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60 Cards in this Set
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Nat Turner
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Led a violent slave revolt in Virgina because he thought he was a prophet.
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Fredrick Douglas
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Former slave and abolitionist
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William Loyd Garrison
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radical abolitionist allowed women to hold leadership postions
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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abolitionist turned Women's rights activist, led the Seneca Falls Convention
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Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
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Women's rights convention that produced The Declaration of Sentiments
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The Texas Revolution (1836)
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Texans (americans and some tejanos) revolt against Santa Ana's heavy-handed rule and become their own republic, remember Goliad and the Alamo
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Manifest destiny
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Ideology that the United States was supposed to expand to cover all of the Americas popular in 1845 during Polk administration and Young American movement
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James K. Polk
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Southern Democrate president 1844,expanisionist-annexation of Texas and Oregon, Mex.American War
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The Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
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US annexed Texas and disputed boundary with Mexico, US wins and controls all the way to the Rio Grande and bought california and New Mexico
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Treaty of Guadlupe Hidalgo
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ended Mex-American War, established Rio Grande as border with Texas and sold California and New Mexico
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The Compromise of 1850
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california free texas slave also harsher fugitive slave laws
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Stephen A. Douglas
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southern Democrate proponent of Popular sovereignty and Kansas-Nebraska Act not abolitionist opposed Lincoln
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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
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repealed Missouri compromise line and let Nebraska and Kansas vote to be slave or free
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Bleeding Kansas
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fighting between Free soilers and Missouri Slaveholders tore Kansas Apart, corrupt elections, sacking of free soil capital Lawrence
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The Republican party
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New party-Nativist and anti slavery interests
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John Brown
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during "Bleeding Kanasas" violence led a revolt to kill 5 proslavery people
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Dred Scott Decison
1857 |
Slave tried to sue for freedom because he'd been living in a free territory he was ruled against because property can't sue and the gov. can't take away property with out due process
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Robert E. Lee
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Virginian, General in cheif of Confederate Army
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Emancipation Proclamation 1865
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free slaves in confederate states
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Gettysburg 1863
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turning point in the war Confederacy suffers major defeat on cemetry ridge vicksburg was captured soon after by the union
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Grant
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Union General more modern total war
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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union general marched across Georgia destorying as he went
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13th Amendment 1865
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freed slaves
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Andrew Johnson
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Pres. after Lincoln shot easy on the south during reconstruction angered republicans
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Radical reconstruction
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pushed by radical republicans wanted south to:
ratify 13th amendment every citizen swear loyalty to union allow blacks to vote and redistribute land |
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14th
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equal protection under the law for all citizens
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Freedmen's Bureau
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organization to help former slaves adjust to freedom learn skills ect.
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Sharecropping
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farm someone elses land in exchange for a portion of your crop bad system
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KKK
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white terrorists
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Dawes Severalty Act 1887
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divided tribal lands among Indian families in order to end tribal life.
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Andrew Carnegie
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steel monopolist born in scotland immigrated self made
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Samuel Gompers
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union leader
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Urban political machines
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services in exchange for votes think "Gangs of New York"
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Social Darwinism
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don't interfer w/ natural order monopolies and such
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Women's Christian Temperance Movement
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progressives anit alcohol
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populists
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mainly for Farmers
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William Jennings Bryan
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Proponent of silver, populist
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Pullman's strike
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huge strike by pullman Palace car workers and American railway Union broken by Pres. Cleveland because it obstructed mail --was very destructive
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Plessy v. Fergeson
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Seperate but equal
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Alfred T. Mahan
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Navy guy, expansion through sea power
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Spanish-American War 1898
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Fighting over mistreatment of cuba and U.S. maine explosion
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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Filipino leader worked with Americans to overthrow spain but fought them when they did not recognize Filipino independence
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WEB DU Bois
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Niagra movment Black Pride
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New Freedom
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Wilson's idea anti trust not so much regulation
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New Nationalism
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T. Roosevelts idea
Strong fed gov and pres reforms to protect women, children,workers good trusts |
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John Brown
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during "Bleeding Kanasas" violence led a revolt to kill 5 proslavery people
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Dred Scott Decison
1857 |
Slave tried to sue for freedom because he'd been living in a free territory he was ruled against because property can't sue and the gov. can't take away property with out due process
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Robert E. Lee
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Virginian, General in cheif of Confederate Army
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Emancipation Proclamation 1865
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free slaves in confederate states
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Gettysburg 1863
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turning point in the war Confederacy suffers major defeat on cemetry ridge vicksburg was captured soon after by the union
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Grant
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Union General more modern total war
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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union general marched across Georgia destorying as he went
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13th Amendment 1865
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freed slaves
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Andrew Johnson
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Pres. after Lincoln shot easy on the south during reconstruction angered republicans
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Radical reconstruction
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pushed by radical republicans wanted south to:
ratify 13th amendment every citizen swear loyalty to union allow blacks to vote and redistribute land |
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14th
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equal protection under the law for all citizens
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Freedmen's Bureau
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organization to help former slaves adjust to freedom learn skills ect.
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Sharecropping
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farm someone elses land in exchange for a portion of your crop bad system
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KKK
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white terrorists
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Dawes Severalty Act 1887
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divided tribal lands among Indian families in order to end tribal life.
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