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28 Cards in this Set
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Rural
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pertaining to countryside
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Urban
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pertaining to a city
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Turner's Rebellion
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unsuccessful slave revolt led by Nat Turner in 1831
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Emancipation
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freeing of enslaved people
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Suffrage
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the right to vote
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Fugitive Slave Act
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part of the compromise of 1850; a law ordering all American citizens to return any run away slaves to their owners
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Lower South
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states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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1854 act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.
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Gadsden Purchase
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1853 purchase by the US of southwestern parts of Mexico
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Ghost Town
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an abandoned town due to lack of economic activity
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Abolitionist movement
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the movement to end slavery
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Industrialization
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the growth of industry
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manifest destiny
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argument that it was the undeniable fate of the US to expand across North America
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Texas War for Independence
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successful revolt by Texans against Mexican rule (1835-1836)
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Adams-Onis Treaty
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1819 treaty between the US and Spain, in which Spain ceded Florida to the US, also called the Transcontinental treaty
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Mountain Man
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an American fur trader who explored the Rocky Mountains and regions farther west in the early 1800s
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California Gold Rush
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mass migration to California after the discovery of gold in 1848
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Battle of Alamo
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capture by Mexican troops of a Texas held mission in San Antonio in 1836
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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signed in 1848 by Us and Mexico ending the Mexican War
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Underground Railroad
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a series of escape routes that provided protection for slaves who are fleeing to the north for newfound freedom
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Compromise of 1850
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agreement designed to ease the tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories
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Secessionist
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a person who wanted the south to secede
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Oregon Trail
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trail from Independence; Missouri to Oregon during the 1840s, many pioneers used to travel
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Cotton belt
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the nickname for the band of states from SC to TX whose economies relied on cotton production
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Gag rule
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rule passed in 1836 prohibiting antislavery petitions to be read or acted upon
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Border States
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the states between the North and the South in the Civil War (Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri)
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Santa Fe Trail
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trail from independence; Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico in the mid 1800s
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annex
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to join or attach
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