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35 Cards in this Set
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Locations of factories in America |
-Providence, Rhode Island |
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The Cotton Gin |
-Eli Whitney maker -Separates seeds from cotton |
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Textile Mills |
-Young women -Mills provided cultural events -To appeal to families, strict curfew, prohibition of alcohol & required church attendance |
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Definiton of Manifest Destiny |
-Gods will - In the mid 1800's Americans migrating to the west because they felt it was god's will to stretch the US from the sea to shining sea. |
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Who and What are Empressarios? |
Stephen F. Austin -Father of Texas - Was a person who had been granted the right to settle on land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for new settlers. |
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Santa Anna |
-Wanted a strong central government -Saw Texans as a threat -Tried to change constitution- Outlawed Slavery but allowed peonage system -Squashed rebellion with Zacatecas -Imprisoned Stephen F Austin for 3 months. |
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Sam Houston |
-The governor of Tennesse -Adopted and married into the Cherokee Nation -Flees to texas and becomes the leader of the Revolution |
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Battle of San Jacinto |
-Last battle -Total surprise to Santa Anna -Houston has 2 horses shot from him -Santa anna tries to hide |
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The term annexation |
- the action of annexing something, especially territory. |
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The battle of the Alamo |
-Red flag "no Quater" - William b. Travis- sketchy past, 26 years old, leader of the Anahuac Rebellion - David Crockett- opposed Jackson's trail of tears - Jim bowie- Became famous in a sand bar fight, Was a land speculator in TX, Died at the alamo |
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The outcome of Goliad |
- Battle of Coleto Creek - Fannin had to fight in the open - Felt the need to surrender to not leave wounded |
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The cause and effect of the Mexican War |
Causes: Texas Annexation- What is the border of Texas? - Nueces or the Rio Grande -Tried to send Sidell to negotiate for $30mill which included disputed area, California & New Mexico -Tried to start a rebellion in CA Effect: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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Know the impact of the Telegraph, Steel Plow, & Railroad |
-Samuel Morse- Telegraph -John Deere invented benefited farmers because it allowed them to cut furrows in thick sticky Midwest soil. |
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Turning points of the Civil War |
July 4th, 1863 - Vicksburg, Ms - Grants victory - Siege for 6 weeks - Cut off LA, TX, and AR from the confederacy |
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John Wilkes Booth |
Assasinated Lincoln |
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Popular Sovereignty |
Kansas- Nebraska act |
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Abolition |
- The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin - About the horrors of slavery - “So you’re the little lady who started this great war”- Lincoln - Helped the underground railroad |
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Civil disobedience |
- is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
-Published the liberator -Founded New England Anti Slavery Society |
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Antietam |
- Bloodiest day in American history - McClellan gets Lee's plans but failed to act - McClellan refused again to demolish Lee - Lincoln gets mad and looks for other leaders |
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McClellan |
-A wonderful trainer but very cautious |
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Compromise of the 1850 |
- Fugitive Slave Act - California free |
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The Grimke Sisters |
Angelina & sarah -Quakers -Originally slave owners -Wrote American Slavery as it is: used primary sources -Testimony of a thousand witnesses |
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Frederick Douglass |
- Escaped on the underground railroad - Used sailor papers - Wrote autobiography - Became a profound lecturer |
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Robert E. Lee |
West point Grad -Served in Mexican War; Harper's ferry - Originally asked to be the union commander |
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Underground Railroad |
- A secret passage to the North - Used Quackers - Harriet Tubman “I should fight for… liberty as long as my strength lasted” |
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Grant |
- Shiloh - Fights alongside Sherman - Fort Donelson - Control of Tennessee, Rivers & railroad hub - Two of the most decisive victories of the North |
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Causes of the Civil War |
- Missouri Compromise >Missouri = Slave >Maine = Free - Mexican war and the california gold rush with the annexation, of texas slavery continues in america. |
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Dred Scott v. Sandforf |
- Slave master dies in a free territory so then he is freed - No, Taney declared " Negroes could not be citizens of the US" |
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Leaders of the Civil War |
- McClellan - Robert E. lee - William Tecumseh Sherman - Abraham Lincoln - Winfield Scott - Stonewall jackson - Ulysses S. Grant |
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Sherman's March to the sea |
- Sherman marches to Atlanta, burning down towns in the mean time and liberating slaves. - Saves Savannah, Ga because too pretty - Eventually marches North to Columbia, S.C and does even more damage |
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Be able to list women present at the SenecaFalls Convention |
Susan B Anthony (“You should have been born a man”) - Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Sojourner Truth - Advocated for women's rights - Declaration of sentiments |
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The parts of the Anaconda Plan |
1. Surround the South by land and sea to cut off its trade. 2. Divide the confederacy into sections so that one rebel rebel region could not help another. 3. Capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy and destroy the rebel government. |
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Bleeding Kansas |
- Sack of lawrence ( an abolitionist town) which destroyed newspapers, burned buisnesses - John Brown said "Fight fire with fire" |
