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66 Cards in this Set
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-Texas mission in San Antonio captured by Mexico in 1836. m405
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Alamo (29 N 98 W), 402
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-Texas city and site of the Alamo. 29 N 99 W m405
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San Antonio 402
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-in 1836, Texans defended a church called the Alamo against the Mexican army; all but five Texans were killed.
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Battle of the Alamo 403
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-the nickname of the republic of Texas, given in 1836.
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Lone Star Republic 405
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-the belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
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Manifest desting 407
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-the 1846 rebellion by Americans against Mexican rule in California.
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Bear Flag Revolt 409
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-the 1848 treaty ending the U.S. war with Mexico; Mexico ceded nearly one-half of its land to the United States.
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treaty of guadalupe hidalgo 410
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-a vast region given up by Mexico after the War with Mexico; it included the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.
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Mexican Cession 411
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-a person who went to California to find gold, starting in 1849.
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forty-niner 412
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-in 1849, large numbers of people moved to California because gold had been discovered there.
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California gold rush 413
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-major port city in northern California. m592
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San Francisco (38 N 123 W) 416
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-a person who leaves the country.
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Emigrant 423
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-a person who settles in a new country.
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immigrant 423
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-the cheapest deck or place on a ship.
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steerage 423
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-a factor that pushes people out of their native land and pulls them toward a new place.
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push-pull factor 424
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-island country west of England whose mid 1800s famine caused more than one million people to emigrate to America.
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Ireland 426
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-a severe food shortage.
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famine 426
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-a negative opinion that is not based on facts.
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prejudice 427
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-a native-born American who wanted to eliminate foreign influence.
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nativist 428
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-a European artistic movement that stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion.
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romanticism 429
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-peacefully refusing to obey laws one considers unjust.
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civil disobedience 431
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-a 19th century philosophy that taught the spirtual world is more important than the physical world and that people can find the truth within themselves through feeling and intuition.
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transcendentalism 431
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-a meeting designed to reawaken religious faith.
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revival 433
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-the renewel of religous faith in the 1790's and the early 1800's.
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second great awakening 433
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-a group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions.
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labor union 434
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-to stop work to demand better working conditions.
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strike 434
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-a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol.
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temperance movement 434
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-the movement to end slavery.
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abolition 440
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-a federal arsenal in Virginia that was captured in 1859 during a slave revolt.
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Harpers Ferry 469
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-a series of escape routes used by slaves escaping the south.
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underground railroad 442
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-a women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
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seneca falls convention 444
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-a statement of beliefs.
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platform 471
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-an 1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained form the War with Mexico.
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wilmot proviso 459
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-a political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.
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Free Soil Party 459
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-the confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union.
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Confederate States of America 473
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-a series of Congressional laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
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compromise of 1850 461
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-an 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves.
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Fugitive Slave Act 462
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-to withdraw
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secede 473
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-a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 , which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral.
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uncles tom's cable 462
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-a goverment in which the people rule; a system in which the residents decide the issue.
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popular sovereignty 463
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-a compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession.
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Crittenden Plan 475
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-an 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in territories where slavery was illegal; the Court ruled against Scott.
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Dred scott v. sandford 464
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-an 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
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Kansas- Nebraska act 464
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-as Charles Town, largest Southern colonial city; South Carolina site of first Civil War shots, at offshore Fort Sumter. m483
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Charleston (33 N 80 W) 481
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-the political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories.
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republican party 466
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-fort in Charleston, South Carolina, harbor where 1861 attack by Confederates began the Civil War. m483
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Fort Sumter (33 N 80 W), 481
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-a federal fort located in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
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Fort Sumter 481
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-nation formed by 11 Southern states during the Civil War. Capital: Richmond, Virginia. 473 and 482, m483
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Confederate States of America 482
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-Virginia capital that was also the capital of the Confederacy. m483
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Richmond (38 N 77 W) 482
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-a slave state that bordered states in which slavery was illegal.
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Border state 482
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-a strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War.
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Anaconda plan 484
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-cotton was called king because cotton was important to the world market, and the South grew most of the cotton for Europe's mills.
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King cotton 484
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-stream 30 miles southwest of Washington D.C.; site of first land battle of Civil War.
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Bull Run 485
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-an 1861 battle of the Civil War in which the South shocked the North with a victory.
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First battle of bull run 485 *
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-when armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into or out of an area.
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Blockade 484
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-conditions and practices that promote health.
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hygiene 490
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-a warship covered with iron.
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ironclad 491
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-a bullet with a hollow base.
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minie ball 491
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-a gun with a grooved barrel that causes a bullet to spin through the air.
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rifle 491
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-an 1862 battle in which the Union forced the Confederacy to retreat in some of the fiercest fighting in the Civil War.
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Battle of Shiloh 494
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-historic river seperating Virginia from Maryland and Washington D.C.
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Potomac River 496
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-soldiers on horseback.
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Cavalry 496
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-an 1862 Civil War battle in which the Confederacy forced the Union to retreat before it could capture the Southern capitol of Richmond.
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seven day's battles 496
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-Maryland creek, site of bloodiest day's fighting in the Civil War.
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antietam 497 *
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-a Civil War battle in 1862 in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded.
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Battle of Antietam 497
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-the right to vote.
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suffrage 262,444
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