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Describe the difference between Great Wagon Road, Wilderness Road, and the National Road |
The National Road is paid by taxes |
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roads built by private companies that charge a toll |
turnpike |
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How many turnpike companies were incorporated in Connecticut and what year? |
50, 1830s |
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what were the areas of American innovation during the Jacksonian Era |
communication, transportation, agriculture |
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what year was the first telegraph message successfully sent |
1844 |
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who was the first postmaster general |
Benjamin Franklin |
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What was the first telegraph message |
What hath Godwrought |
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shallow manmade water highway connecting two bodies of water |
canal |
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what was the most famous american canal and what areas did it connect |
Erie canal, Albany New York on the Hudson River with Lake Erie |
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Where did the regular postal service begin |
Massachussets Bay Colony |
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Who invented the telegraph |
Samuel FB Morse |
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what year was the first major railroad trial successfully completed |
1830 |
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who was Daniel Boone and what significant land area is he responsible for establishing |
a woodsman, Kentucky and a land speculator |
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Describe the treatment of the Indians in Oklahoma, Indian Territory |
treated badly |
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what was Texas called while waiting to join the Union |
Lone Star Republic |
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How did most people in the US feel when the US went to war with Mexico |
that it was unneccessary |
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what did the US do to Mexican debt after the war |
cleared it all |
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a name for Americas expansion to the West |
Manifest Destiny |
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what was the Great Emigration of 1843 |
Kansas to Oregon |
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what religion did American settlers in Mexico have to become |
Roman Catholic |
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what battle ended in twenty minutes? How many Mexican army men were killed/captured by Texans |
The Battle of San Jancito. 1, 400 |
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what two reasons did the US refuse the annexation of Texas |
fearing war and the unbalance between slave and free states |
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who discovered gold in California and what year |
James Marshall, 1848 |
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what was the major disagreement between Mexico and the US concerning Texas |
The southern border |
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80,000 men who went to California for gold |
forty-niners |
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what year was the decleration signed for the US to go to war with Mexico |
1846 |
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what did Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty establish |
ended fighting and made Rio Grande the boundry |
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What is the Mexican Cession |
when Mexico gave states to the US |
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what was the Gadsden Purchase |
completed the power 40 states |
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what was the Wilmot Proviso |
its something congress denied, The Wilmot Proviso, one of the major events leading to the American Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War |
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what president died after just sixteen months in office? What year did he die |
Zack Taylor. 1850 |
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when a state wanted to leave the union |
secession |
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what formed the Republican Party and when |
the people, 1852 |
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how did the North and South feel about tariffs |
North liked it, South did not |
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what year did Abraham Lincoln win the presidental election and hwat party was he in |
1858, Republican |
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what were the Confederate States of America and who was nominated as the president |
Southern States, Jefferson Davis |
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What was the title of the book by Harriet Beecher Stowe, what was it about? |
Uncle Toms Cabin, slavery |
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what was the underground railroad |
it was underground tunnels where slaves could escape |
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what was the Fugitive Slave Act and what year was it enacted |
it said that all escaped slaves would have to be returned to their master and that free states would have to follow this law, 1850 |
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what did the Kansas-Nebraska Act allow |
It allowed the people of this territory to decide if they would allow slavery in the borders |
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what did the supreme court rule in the Dred Scott case |
they ruled against Dred Scott and said that slaves were not citizens so he couldnt sue |
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what year was Fort Sumter fired at |
1861 |
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what year did West Virginia become a state |
1863 |
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why was maryland put under martial law by President Lincoln |
because he wanted to keep them so they wouldnt lose their capital |
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what were the Southern advantages in the war |
the had more battle experiene |
