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16 Cards in this Set
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Formal withdrawing of state from the union
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secession
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a series of congressional mesuers intended to settle major disagreements b/w free and slave states
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compromise of 1850
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The forcible seizure of men military service
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impressment
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Policy granting 50 acres of land to settlers and each family member who accompanied him
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headright system
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A pre-Civil war set of measures designed to unify the nation and strengthen its economy
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American system
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Change in social and economic organization that resulted from the replacement of hand tools with machines
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industrial revolution
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The idea expressed by Stephan Douglas in 1858, that any territory could exclude slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it
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Freeport doctrine
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amendment proposing that none of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery
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willmot proviso
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A talented drill master that transformed the Continental Army by teaching how to execute field maneuvers fire and reload
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Von Steuben
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John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton were
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federalists
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Andrew Jackson believed that ______ symbolized Eastern wealth and threatened American democracy
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Bank of U.S.
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Jackson's vice pres. _______ publicly disagreed with him on the subject of the state's rights
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calhoun
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Dorothea Dix devoted ehr life to trying to reform the treatment of the ________
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imprisoned/Crazy
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The mormon migration to Uta was lead by
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Brigham Young
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Aided the American cause by joining George Washington's staff leading a command in Virginia
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Lafayette
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3 important cash crops in southern colonies
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indigo rice tobacco
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