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54 Cards in this Set
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Who authorized the purchase of the Louisiana Territory? |
Thomas jefferson |
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Who sold America the Louisiana territory,and what country was he from? |
Napoleon,France |
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What served as the western border of the united states until the Louisiana purchase? |
Mississippi river |
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How much money did the united states spend on the Louisiana purchase? |
15 million |
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Who were the leaders of the corps of Discovery ,and who was the main leader? |
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Lewis was the main leader |
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What were the aims and goals of the corps of Discovery during their exploration of the Louisiana territory? |
They were to find the north west passage |
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How many men went on the journey? did anyone die? |
33 men,1 died |
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Which river served as the main route for the corps of Discovery across the Louisiana territory? |
The Missouri river |
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Who was sacagawea,what was her purpose,and what happened to her after the journey? |
She was a women who acted as a guide to navigate and communicate with natives |
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Who were the Mormons, and what happened to them at independence,Missouri? |
A religious group that made independence there holy city |
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What phrase did John O Sullivan coin,and what did it mean |
Manifest destiny |
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Who sometimes had a lot of conflict with the settlers headed west on the Oregon trail. |
Native Americans conflicts with settlers as they went west |
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What country settled the issue of the northern border of Oregon at 49 degrees N latitude with the USA. |
Britian |
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What were wagon trains? |
Large band of settlers would often travel togather |
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What happened at the Whitman mission, and why did it occur? |
The white man mission was burned after white settlers |
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What were some reasons that women were excited about the chance to move to the Oregon territory? |
The could own there own land there which was forbidden in other countries |
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What were Prairie schooners |
Boats form a distance |
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What was Oregon fever? What were some reasons that many people were willing to uproot their homes and families and move there? |
it was the wild expansion that people had for moving out west to the Oregon trittory |
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What country did mexico gain their freedom in 1821? |
spain |
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What were the reasons that Spain wanted to Americans to help settle the Tejas region |
The help defend the territory from native americans |
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What rules were Texans supposed to follow as a part of their gaining land in Tejas? |
Documents were to be signed n Spanish,had to become they had to become roman chathlec as well |
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Who was the leader of Mexico during the time the Texas revolution? |
General Santa anna |
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Who were the two leaders of the Texan army after they declared independence from mexico? |
William Travis and Sam Houston |
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In what modern us city can you find the Alamo? |
San Antonio Texas |
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What was the impact of the battle of the Alamo? |
It served as inspiration for the Texans |
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What battle ended the war for the Texans independence with the capture of Santa Anna? |
Battle of San Jacinto |
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What was the nickname that Texans gave itself following their victory? |
Lone stare republic |
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Why did the united states refuse the annex mexico into the union immediately |
Northern states did not want to let Texans into the union |
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The Mexican-american war ended with the capture of what Mexican city? |
Mexico city |
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Mexico ceded away massive chunks of the american southwest to the USA in what treaty? |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidlago |
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What american soldier/explorer encouraged the Americans to rebel? |
John Fremount |
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What were parts of the Missouri compromise? |
Missouri would be admitted as a slave state |
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Why were both the North and the south unwilling to put Missouri into the union first? |
The number of free states and slave states at the time was equal. |
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What would be the best description of the reaction of Thomas Jefferson to the Missouri compromise? was he in favor of it? why or why not? |
He was alarmed by it,he consider it a death sentence of our country. |
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Where was gold first found in California in 1848 |
Sutters,mill California |
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After a successful rebellion against mexico,what did the Californians rename themselves? |
Bear flog republic |
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what were some of the negative effects people had in moving to California to strike if rich? |
many were with failure and bankrupted themselves |
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What was the spoils system? |
Giving people jobs to your supports and friends |
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What did the Indian remove act do? |
Forcibly remove the native Americans from their lands. |
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What did the treaty of new Echota do that hurt the Cherokee peoples? |
Made them give up all their land east of the Mississippi river as well |
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Who was the president that Andrew Jackson defeated in the election of 1828? |
John Quincy Adams |
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What was the second bank of the united states |
Financial institutional that Jackson eliminated |
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Who was William Loyd Garrison |
Abolish who was published |
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Which amendment banned slavery for good |
13th amendment |
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What did the anti-slavery society try to do |
They tried to bring morel oppositions to slavery |
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Who wrote uncle toms cabin,and why is it important |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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What were people who helped slaves escape on the underground railroad |
Conducters |
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Why do you think people are ricking there lives |
they did not want slavery |
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What was the primary purpose of the Seneca falls |
To bring the struggle of how women were mistreated |
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What women opened up Tory female |
Emma willard |
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what is women suffrage |
the right to vote |
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who has custody of the children in divorce cases |
men |
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what famous document was the Seneca falls |
declaration of independence |
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when did the USA give women the right to wrote |
not until after the 14th amendment th e1920s |
