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67 Cards in this Set
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Did the NE want a high tarriff?
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Yes, for industries
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Did the South want a high or low tarriff?
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Low, for agriculture
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What was the Missouri Compromise?
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When Missouri was admitted into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state to keep the balance between slave and free states
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When did the Democratic-Republicans split into 2 parties?
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After 1824
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The Democrats followed...?
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Jackson
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The Republicans followed...?
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Quincy Adams
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When did nominating conventions start?
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1832
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Did Jackson increase or decrease Presidential powers?
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Increased
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Did Jackson favor destruction of the 2nd Bank of the US? Why or why not?
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Yes, he favored the destruction of it because he thought it was elitist
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What is the spoils system?
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The practice of giving your supporters jobs when you are elected.
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What is suffrage?
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The right to vote.
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What is social mobility?
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The movement of people through different social classes
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What was the Trail of Tears?
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When Andrew Jackson disobeyed the ruling of the Supreme Court and forced the Cherokee Indians of their land and made them march to present day Oklahoma
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What is a campaign?
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The actions someone takes in order to be elected
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What is a caucus?
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A meeting of supporters or members of a political party or movement to decide a candidate
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Who was the Age of Democracy under? And was in despite or because of him?
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It was during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson and it was in spite of him
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Did cheap land lead to greater or lesser democracy?
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Greater democracy
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Who were the Mountain Men?
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Fur trappers who travelled to the West and fur trapped. They also guided/helped encourage people to move west.
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What was the Manifest Destiny?
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The idea that the US was "destined" to expand to the Pacific Ocean. Taken from a Philadelphia newspaper
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Who did Spain grant land to in 1821? Who ended up getting the land and why?
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Moses Austin. He died soon after so his son Stephan got it.
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Who owned Texas in the early 1820s? Who led people into Texas? How many people did he lead?
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Mexico. Stephan Austin led 150-200 people into Texas
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By 1830, how many people are living in Texas?
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20,000
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By how much did the Americans outnumber the Mexicans by? What did this allow them to do? What did Mexico do in response?
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The Americans outnumbered the Mexicans 4-1, so the Americans stopped abiding by Mexican law. Because of that, Mexico banned any more Americans from moving to Texas
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What was the Texas Rebellion sparked by?
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The Battle of the Alamo
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What happened at the Alamo? What did the US use the result for?
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All Americans were killed at the Alamo. The US used it as ammo to become free
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What 4 countries had claim to Oregon? Which 2 dropped out fairly early?
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Russia, Spain, US and Britain. Russia and Spain dropped out fairly early.
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What line did the US want the border of Oregon to be?
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The 54'40'' line (Alaska)
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How did the US and Britain originally settle the dispute to the claim to Oregon?
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They had joint occupation for a while
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What eventually became the border to Oregon and when was it settled?
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The 49th parallel became the border in 1846
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Who was the Democratic nominee for President in 1844? Who did he beat to become president?
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James K. Polk was the Democratic nominee. He beat Henry Clay to become president.
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Did Polk believe in Manifest Destiny?
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Yes
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How many Mormons traveled from Illinois? Where did they settle?
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3,000 traveled from Illinois and settled in Utah.
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Who was the Mormon leader who was killed in Illinois? Who became the new leader?
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Joseph Smith was killed so Brigham Young took over as leader.
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What was the start of the Mexican War? Why?
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The Rio Grande river because the Mexicans viewed the placement of American troops along it as an act of war.
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What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago do? What did the US get?
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It ended the Mexican War. The US got California and New Mexico in exchange for $15 million, but Mexico only received about $5 million
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What was in California that inspired people to move out there?
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Gold
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What did the Wilmot Proviso say?
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That there would be no slavery in new lands taken from Mexico
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Why were many people against the Manifest Destiny?
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They thought it would bring disagreement with other countries
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Where did many farmers going west come from?
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Mississippi Valley
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In April 1830, the Mexican Government passed a law stating what?
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The law outlawed slavery in Texas and said no more Americans could settle in Texas
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Who was President of the US during the Annexation of Texas?
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Polk
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What were the two major issues of the 1840s?
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Texas and Oregon
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was another name for what religion? Where was their leader killed?
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The Mormons. Joseph Smith, their leader, was killed in Vandelie, Illinois
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What was the Homestead Act and how did it help the Union?
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It dealt with giving 100 acres of Western land to settlers. It helped the Union because more states=more Union soldiers
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What was contraband?
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A degrading name for former slaves
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What was the Morrill Act?
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It gave land grants to states to make agricultural colleges to help supply soldiers with food
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What were Copperheads?
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Union Democrats who opposed Lincoln so he stripped them of habeas corpus
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What is habeas corpus?
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The right to trial before inprisonment
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What did the National Bank Act do? Why did this harm the Union?
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It forced state banks to stop printing bank notes. It harmed the Union by diluting money
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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
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It was an executive order that freed the slaves in warring states (Confederate states)
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What was bounty?
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Money paid to men in the Union army
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What was bounty jumping?
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When people joined the Union Army, collected their money, and then deserted.
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Who was the last Union general? And were the terms of surrender he gave at Appomattox generous or not?
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Ulysses S. Grant. And the terms of surrender were generous.
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What did George B McClellan do that led Lincoln to fire him?
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He forced Lee to retreat at Antietam but didn't chase him, allowing Lee to survive.
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Who was Jefferson Davis?
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The civil leader of the Confederacy?
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What did Abraham Lincoln say the main issue of the Civil War was?
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Union, not slavery
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Why did Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson get the nickname "Stonewall"?
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Because he and his troops stood "like a stonewall" at Bull Run and stopped Lee's forces from advancing.
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Who was Robert E. Lee?
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The Confederate Chief General
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Who was William Sherman and what did he do?
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Lincoln's "closer". He marched and burned Atlanta to destroy the South's morale
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What did Rose Greenhowe do?
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She gave information to Beauregard to help at Bull Run (Union). She was a spy
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What did Mary Bowser do?
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A servant at Jefferson Davis's house, a spy for the Union
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What did Belle Boyde do?
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She supplied info and medicine to Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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What did Elizabeth Van Lew do?
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She gave info gathered from the Union's prisoners of war to Grant
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Who was Dorthea Dix?
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The superintendent of US Army Nurses
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What did Mother Bickerdyke do?
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She nursed injured soldiers and aggravated the doctors
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What did Julia Ward Howe do?
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She wrote "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
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What posed the greatest threat to civil liberties during the Civil War?
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Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus
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