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Cash Crop

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A crop grown for money rather than use

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5 Civilized Tribes

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Cherokee
They took on the white man’s ways
They were ejected unfairly from their lands by Andrew Jackson

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How many trail of tears were there?

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2

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Intolerable Acts

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a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.

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Declaration of Independence

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American breakaway from Britain, held no legal value, (purely symbolic)

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Louisiana Purchase

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Thomas Jefferson
United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million

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Stamp Act

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The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.

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Battle of Saratoga

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turning point in the Revolutionary War

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Battle of Lexington/Concord

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American victory

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Proclamation Line of 1763

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a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide

So that Americans couldn’t produce furs

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Propoganda

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Common Sense
Uncle Johns Cabin

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1st Amendment

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Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise.

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2nd Amendment

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Right to bear arms

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5th Amendment

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no self incrimination

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13th Amendment

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no more slavery

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14th Amendment

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It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people

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15th Amendment

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granted African American men the right to vote.

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Frederick Douglass

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Radical Abolitionist
Escaped Slave

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Thaddeus Stevens

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Radical Abolitionists

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Northwest Ordinance

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Land surveying in the midwest

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Articles of Confederation

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first try at our government
major fail

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Shay’s Rebellion

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uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions.
farmers

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Whiskey Rebellion

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a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington.

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Virginia-Kentucky Resolution

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response to alien-sedition acts

by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson

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Nationalism
the belief that your country is superior, without question or doubt
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Sectionalism
caring more about you region than your country
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Impeachment
process of bringing charges against a government official for wrongdoing
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National Road
road for western expansion manifest destiny
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2nd Great Awakening
started social reforms labor, women's suffrage, educational reform
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Compromise of 1850/Gold Rush
five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States
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Upton Sinclair/Jungle
muckraker wrote about social bad things
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laissez faire government
minimal government interference in the economy
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Wade Davis Bill
50% of all voters in the Confederate states, as opposed to Lincoln's proposed 10%, must pledge allegiance to the Union before reunification.
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Black Codes
restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
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Social Darwinism
capitalism, if you aren't smart you won't survive
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George Washington
good at recognizing talent
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Samuel Adams
a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, a signer of the Declaration of Independence
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Eli Whitney
Invented Cotton Gin
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Cotton Gin
Machine that made short staple cotton profitable
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Federalist Papers
a collection of essays written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton in 1788. The essays urged the ratification of the United States Constitution
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Anti- Federalists
People who opposed ratification of the US Constitution
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10% Plan
after the civil war, lincoln proposed that if confederate states had 10% of their population against slavery, then they could rejoin the union, however lincoln was killed soon after this and only arkansas, tennessee and louisiana
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Land Ordinance of 1785
It laid out the process by which lands west of the Appalachian Mountains were to be surveyed and sold
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Manifest Destiny
American Nationalism: americans pushed west destroying anything in their path because "God gave them approval" to do so
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Embargo Act
closed U.S. ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain
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Sherman's March to the Sea
First example of total war Sherman made confederate soldiers come home which ultimately led to their inability to wage war
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Total War
first happened in the civil war when war is fought regardless of if it will harm civilians or destroy infrastructure Sherman's March to The Sea
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Muckrakers
Investigative reporters they find all the "dirt" on people and things gossip column
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Social Darwinism
Capitalism If you are not smart, you might not make it
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Ellis and Angel Island
First Immigration ports for immigrant angel: mostly asian ellis: mostly european
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"Common Man"
uneducated masses largely irish and illiterate
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Samuel Slater
"Father of the American Industrial Revolution"
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American Systems
an economic plan proposed by Senator Henry Clay that called for high tariffs to support internal improvements such as road-building
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Missouri Compromise of 1820
admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time
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Annexation of Texas
a provision permitting Texas to retain title to its public lands
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Sharecropping
Former slaves could live on farms as long as they gave half of their crops to their landlord as rent
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Tenant Farming
when former slaves couldn't pay for rent, they would have to pay off their debt for generations (this occurred until the 1930s)
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National Bank
Alexander Hamilton's grand experiment in central banking began in 1791 to assist a post-Revolutionary War economy and ended 20 years later
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Mexican War
invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848
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Oregon Issue
19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations in the region.
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Oregon Trail
path west for people very difficult and dangerous

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