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45 Cards in this Set
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Constitution Boat
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Sailor was a freed American slave
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Oliver Hazard Perry
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Built green timberland boats on lake eerie to try and control great lakes
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Battle of Thames
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Redcoats had to flee fort malden after General Harrisons army defeated them.
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Thames MacDonaugh
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-Fought british fleet and won.
-Saved upper New York from British Conquest |
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Hartford Convention
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Dec. 15-Jan 5 1815
-demanded financial assistance to sompensate for lost trade -proposed amendment requiring 2/3 vote in congress before an embargo could be passed. |
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Tariff of 1816
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First important American Tariff. Created for safety on imports and exports.
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James Monroe
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Nominated for president in 1816 by republican party.
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Panic of 1819
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Brought deflation, depression, bankrupcies, bank failures, unemployment, soup kitchens, and debotrs prisons.
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McCulloch V.S. Maryland
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Attempt of Maryland to destroy a branch of the Bank of th U.S. by imposing taxes on its notes.
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Treaty of 1818
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Permitted America and Canada to share New found Fisheries.
Also allowed Britan and America to settle on some land in the US |
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Florida Purchase Treaty
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Spain gave America Florida, as well as claims to Oregon in exchange for Americas abandonment of murky Texas treaties.
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Corrupt Bargain
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Jackson said if Clay elected him as president he would make him secretary of state.
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Trail of Tears
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Result of Indian Removal Act....
Cherokees forced from homes, and sent to a newly formed Oaklahoma reservation. resulted in 4,000 deaths of Cherokees |
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Black Hawk
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Influential Native American chief. Encouraged indians to fight back against Jackson.
Hanged for impeachment. |
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Cumberland Road
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otherwise known as the National Road, improved travel for community, adn exchanging of goods.
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Cotton Gin
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Created by Eli Whitney
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The Steel Tip Plow
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Created by John Deere
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Mechanical Reaper
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Cyrus McCormick
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Sewing Machine
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Elias Howe created the sewing machine, but Issac Singer perfected his design in 1840
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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-Wrote self reliance
-influential writer |
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Kentucky Bluegrass
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Ideal for cows to eat
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Redevous System
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Traders ventured to the Rocky Mountains to trade with others, and Indians
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George Catlin
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-Painter, Student
-Frist American advocate on nature perservation (national policy) |
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Black Forties
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Irelands high imigrant rate made it their main export due to famine
(NINA) No Irish Need Apply |
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Interchangeable parts
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Interchangeable gun parts, created by Eli Whitney
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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Telegraph and morse code
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin, very influential, adn debatable book
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Nat Turner
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-Preecher on his plantation
-Freed all slaves on plantation by killing their master, and others. |
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John Brown
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-Participant in underground railroad
Attemptde to make Kansas a free state -convicted for treason |
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Fredrick Douglas
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-Wrote the North Star newspaper for African Americans
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Harriet Tubman
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-Main participant in uderground railroad, freed more than 300 slaves.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Publisher of the Liberator
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Trand Allegheny Reigon
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Nations Breadbasket
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Robert Fulton
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Creator of the Steamboat
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Eerie Canal
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Linked the Great Lakes
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Deism
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Relied on logic and science.
-believed their was an ultimate creator who amde the land, but then left |
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Unitarian
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Believed god existed in only one person
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2nd Great Awakening
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-2nd great revival in religion, methodists, and baptists most heavily effected
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Joseph SMith
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Creator of Mormonism, wrote the book of Mormon
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Brigham Young
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-2nd leader of mormonism, led them west
-Served as fist governor of Utah |
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Brook Farm
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Practiced transcendentalism
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Shakers
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-Longest lived community
-led by Mother Ann Lee -Did not allow marraige or sex -led to the demise of the community |
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Benjamin Silman
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Most influential scientist of the 19th century
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Hudson River School
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-American Art Movement
-Pictures of exploration and discovery |
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Transcendetalism
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-Believed people should live simply
-Truth is found in Nature -Peace and Justice (people should be socially responsible. |
