Midterm review Flashcards
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Why the war of 1812 was called the second war for independence.
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Gained respect
Freedom of the seas
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The result of British Merchantalism
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Rise of free market capitalism
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Louisiana purchase
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Double US size
Vast natural resources
Mississippi river
Precedent for purchased land
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Monroe Doctrine
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US will not interfere with existing European colonies
Any further European interference would be considered unfriendly and dangerous
Us will not interfere with European affairs
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Spoils system
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Giving government jobs to friends and supporters
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Webster-Hayne Debate
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Webster claimed nullification would lead to disunion
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Missouri compromise
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Missouri admitted as slave state
Main admitted as a free state
No slaver above 36 30
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Great compromise at the constitutional convention 1787
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Roger Sherman
Equal representation in the senate
Revenue bills begin in the house of representatives
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Emerson’s concord hymn
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Lexington and concord - Shot heard around the world
10
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Saratoga
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Turning point in the American war for independence
11
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Yorktown
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is independence
12
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Importance of French in revolution
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Formed a blockade at yorktown
13
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What did the founding fathers fear most?
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Tyranny
14
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Father of the constitution
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James Madison
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Common Sense
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Thomas Paine
Argued for independence from Britain
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Hamilton’s financial plan favored the
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Bankers, creditors, and wealthy
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Transcendentalist writers
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Emerson
Thorough
“Self reliance and inner truth”
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Seneca falls
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Convention for the equal treatment of woman
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Leaves of grass
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Walt Witman’s collection of poetry
20
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Garrison favored
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“The immediate uncompensated emancipation of the slave”
21
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Amount of white southerners who owned slaves
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15%
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Uncle Tom’s cabin
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Stereotyped southerners as cruel slave holders
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Free-port debate
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Douglas says nothing and alienates everyone
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Result of Lincoln’s election
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South secedes
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Why did the south secede?
Lost voice in the Government
Thought they could do better financially
Already like different countries
Believed they had the choice
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Dred Scott decision
"A black man has no rights a white man should have to respect"
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Southern advantages in civil war
Needed a draw to win
New the land
Leadership
Hopes for foreign aid
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Why did confederates invade the north twice, even though they were fighting a defensive war?
Thought a northern win would win them the war
Getting choked by blockades
Desperate to end the war
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Gettysburg
Turning point in the war
Day 2 - Chamberlain
Day 3 - Picket's charge
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Long term result of Sherman's march to the sea
Lingering resentment for the north in the south
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Results of the Emancipation Proclomation
War to free the slaves
| Keep British out of the war
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Why was Antietam so important to Lincoln?
Allowed for the proposal of the emancipation proclomation
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Vicksburg
The father of waters again flows unvexed to the sea
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Underground Railroad / Fugitive slave law
Loose network of houses to move slaves up north / Illegal to assist a runaway
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Supporter of the Compromise 1820-1850
Henry Clay
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Compromise of 1850
California enters free
| Utah and New Mexico for popular sovereignty
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Frederick Douglas split because
Garrison started speaking about disunion from slave holders
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Erie Canal
Connected New York City
| Makes it the most important city
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Trail of tears
Cherokee forced off land
| Thousands die walking to a reservation
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Forty Ninth Parallel
Longest unfortified border in the world
| Border between United States and Canada
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John Marshall
Judge in major court cases
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"We are not enemies, bur friends"
First Inaugural Speech
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"With malice towards none, with Charity for all"
| "Fondly do we hope"
Second Inaugural Speech
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"Four score"
Gettysburg Speech
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"I cannot spare this man, he fights"
On Grant
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Marbury v Madison
Judicial review
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Cohens v Virginia
State Law reviewed by court
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Fletcher v Peck
Supreme court ruled state law unconstituional
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Civil war event order
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Ft Sumter
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg
Appomattox
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"War is all hell"
Sherman
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Roger B Taney
Judge in Dred Scott case
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Political Results of civil war
"Before plural, after singular"
Established federal supremacy
Abolition of slavery
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Economic Results of civil war
"Northern prosperity, southern ruin"
Expansion of factory system
National banking act '63
Morrill Tariff '61
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Homestead act '62
Gave free farm land to those who would cultivate it for 5 years
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Morrill Tariff '61
Protective tariff against foreign competition
