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29 Cards in this Set
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When was the U.S consistuation started? |
1787 |
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When was the cotton gin invented? |
1793 |
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What two events happened 1803? |
Louisiana Purchase and slave revolt in Haiti |
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When did Lewis and Clark explore the route west? |
1804 |
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What happened in 1820? |
The Missouri compromise |
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When was the Nat Turner rebellion? |
1828 |
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What did David Walker's pamphlet encourage and when was it written? |
Encouraged rebellion and was written in 1829 |
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What happened in 1830? |
Indian Removal act |
Moved from land |
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When did the Cherokee go to supreme court over land? |
1831 |
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When did the Creeks sign the treaty with the us government over land? |
1831 |
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When was the second Seminole war? |
1835 to 1842 |
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When was the trail of tears? |
1838 |
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What states were added in 1789 to 1838? |
Vermont, Kentucky, Tennesse, Ohio, Louisianna, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Maine, Missouri, Michigan and Arkansas |
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Who was the first president of America? |
George Washington, 1789 to 1797 |
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When was Thomas Jefferson president? |
1801 to 1809 |
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Who was president of America in 1829 to 1837? |
Andrew Jackson |
Really really bad one |
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By 1838 what had the whites done? |
Expanded throughout the east, and wanted more land from the Indians |
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What had happened to the Indians by 1838? |
Expelled from the east where they were previously allowed to live. |
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By 1838 black Americans were treated... |
Exploited for slavery in the south and were classed as essential for plantation life in the south |
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What does Abolition mean? |
Ending slavery |
Good thing |
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What was the cotton gin? |
Machinery which increased speed and quality of cotton production, invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney |
Machine that had something todo with cotton |
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What was the cotton kingdom? |
Nickname for the deep south where cotton was mainly produced. |
Place that was key for the cotton industry, what part of America wanted slavery? |
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Give the names of the five civilised tribes and what were they? |
Southeastern indians who adapted their lives to fit into the USA; Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole. |
Five tribes who were quite civilised e.g towns, schools |
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Explain was the Indian removal act was? |
Passed by Jackson, trying to end 'Indian problem' by moving them westwards |
Answer is basically in the question. |
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Who were Lewis and Clark? |
Explorers of the west. Left in 1804, had an Indian guide |
Rocky mountains, map route, west |
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Explain the Louisiana purchase? |
Bought french land in 1803. Cost $15 million for 828,000 square miles of land. Mississippi river to the room ky mountains and from gulf of Mexico to Canada. |
Big amount of land for a big bargain |
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What was the Missouri compromise? |
Way to balance slave states and free states, Missouri became slave state Maine became a free state, balance between slavery and no slavery. |
Slave state, equal no civil war |
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New Orleans |
City which acted as the centre of the cotton kingdom |
Cotton kingdom |
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North |
Anti-slavery, similar in economics religion and political views |
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