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Election of 1800

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John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was Chosen by House of Representatives

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Louisiana Purchase

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France sells territory for 15 million and it doubled the size of America

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Sent to explore the Louisiana Purchase and find its resources

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Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

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Impressment :forcing Americans to serve in British Navy.

Chesapeake: us tries to cut off trade with Britain

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War Hawks from the War of 1812

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Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun pushed for war with Great Britain

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War of 1812 –

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DC burned, Fort McHenry, Battle of New Orleans

Fort McHenry:Francis Scott Key wrote the star spangled banner

Happened after the peace treaty was signed

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The Star Spangled Banner

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Wrote during Fort McHenry and its by Francis Scott Key

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Monroe Doctrine

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It said that Europeans couldn’t colonize the Americas anymore

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Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

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A disease killed potatoes so Irish people can to America for food and work in the 1840s

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

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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 in industry

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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 free to buy, sell, and produce what they wand and can work where they wish

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Supply and Demand

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Raises and lowers prices based on demand

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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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Increased demand for the north, sped up production of cotton by slaves

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Urban vs Rural

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Urban: city
Rural: countryside

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Wilderness Road

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Aided early explanation of TN cause it made passing through mountains easier and opened door for more settlement

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Daniel Boone

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Blazed the wilderness road which made him a long hunter

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Cumberland Gap

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Path to make passing though Appalachians mountains easier

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The Corrupt Bargain

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Henry Clay, the speaker of the house, meets with Quincy Adams and agrees to use his influence to help Adams get the vote in House of Representatives

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Andrew Jackson

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spoils system: practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidate’s supporters

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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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Relocation and movement of Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma

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Sequoyah
Known for creating the Cherokee Language
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William Henry Harrison’s Presidency
Gave inauguration speech that lasted over two hours
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Manifest Destiny
Belief United States was destined by God to extend its boundaries to the pacific... From sea to shining sea
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Texas Rebellion
Battle of San Jacinto- surprise attack that killed over 600 Mexican soldiers and captured 700 Lone star republic was formed after Santa Anna surrenders at San Jacinto
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The Alamo
Bought Texans some much needed time
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Davy Crockett
Backwoodsman from Tennessee who volunteered to fight at the Alamo
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Oregon Trail
Used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest
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James K Polk
Fulfilled Manifest Destiny
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Mexican War
Border Dispute: US believes Texas border is rio grande River and Mexico believes the border is the Nueces River Mexican Cession:ceded Cali and and New Mexico and US got $15 million
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John Sutter
Obtained land in California and first to find gold nugget. This started the California Gold Rush which doubled the worlds gold
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Brigham Young
Led the migration to Utah to the great Salt Lakes of Utah
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Helped preserve the balance between north and south
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John Brown
Violent abolitionist that believed God had chosen him to end slavery
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Harriet Tubman
Most famous conducted for the Underground Railroad
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Underground Railroad
Network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people
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Frederick Douglass
Most well known African-American abolitionist | Edited antislavery newspaper North Star
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Explored the issue of slavery
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Fugitive Slave Act
Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves
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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 became the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery
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Sumner-Brooks Incident
Senator Charles Sumner lashed out out against those for slavery, including Andrew P. Butler
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Raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown led 18 men on a raid to attack a weapon storage facility in attempt to start a rebellion
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Dred Scott v Sandford
Divided nation even more
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Lincoln-Douglass debates
Main topic of slavery, Lincoln said, "I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. A house divided against itself cannot stand "
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Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln with more population north outvoted the south.
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Causes of the Civil War
Lincoln's Presidency, confederate states of America, Fort Sumter
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Fort Sumter
Marked the beginning of the civil war when confederate guns opened fire
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Ulysses S. Grant
Leader of north troops and 18th president
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Robert E. Lee
Lead commander of CSA
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Stonewall Jackson
Coincide red one of the most gifted tactical commanders in US History back to first battle
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First Battle of Bull Run
30,000 Union troops attacked confederate force. Confederate forces became inspired reinforcements
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Anaconda Plan
Union war plan to defeat the south by dividing them in two
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54th Massachusetts
African American regiment most successful
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The Battle of Gettysburg
Union forces are greatly outnumbered and after two days of unsuccessful assaults, Lee plans an attack that he hoped would create panic
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The Battle of Vicksburg
Union win caused turning point of the Civil War
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Sherman’s March to the Sea
General William Tecumseh Sherman led western army towards Atlanta and burned it then continued towards Savannah Georgia
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Lee Surrendering to Grant
April 9, 1865 in Appomattox Court House. Terms of surrender were very forgiving towards southern troops
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13th Amendment
Abolished slavery
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14th Amendment
Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the US
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15th Amendment
Gave African Americans the right to vote
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Lincoln Assassination
Ford's Theater John Wilks booth Peterson House
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10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction
10 Percent Plan: forgiveness on the south RR: wanted a harsher readmission process
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Freedman’s Bureau
Agency that helped African Americans make the transition to freedom
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Segregation
Separation of the races
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Jim Crow Laws
Required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place and the court said segregation was legal as long as it was separate and equal
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Ku Klux Klan
Largest anti-African American terrorist organization in the south

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