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National banking act '63
Created a network of National Banks ensuring stable currency
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Morrill Land Grant Act '62
Donated land for educational prupose
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
| Alice Paul
Seneca falls
| Woman suffragist
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Spoils system and Garfield
Shot by an office seeker
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Credit Moblier
Created to overcharge the government
| Congress men were stockholders
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Scare crow
Farmer who had been taken advantage of by bankers and railroad workers
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Tin man
Factory workers who were more machine then man
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Appalachians
Coal deposits
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Laissez Faire
"Hands off" policy
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Capital
Tools required to expand a business
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Pennsylvania, Texas
Major oil depostits
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Corporation
Business where fractions are sold to raise capitals and limit liability
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Profit motive
Desire to improve one's material well being
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Nebraska, Kansas, Great Plains
Corn and Wheat belt
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Chicago
Hub of railroads
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Minnesota
Mesabi iron ore range
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Reservations
Policy to move Indians
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Cattle kingdom
Associated with long drives and range wars
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Green bay, Chicago, KC
Meat packing cities
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Minneapolis, Buffalo
Wheat mills and flour cities
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Pittsburgh, Birmingham
Steel cities
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Gospel of wealth
Use of religion to justify wealth of successful undustrialists
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Philanthropy examples
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Vanderbilt
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Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer
Helping the poor interfered with he laws of nature
Survival of the fittest in the economic marketplace
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3 views of big business
Robber barrons
Industrial statesmen
Your opinion
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Railroads
| Philanthropist
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Andrew Carnagie
Steel
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Eli Whitney
Interchangeable parts
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Thomas Nast
Cartoonist who called attention to corruption
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John D Rockefeller
Oil monopolist
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Which American named "The gilded age"?
Mark Twain
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Protective tariff
Greatly limits competition from imports
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Plain Indians (Nomads)
Comanche
Cheyenne
Sioux
Kiowa
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GAR
Grand army of the republic
| Republican former soldiers
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Republican party
Big business
Freedom
Wasps (White Anglo Saxon)
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Waving the bloody shirt
Campaign technique reminding civil war hatred
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Little big horn
Custard's last stand
Sitting Bull
Crazy horse
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Wounded knee
150 Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women, and children killed in 1864
Sitting bull killed
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Political machine
Political organization who controls the political party through graft and corruption
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Ghost dance
Religous ritual that promised the Native American's land be restored
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Great plains
Last frontier
| Treeless prairie with fertile soil
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Samuel Slater
First textile mill
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Charles Goodyear
Vulcanization of rubber
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Eli Whitney
Interchangeable parts
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Christopher Sholes
Typewriter
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John Deere
Stainless steel plow
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Thomas Edison
Power Plant
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Edwin Drake
First oil well
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George Pullman
Dining/Sleeping car in trains
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Henry Ford
Assembly line
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George Westinghouse
Air brake
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Alexander Graham Bell
Telehphone
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Elias Howe
Sewing machine
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Samuel Morse
Telegraph
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Henry Bessemer
Process to create low cost steel
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"A Century of Dishonor"
Helen Hunt Jackson
Emotional impact close to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Made congress pass a law to turn Indians into Americans
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Pendleton Act
First reform of the spoils system
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Immigration explosion
Population tripled during the gilded age
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Elimination of compromise
By stating abolishing slavery is against the 5th amendment, slavery couldn't be compromised on.
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Two self evident truths
All men created equal with unalienable rights
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Source of human rights
Our creator
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Purpose of government
To serve the people
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Government gets its rights from
the people
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What can the people do if a government becomes undesirable?
Abolish it
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Urbanization
The process of people moving to towns and cities as people begin working in central areas
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Shot heard around the world
Emerson
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Ballad of William sycamore
Benet
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"His words were oaks and acorns"
| Spoke at Lincoln memorial
Markham
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"Chicago, hog butcher of the nation"
Sandburg
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"I went to the woods to live deliberately"
Thoreau
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"Oh captain my captain"
Whitman
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Forces of industrialization
Urbanization
Industrialization
Immigration
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Amendment 1
Freedom of religion
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Amendment 2
Right to weapons
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Amendment 3
Quartering of soldiers
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Amendment 4
Protection against illegal searches
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Amendment 5
Right to remain silence, double jeopardy
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Amendment 6
Jury trial and lawyer
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Amendment 8
No cruel or usual punishment
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Amendment 9
You have rights not listed
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Amendment 10
Rights not in constitution left up to states
