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1840 presidential election |
First election where people started to campaign more than 80% of white men voted |
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54th massachusetts |
The regiment was one of the first official African-American units in the United States during the Civil War. |
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Aaron Burr |
served as vice president under jefferson. Mortaly wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south. |
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abolitionists |
The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. |
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Alexander Hamilton |
leader of the federalists, established a national bank, mortaly wounded in a duel with aaron burr. |
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Andrew Jackson |
common man, born in a log cabin changed politics, invaded Spanish Florida in 1818 |
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Antietam |
also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland. It was also the bloodiest single day battle in American history with a union victory, afterward Lincoln establishes the emancipation proclomation. |
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Appomattox court house |
On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee (1807-70) surrendered his approximately 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) in the front parlor of Wilmer McLean’s home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively |
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Bear flag republic |
The California Republic was a short-lived, unrecognized state that, for a few weeks in 1846, militarily controlled the area to the north of the San Francisco Bay in the present-day state of California(all you need to know). |
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Bill of Rights |
the first ten amendments of the constitution. Defines the rights of citizens |
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blockade |
an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. |
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Brigham young |
religious leader of mormon church. Led migration to Utah |
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California Gold Rush |
tons of people moved to california to join in on the gold rush. This included Chinese immigrants. long lasting effects on californias economy |
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Cash Crops |
A cash crop is an agricultural crop which is grown for sale to return a profit. |
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Cherokee |
Forced removal with trail of tears |
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Conestoga Wagons |
The Conestoga wagon is a heavy, coveredwagon that was used extensively during the late eighteenth century and the nineteenth century in the United States and Canada. USED TO TRAVEL WEST |
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Confederate capital |
Richmond,Virginia |
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cotton gin |
The modern mechanical cotton gin was invented in the United States in 1793 by Eli Whitney (1765–1825) increased cotton processing |
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Customs duties |
a tariff or tax imposed on goods when transported across international borders. |
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Davy crockett |
Died at the alamo |
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Democrats |
mistrusted a strong central government |
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Dred Scott case |
In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States.DIVIDED NATION EVEN MORE |
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Embargo |
an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.
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fifteenth amendment |
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." |
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Fort sumter |
First attack in the civil war |
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Forty Niners |
The gold-seekers, called "forty-niners" (as a reference to 1849), traveled by sailing ship and covered wagon and often faced substantial hardships on the trip. |
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14th amendment |
addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.
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Francis cabot lowell |
He was instrumental in bringing the Industrial Revolution to the United States. launched factory system |
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frederick douglass |
african american social reformer |
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Freedmen's Bureau |
The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65). |
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Fugitive slave act |
Required northerners to return southern slaves to their masters |
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Gettysburg |
The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civision of the North. Often referred to as the "High Water Mark of the Rebellion", Gettysburg wal War, the Union victory that ended General Robert E. Lee's second and most ambitious invas the Civil War's bloodiest battle and was also the inspiration for President Abraham Lincoln's immortal "Gettysburg Address". |
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Harriet beecher stowe |
wrote uncle tom’s cabin |
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Harriet tubman |
ed slaves through the underground railroad and had a large bounty on her head. |
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Henry clay |
responsible for missouri compromise |
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Hiram revels |
a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a Republican politician, and college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War. african american senator |
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Horace Mann
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introduced reforms that significantly altered public education
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Indian removal act |
forced the removal of many native americans |
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Industrial revolution |
the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. |
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Irish immigrants |
moved to the us because of the potato famine |
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John Adams |
first vice president |
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John marshall |
chief justice of supreme court established united states constitutional law |
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John Quincy Adams |
James Monroe's secretary of state |
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John Wilkes Booth |
killed abraham lincoln during a performance in a theatre |
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judicial review |
the judicial branch's power to declare acts unconstitutional |
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Judiciary act of 1789 |
established u.s. federal jury |
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Judiciary act of 1801 |
reduced the size of the Supreme Court from six justices to five and eliminated the justices' circuit duties. |
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Kansas |
lawrence massacre |
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Ku Klux Klan |
Aggressive secret society that punished blacks for voting and whites who supported the blacks. |
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landslide |
an overwhelming electoral victory |
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Lewis and Clark |
Went on an expedition to explore america’s new territory |
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Louisiana territory/purchase |
A Massive purchase from France for about 1.5 million dollars.
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Manifest destiny |
Belief that the U.S. would keep expanding west. |
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missouri compromise |
regulated slavery in the country's western territories. |
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monroe Doctrine
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stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. |
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Mormons |
a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a religion founded in the US in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr. |
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Most slaves worked as |
fieldhands |
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mountain men |
A mountain man is a male trapper and explorer who lives in the wilderness. |
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national republicans |
political party in the United States. During the administration of John Quincy Adams (1825–1829), the president's supporters were referred to as Adams Men or Anti-Jackson. |
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North’s economy |
based off of industry |
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Northern goal for civil war |
reunite the union |
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partisan |
a strong supporter of a party, cause, or person. |
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patent |
a document granting an inventor rights to their invention |
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peter cooper |
built first american locomotive
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poll tax |
tax on voting so blacks couldn't vote |
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popular sovereignty |
the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives |
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reconstruction |
the period after the American civil war when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the union 1865-1877 |
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Richmond |
confederate capital |
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Samuel Morse |
developed morse code |
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Sedition act |
extended the Espionage Act of 1917 |
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Seminole |
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Shermans march to the sea |
His forces destroyed military targets as well as industry, infrastructure, and civilian property and disrupted the Confederacy's economy and its transportation networks. |
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South disadvantages during civil war |
no factories to make weapons |
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Souths economy |
based off of agriculture |
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state department |
sets and maintains foreign policies |
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states rights |
the south’s main reason for fighting in the civil war
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strikes |
a group's refusal to work |
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suffrage |
the right to vote |
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Tarriff of 1816 |
the first tariff passed by Congress with an explicit function of protecting U.S. manufactured items from foreign competition. |
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temperance |
abstinence from alcoholic drink. |
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Texas |
most useful for supplying soldiers and horses for Confederate forces. |
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13th amendment |
slavery and involuntary servitude are not permitted |
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trade unions |
another term for labor union. |
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Trail of tears |
a series of forced relocations of native americans. |
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Transcendentalists |
a person who accepts these ideas not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships. |
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Treasury Department |
collects revenue |
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underground railroad |
secret way to save wars that was provided by american abolitionists. |
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war department |
responsible for maintaining armies |
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washington DC |
us capitol |
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womens rights movement |
time when women were protesting to get voting rights and other rights. |
