

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  • Martin Van Beuran
  • Center of Wilmot Proviso
  • Anti-Southern NOT abolitionist
  • Free: Soil, speech, labor, men
34
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Know Nothing Party

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  • American Party
  • Anti-Immigrant and Catholic
  • Citizenship should take 20 years
  • Appealed to working man and Industrial workers
  • Only around for 4 years (fall after civil war)
35
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Frederick Douglas

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“North Star”

  • Most well known escaped slave
  • Learned to read and write elegantly
  • Bought freedom after he ran away
36
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Doughface

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Northerners who favored the Southern position in political disputes

37
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Compromise of 1850

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  • CA admitted to the Union
  • Popular sovereignty determine slavery issues in Utah and NM
  • Texas border dispute resolved / TX gets 10 mill
  • Slave trade banned in Washington DC
  • Federal enforcement of Fugitive Slave Act
38
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Personal Liberty Laws

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  • Could not use jails for “slaves”

- Creative loophole to get out of slave roundup

39
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Filibuster

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.Southern Planters tried to invade Cuba

40
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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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  • Democrat Stephen Douglas: (proposed sovereignty to decide slavery)
  • Divide remainder of Louisiana Purchase into Kansas/Nebraska
41
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Lecompton Constittion

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Made slavery legal in Kansas

42
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John Brown

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  • Raid federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry

- Arrested and tried for Treason

43
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Bleeding Kansas

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  • Abolitionists and Southerners sent settlers
  • 1855 election (2,900 registered / 7,000 cast)
  • Pro-Slavery wins
  • John Brown kills several pro-slave advocates and violence erupts on both sides
44
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Abraham Lincoln

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45
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Ft. Sumpter

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46
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Secession

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47
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Northern Advantages

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48
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Southern Advantages

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49
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Battle of Manassas / 1st Battle of Bull Run

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50
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Fallacy of an ‘Easy War’

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51
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Robert E. Lee

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52
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US. Grant

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53
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Stonewall Jackson

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54
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20 Negro Law

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55
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Draft / Exemptions

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56
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Ideas of Slavery and Emancipation

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57
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Confiscation Act

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58
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Emancipation Proclamation 1862/63

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59
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13th Admendment

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60
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Gettysburg

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61
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Pickett’s Charge

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62
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Destruction of the South

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63
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William Tecumseh Sherman and the March to the Sea

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64
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Clara Barton

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65
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Appomattox Court House

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66
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Wilmer Mclean

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67
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Plains Indians

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Began attacking Americans because of the disruption of buffalo

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