History

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Elastic Clause

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Articke I, Secton 8, of the Constitution, which allows Congress to stretch its delegated powers to address issues that the nation's founders couold not have foreseen

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Impeach

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Bring charges against a prestident who may have committed a crime or violated the essential presidential duties

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Precedents set by George Washington

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1.) Only served two terms
2.) Choose a cabinet
3.) Saying so help me god at the end of oth of office

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Great Compromise

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Agreement worked out at the COnstitutional Convention establishing that a state's population would determine representaion in the lower house of the legislature, while each state would have equal representation in the upper house of the legislature

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Washington's Farewell Address

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1.) Public debt
2.) Dangerous foreign alliances
3.) Political divisons at home

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Louisiana Purchase

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Purchase of French land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains that doubled the size of the United States

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Lewis and Clark expedition

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Expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and WIlliam Clark that began in 1804 to explore the lands of the Louisiana Purchase

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Impressment

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British practie of forcing people, including American citizens, to serve in the country's army or navy; led to increasing tensions between Britain and the United States in the early 1800s

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Tippecanoe

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U.S. victory over an Indian confederation that wanted to stop white settlement in the Northwest Territory; increased tensions between Britian and the United States

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War Hawks

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Members of Congress who wanted to declare war against Britain after the Battle of Tippecanoe

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War of 1812

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1.) Armed the indians on the frontier
2.) impressment on our soldiers
3.) not reconize our neutarity

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Delegate Powers

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1.) Declare war
2.)Maintain armed forces
3.) Coin money

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Reserved Powers

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1.) Establish and maintain schools
2.) Set corporate laws
3.) Make marriage laws

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Concurrent Powers

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1.) Levy taxes
2.) Borrow money
3.) Establish courts

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Federalism

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u.s. system of government in which power is desttributed etween a central authority and the individual states

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Anti-Federalists

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People who were opposed to ratification of the Constitution

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Federalists

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People who supported ratification of the Constitution

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Fort Sumter, South Carolina

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Important federal outpast in the south and controlled entrance to charlestion harbor

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Major Robert Anderson

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Commander of fort Sumnter

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Cotton Diplomacy

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Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain's textile industry to peruade in British to support the confederacy in the Civil war

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Jefferson

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1.) small town
2.) common people running the country
3.) aligucluture

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Hamilton

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1.) Big town
2.) Elite people running the country
3.) Manufactring

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1st Battle of Bull Run also known as 1st Manassas

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First major battle in the civil war and show civil war could not be won easily

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Stonewall Jackson

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General of the COnfederate Army

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Robert E. Lee

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Took charge of confederate army and lincolns first choice

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George B. McClelland

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A leader of the union forces, took yorktown, a great organizer, heted Lincoln

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Antietam

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bloodist single day of the war, and in u.s. military history

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Iron Clade

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Marships heavily armed with iron

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Most important figure in western theater of war put in charge of union army

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Shiloh

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civil war battle in tennessee in which the union army gained greater control over the mississippi river valley

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What did lincoln say about vicksburg

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it's a key & we must have it in our pocket

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Pea Ridge, Arkansas

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Fought west of Mississippi; civil war battle in northwestrn arkansas in which the union army deafted pro-confederate missourians

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Matthew american Red cross Brady and photography of the Civil War

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Took pics of battles

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Clara Barton

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Angel of the battle field, insist on sanitation, boiling water 2 was untensils, start american red cross

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Gettysburg

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turning piont in the war, lasted 3 days, loss 50,000 soldiers

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Picketts Charge

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Failed confederate arrack led by General George Pickett at the battle of gettysburg

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Copperheads

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Northern Demorcrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the south in the civil war

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Habeas Corpus

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the consitutional protection aganist unlawful imprisonment

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Contraband

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Escaped or captured slaves taken in by the union army during the civil war ureFort wagner in south carolina

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Massachesetts 54Th

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African American civil war regiment that helped capture Fort wagner in south carolina

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William Tecumseh Sherman "Total War" and his march to the sea

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TW- type of war in which an amrmy destorys its opponents ability to fight by attacking civlilian eonomic & military targets

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Appomattox Courthouse- Wilmer McClain

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The town the surrender is going to take place

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Lincolns attitude about Soutn

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he is like a daddy who had a runaway child; Lincoln wants to make it as easy as possiable and he wanted to keep the country together

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Problems with the Articles of COnfederation

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No president, no ability to tax, No National Court system, States were stronger than National government

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James Madison

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"Father of the Constitution"

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Electoral College

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The way we elect our president of the U.S.

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Judicial Branch

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Interprets the laws as to whether they are constitutional or not

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Executive Branch

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Enforces or executes the laws

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Legislative Branch

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Proposes bills and passes them into laws

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Francis Scott Key

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Wrote "Stars Spangled Banner" while watching the bombardment of Ft. McHenry from a British ship

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Dolly Madison

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Saved many valuables from British Attack on Washington D.C., Wife of James Madison

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Eli Whitney

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Invented a machine or removing seeds from short-staple cotton

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Nat Turner

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Led the most violent slave revolt in U.S.

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John Deere

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Invented the steel plow

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Cyrus McCormick

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Invented a mechanical reaper

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Planters

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Large scale southern farmers who owned more than 20 slaves

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Folkales

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Oral stories that contained a moral that were used by slaves for encouragement

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Emancipation

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term that means freedom from slavery