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35 Cards in this Set
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Industrial growth after the War of 1812- the US began to manufacture goods with the aid of __________________ and _______________. New England rather than South, emerged as a _______________ _____________.
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factories; machines; manufacturing center
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He developed the COtton Gin, a machine that could separate cotton from its seeds. This invention made cotton a profitable crop of great value to the Southern economy. It also reinforced the importance of slavery in the SOuth. When?
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1798; Eli Whitney
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Who developed a manufacturing system which uses standardized parts which are all identical and thus, _____________. When?
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1799-1800; Eli Whitney; interchangeable
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When _________ was elected president from humble beginnings, people though he could make the American Dream come true. He was the first ________ to be elected president. His election was the revolution of the "_____________"
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Andrew Jackson; non-aristocrat; Common Man
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Jackson's presidency was called the _________________________. He felt that common people should _____ gov't- a democracy based on self-sufficient middle class with ideas formed by liberal education and a free press. All _________ could now vote, and the increased voting rights allowed him to be elected.
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Age of the COmmon Man; run; white men
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"To the victor go to the spoils" - the winner of the election may do whatever they want with the staff. _______ made more staff changes than any previous president, firing many people and replacing them with his own.
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Spoils System-Jackson
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During the winter of ________, troops under General __________ evicted them from their homes in _________ and moved them to ______________. Many died on the trail; the journey became known as ____________.
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Cherokee Indian removal; 1838-1839; Winfield Scott; GA; OK Indian Country; "Trail of Tears"
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The _______ strongly opposed protective tariffs like the ____________ & _________, and protested by asserting that enforcement of the tariffs could be prohibited by individual states, and by refusing to collect tariff duties.
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South opposes protective tariffs (Tariff of Abominations); Tariffs of 1828 and 1832
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When faced with the protective Tariff of 1828, _____________ presented a theory that federal tariffs could be declared null and void by ________________ and that they could _________ to enforce them.
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Nullification Crisis; SC Exposition and Protest; John C. Calhoun; individual states; refuse
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This decision upheld the power of COngress to charter a bank as a gov't agency and denied the state the power to tax that agency. When?
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Supreme Court; McCulloch v. Maryland; 1819
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Phrase commonly used in the 1840's and 50's. It expressed the inevitableness of continued expansion of the US to the Pacific.
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Manifest Destiny
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President known for promoting Manifest Destiny, annexed Texas, fought the Mexican American War gaining the entire SW, threatened war w/ Britain, which gained us Oregon territory.
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James K. Polk
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Causes of this: Annexation of Texas, diplomatic ineptness of US/Mexican relations in the 1840's and particularly the provocation of US troops on the Rio Grande.
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Mexican War
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Results of this: US captured Mexico City, Zachary Taylor was elected president, Santa Ana abdicated, and Mexico ceded NM, CO, UT, AR, NV, & CA to US.
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Mexican War
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SOme of Mexico's territory was added to US after the Mexican War: NM, CO, UT, AR, NV, & CA. Treaty of ___________.
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Mexican Cession: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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a treaty that would provide for the purchase of the territory through which the stage lines ran along which the US hoped to also eventually build a southern continental ______________. It makes up the southern parts of AZ and NM. When?
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1853; Gadsden Purchase; railroad
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he built the reaping machine in ________, and it makes farming more efficient. Part of the industrial revo., it allowed farmers to subtantially increase the acreage that could be worked by a single family, and also made corporate farming possible.
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Cyrus McCormick; mechanical reaper; 1831
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A famous inventor, ________ designed and built American's 1st steamboat, the _______ in _________. He also built the ______, the 1st practical submarine.
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Robert FUlton, steamships; Clermont 1807; Nautilus
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he developed a working telegraph that improved communications.
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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The effort to do away with slavery. It had its roots in the North in the 1700s. Became major issue in the 1830s and dominated politics after 1840. Congress became a battleground b/w ____ and ______ forces from the 1830s to the Civil War.
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Abolitionism; Pro and Anti Slavery
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Different parts of the ocuntry developing unique and separate cultures as North, South, and West which can lead to _______.
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Sectionalism; conflict
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A militant abolitionist, he became editor of the Boston publication __________, in ______.
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William Lloyd Garrison; The liberator; 1831
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Slave uprising. A group of 60 slaves led by __________, who believed that he was a divine inst. sent to free his people, killed almost ______ in __________. When?
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Nat Turner's Insurrection; 60 poeple; SOuth Hampton VA; 1831
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A self-educated slave who escaped in 1838, He became the best-known abolitionist speaker. He edited ant-slavery weekly _________.
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frederick Douglass; 1817-1895; North Star
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Called for the admission of CA as a free state, organizing UT and NM w/out restrictions on slavery, adjustment of the TX/NM border, abolition of slave trade in District of Columbia, and tougher fugitive laws. Its passage was hailed as a solution to the threat of national division.
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Compromise of 1850: provisions, impact
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laws the provided for return of escaped slaves to their owners
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Fugitive Slave Laws
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A secret shifting network that aided slaves escaping to the North and Canada, mainly after _____.
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Underground Railroad; 1840
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A former slave, she was one of the shrewdest conductors of the Underground Railroad, leading 300 slaves to freedom.
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Harriet Tubman (1821-1913)
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She wrote the abolitionist book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. It helped to crystallize the rift b/w the North & South. It has been caledd the greatest American propaganda novel ever written, and helped to bring about the _____________.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe; Civil War
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This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and established a doctrine of congressional nonintervention in the territories. Popular sovereignty (vote of the people) would determine whether KS and Nebraska would be slave of free. When?
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Kansas- Nebraska Act 1854
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A coalition of the Free Soil Party, the Know-Nothing and renegade Whigs merged in ____ to form the __________ Party, a liberal, anti-slavery party.
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Birth of the Republican Party; 1854
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The doctrine that stated that the people of a territory had the right to decide their own laws by voting.
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Popular Sovereignty
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Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, pro-slavery forces from Missouri, known as the __________ __________, crossed the border into Kansas and terrorized and murdered antislavery settlers. Antislavery sympathizers from Kansas carried out reprisal attacks.
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"Bleeding Kansas"; Border Ruffians
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In _____, the militant abolitionist ________ ________ seized the US arsenal at _______ _________. He planned to end slavery by massacring slave owners and freeing their slaves. He was captured and executed.
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1859; John Brown; Harper's Ferry
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Missouri slave who was sued for his freedom; courts ruled he was property and was not free regardless of where he was (free state or slave) tremendous blow to aboltionist movement.
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Dred Scott Decision
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