9 Wks Exam History

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Manifest Destiny

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God gave earth to Americans

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Fifty four Forty or Fight

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All of Oregon for USA to 54 40

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Mexican terms of surrender, gave US 500,000 sq miles

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squatters

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people who settled in land they didn't own

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conscience whigs

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northern,opposed slavery

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cotton whigs

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northern,needed southern cotton

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49ers

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people looking for gold

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gadsden's purchase

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purchase of botton of arizona and new mexico

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crittenden's compromise

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unsucesful attempt to resolve southern seccesion

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wilmot proviso

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attempt to illegalize slavery in territories gained from Mexico

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Free-Soil Party

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western,opposed slavery

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Compromise of 1850

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a series of bills aimed at resolving the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican-American Wa

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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an abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery

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Harriet Tubman

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Underground Railroad

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Frederick Douglas

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anti-slavery, black politician

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John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

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an attempt by abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry

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Jefferson Davis

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Though continously beating north in skirmishes would make south win civil war

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Andersonville Prison

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largest Confederate military prison during the American Civil War.In all, 12,913 of the approximately 45,000 Union prisoners died there because of starvation, malnutrition, and disease.

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Gettysburg

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End of civil war

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Southern advantage in war

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Military colleges

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anaconda plan

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union's plan against south

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emancipation proclamation

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declared all blacks free

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13,14,15 amendment

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13th Abolition of slavery, except as punishment for a crime. January 31, 1865 December 6, 1865 Full text
14th Citizenship, state due process, applies Bill of Rights to the states, revision to apportionment of Representatives, Denies public office to anyone who has rebelled against the United States June 13, 1866 July 9, 1868[3] Full text
15th Suffrage no longer restricted by race

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Reconstruction Plan

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abolishing slavery, destroying all traces of the Confederacy, and "reconstructing" both the South, and (with three new amendments) the U.S. Constitution itself.

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Radical Reconstruction Plan

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punish south

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Tenure of Office Act

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denied the President of the United States the power to remove from office anyone who had been appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the United States Senate unless the Senate also approved the removal.

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scalawags

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southern whites who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War.

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carpetbaggers

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term southerners gave to northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era

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comstock lode

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the first major U.S. deposit of silver ore, discovered under what is now Virginia City, Nevada on the eastern slope of Mt. Davidson, a peak in the Virginia range

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chisholm trail

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a dirt trail used in the later 19th century to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads

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homestead act

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a United States Federal law that gave an applicant freehold title to 160 acres (one quarter section or about 65 hectares)-640 acres (one section or about 260 hectares) of undeveloped land outside of the original 13 colonies

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dawes act

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act on February 8, 1887 regarding the distribution of land to Native Americans in Oklahoma

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pikes peak or bust

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the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 and lasted until roughly the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861.

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dime novels

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agenda pushing novels

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battle at wounded knee

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last major armed conflict between the Oglala Lakota and the United States. It was described as a massacre by General Nelson A. Miles in a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs

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laissez-faire

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term used to describe a policy of allowing events to take their own course with minimal intervention

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central pacific railroad

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California-to-Utah portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America

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union pacific railroad

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major railroad company

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economies of scale

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the cost advantages that a business obtains due to expansion

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horizontal integration

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merging

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vertical integration

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leveling

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trust company

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a corporation, especially a commercial bank, organized to perform the fiduciary functions of trusts and agencies. It is normally owned by one of three types of structures: an independent partnership, a bank, or a law firm, each of which specializes in being a trustee of various kinds of trusts and in managing estates.

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holding company

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a company that owns other companies' outstanding stock. It usually refers to a company which does not produce goods or services itself, rather its only purpose is owning shares of other companies.