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28 Cards in this Set
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Alexis DeToqueville |
French lawyer. sent to the US in 1813 to study the United States prison system |
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Democracy in America |
a book published by Alexis DeToqueville in 1834, becomes Bible for what America was, became 1st glimpse for Europe into what America was |
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Economic Activities in Early America |
American colonies quickly become self sufficient. Early US economy became a major world power |
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colony |
an area that exists for the good of the mother country |
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Mercantilism |
economic system based on the idea that a country needs to export more goods than they have to have imported |
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"Revolution in Transportation" |
the time that the steam engine, clipper ship, and railroad were invented |
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Telegraph |
first instant long distance communication |
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Cotton gin |
a machine used to clean cotton, 1 person in 1 day could clean as much cotton as 1000 used to clean in one day, invented by Eli Whitney |
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Steel plow |
invented by John Deere in 1837 |
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Mechanical reaper |
Invented by Cyrus McCormick. It did for wheat what the cotton gin did for cotton |
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"Cotton is King" |
southern slogan, was very true |
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Production process of cotton |
1. planted and grown 2. picked and cleaned 3. sent to the North 4. turned into a finished product |
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"Yankee Merchants" |
what Southerners called the northerners |
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"Plantation Life" |
the perception that the north had of the south |
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2 major political parties pre- 1850 |
Whigs, Democrats, equal representation of both in the N. and the S. until the compromise of 1850 |
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The Abolition movement |
began in 1820s, called for the end of slavery NOW |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
editor of a newspaper called The Liberator, wrote of the hypocracy of slavery |
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Manifest Destiny |
phrase coined by John O' Sullivan, it was US destiny to expand to the Pacific Ocean |
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Treaty of Paris |
document that ended the Revolutionary War |
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Louisiana Purchase |
bought from Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803, negotiated by Thomas Jefferson, doubled the size of the country |
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Stephen F. Austin |
governor of Texas |
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo |
ends the war between US and Mexico, gives the US CA, AZ, NM, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada |
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Oregon Territory |
purchased from England in 1848, gave the US Washington state, Oregon, and Idaho |
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Gadsden Purchase |
Purchased from Mexico after the war, "filled in" the rest of the west |
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Florida |
Purchased from Spain in the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1819 |
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Balance of Power |
There had to be the same number of free states as there were slave states |
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Missouri Compromise |
1820, Maine applied for statehood, which would upset the balance of power, so Missouri came in as a "slave state" so as to not upset the balance of power |
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36'30 latitude line |
the Missouri Compromise line, all states north will be free and all tates south will be slave states |
