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60 Cards in this Set
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texas _____________ from mexico
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seceded
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the right to vote- usuall referring to women.
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suffrage
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winning an election by a huge margin
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landslide
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having more votes than anyone else, but not a majority.
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plurality
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attempt to ruin an opponents reputation with insults and lies
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mudslinging
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andrew jacksons policy of firing goverment employees
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spoil system
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thousands of native americans died during the indian removal act
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trail of tears
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a belief that the u.s. goverment should not interfere with the economy.
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laizzez-faire
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congressman who wanted to go to war
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war hawks
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andrew jackson DID NOT have this and lost the election even though he had more votes
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majority
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the right to review whether laws are constitutional or not
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judicial review
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u.s. and england made this agreement for oregon country
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joint occupation
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u.s. did this with Texas
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annex
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the belief that the u.s. should be from the atlantic ocean to the pacific ocean
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manifest destiny
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people who came to california because of the gold rush were known as this
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fourty niners
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mexico did this because of the mexican american war
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cede
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a belief that a culture is superior to other cultures or countries
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nationalism
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act committed with the intent to destroy a racial, ethnic, or religious ground
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genocide
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to stop products from coming into a country
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embargo
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unfair treatment of a group because of a persons race, religion, or place of birth
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discrimination
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an unfair opinion not based no facts
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prejudice
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extreme shortage of food
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famine
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money for investment
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capital
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a system of transmitting messages uses a series of dots and dashes
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morse code
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removed seeds and helped a crop become the leading crop of the south
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cotton
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a person who supervises slaves
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overseer
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got its name because it clipped time off of trips almost in half
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clipper ship
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to put pressure on employers workers staged
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strikes
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workers of the same skill formed what to get better wages and working conditions
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trade unions
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invented the sewing machine
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eli howe
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what is the 3rd stage of industrialization
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use of machinery
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invented the steel tipped plow
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john deere
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made wheat the main economic activity in the midwest
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mechanical reaper
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this invention ensured that slavery would remain
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cotton gin
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the east and west were united by a network of
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railroad tracks
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the second highest group of immigrants between 1820-1860
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germans
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the north had almost 2 1/2 times as many of this
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railroad tracks
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how many miles of RR tracks did the u.s. have
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31,000
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this caused the irish immigration to the u.s.
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potato famine
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why did industry not develop in the south
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cotton was profitable
smaller population for goods no capital |
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what percentage of the southern population was enslaved
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32%
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about what percentate of the southern population was nonslavehilding whites
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about half
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what type of laws made it a crime to teach a slave how
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slave codes
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what group of southerns measured their wealth by the number of slaves they controlled
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plantation owners
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most enslaved people worked as
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flied hands
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people who were enslaved need an extended family because they
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could be sold
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who led a rebeillion against white and killed 55 people
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nat turner
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percent of slave owners who had 20 or more slaves
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only 4%
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what were domestic slaves
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slaves that worked in the home cleaning, etc
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slaves worst fear
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could be sold
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this horrible practice was outlawed in 1808
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slave trade
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slaves lived in one room shacks with up to how many people
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12
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when slaves married, they took what oath
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until death or separation do us part
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songs that expressed the struggles slaves encountered or gave secret codes about the underground rail road
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spiritual
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a shortage of this would hurt this south during the civil war
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railroads
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what happens when government print money that does not really exist
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prices of goods rise- inflation
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invented the first u.s. steam locomotive
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peter cooper
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network of safe house that assist runaway slaves
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underground railroad
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fifty four forty or fight was referring to what territory
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oregon country
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what started WWI
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assassination of arch duke ferdinand
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