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Election of 1800

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John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson

The election was decided by the House of Representatives because both candidates had 73 electoral votes

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Louisiana Purchase

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France sells the territory for $15 million. Thomas Jefferson made the purchase and a group of Federalists threatened to secede because of it.

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Were sent to explore the Louisiana territory. They followed the Missouri River on their way to the Pacific Ocean. Their mission inspired people to move west.

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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Impressment is the act of forcing Americans to serve in the British Navy. The Chesapeake ship was intercepted by a British vessel demanding to search for dissenters.the captain refused,so the British commander attacked.

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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War Hawks were people who pushed for war with Great Britain.

Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun were War Hawks.

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

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The Capitol, the library of Congress, and the presidents’s mansion were burned.
Fort McHenry was the fort at the entrance to Baltimore Harbor.
The battle of New Orleans took place after the Treaty of Ghent was signed.

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The Star Spangled Banner

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Was written by Francis Scott Key when the Fort McHenry bombardment was going on.

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Monroe Doctrine

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Stated that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open for colonization. The United States would regard any interference as a threat to its security.

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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Many Irish people immigrated to the U.S. due to the potato famine

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention.

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Industrial Revolution

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The change from an agrarian society to one based on industry. It began in New England

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Capitalism

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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 where they wish

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Supply and Demand

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Determines the prices in a free enterprise system

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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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The cotton gin is a machine that removes the seeds from cotton. This machine increased slavery.

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Urban vs Rural

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Urban=city

Rural=country

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Wilderness Road

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The route to Kentucky from the Atlantic Coast.

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Daniel Boone

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An American wilderness explorer who helped blaze the Wilderness Road

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Cumberland Gap

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A gap in the Appalachian Mountains that allowed for a path to be created.

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The Corrupt Bargain

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The speaker of the house,Henry Clay, meets with John Quincy Adams and agrees to use his influence to help Adams get the presidency

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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 candidate’s supporters. Andrew Jackson tried to kill the bank by withdrawing all federal funds. This caused the nation to experience a depression.

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Indian Removal Act

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Passed by Congress in order to relocate Native Americans

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Trail of Tears

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The relocation of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

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Sequoyah
Known for creating the written Cherokee language
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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency
He had to shortest presidency of just 32 days because he dies of pneumonia. He gave an inauguration speech that lasted over 2 hours.
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Manifest Destiny
Belief that the U.S. was destined by God to extend its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean
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Texas Rebellion
Texas wanted its independence. Travis' Texans beat Santa Anna's Mexican troops at the battle of the Alamo. Became the Lone Star Republic
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The Alamo – battle significance
The defenders of the Alamo bought the Texans some much needed time
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Davy Crockett
Backwoods man from Tennessee who volunteered to fight at the Alamo
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Oregon Trail
Trail used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest
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James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?
Manifest destiny
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Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession
Mexico believed the border was the Nueces River. U.S. believed it was the Rio Grande River. Mexican Cession ceded California and New Mexico and in return the US gave Mexico $15 million.
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John Sutter and the California Gold Rush
He was the first to discover a gold nugget in California. The California Gold Rush more than doubled the world's supply of gold. It didn't last very long, but had long-lasting effects on California's economy.
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Brigham Young
Led a Mormon migration to the Great Salt area of Utah so they could practice their religion safely
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820
The compromise was to have Missouri enter as a slave state and Maine enter as a free state
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John Brown
Violent abolitionist that believed that 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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Frederick Douglass
Most well known abolitionist who became a powerful speaker and edited a newspaper called "The North Star"
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
A 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 or imprisoned.
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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 was the first territory to shed blood over the issue of slavery
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Sumner-Brooks Incident
Senator Charles Sumner lashed out against those for slavery including Andrew P. Butler. Rep. Preston Brooks hit Sumner with a cane.
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Raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown led 18 men to attack a weapon storage facility. He hoped to start a rebellion against slave owners by arming slaves, but he was quickly defeated.
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Dred Scott v Sandford
Scott believed he should be free because he once lived in free soil. He lost the court case because Taney said he had no rights. This court case divided the nation even more.
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Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech
"A house divided against itself cannot stand"- Lincoln
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Election of 1860
Lincoln becomes the 16th president
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Causes of the Civil War
The issue over slavery, states rights, Lincoln's election, and the attack on Fort Sumter
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Fort Sumter
Confederate guns opened fire on Fort Sumter and this marked the beginning of the Civil War
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Ulysses S. Grant
General for the north or the union
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Robert E. Lee
General for the South or Confederate
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Stonewall Jackson
Considered 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, fought near the town of Manassas Junction and a river names Bull Run
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Anaconda Plan
Union war plan to defeat the south by dividing then in two
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54th Massachusetts
The most well known African American regiment
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The Battle of Gettysburg
Union forces are greatly outnumbered and are forced to retreat
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The Battle of Vicksburg
Another Union victory that is considered the turning point of the war
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Sherman’s March to the Sea
Burned Atlanta and then marched towards Savannah, Georgia
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Lee Surrendering to Grant
Surrendered in a town called Appomattox Court House. The terms of surrender were very forgiving.
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13th Amendment
Abolished slavery in 1865
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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
Ford's theater, John Wilkes Booth,Petersen House
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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction
10 percent plan(Lincoln) was forgiving on the South | Radical Republicans wanted a harsher readmission process
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Freedman’s Bureau
Agency that helped A-A's make to transition to freedom
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Segregation
Separation of the races
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Jim Crow Laws
Laws that require A-A's and whites to be separated in almost every public place
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Ku Klux Klan
Was the largest anti-African American territorist organization in the South

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