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58 Cards in this Set
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Two arguments people used to justify slavery
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1. "Natural status" of blacks
2. Slave owners were paternalistic |
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What did the Indian Removal Act authorize?
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Indians move west of Mississippi River
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What did Worcester vs. Georgia say?
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Cherokee was independent from Georgia, Georgians can't enter Cherokee land
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What was President Jackson's response?
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Ignored the Supreme Court and removed indians
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What was the Trail of Tears?
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20k Cherokees removed land to Oklahoma
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What is paternalism?
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Acting like a parent of someone
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Who is Nat Turner?
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Most famous slave rebel who struck for freedom in Southampton County
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What is the benefit of a canal?
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Gave access to difficult-to-navigate rivers or by poor roads
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What is a benefit of a steamboat?
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Reduced flatboat travel time
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What did Gibbons vs. Ogden establish?
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regulates steamboat travel
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How are the cycle of boom & bust related?
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Economy grows rapidly after a period of time, then slows down & shrinks
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What was the cause of rapid urbanization?
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Immigration
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What is a tenement?
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Room forming a separate residence w/ a house or apartment
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To social Darwinists, what's the cause of poverty?
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B/c you're less capable
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Who is Jacob Riis?
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writer of "How the Other Half Lives"
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What is How the Other Half Lives about?
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poor living conditions for in NY tenements
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What were some popular forms for urban recreation?
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theaters, dancehalls, & cafes
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Goal of temperance movement?
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Partial of full abstinence from alchohol
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What are the reasons behind the temperance movement?
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Evangelicals saw drinking sinful and part of conversion
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What way could temperance movement be looked at as anti-immigrant?
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Part of normal life
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What did Horace Mann advocate?
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Free, tax-supported education to replace church schools
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What is a Utopian Community?
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Spiritual community
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Who is Joseph Smith?
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Publisher of Book of Mormon
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Why were the Mormons driven out of Ohio?
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Anti-Mormons saw Mormonism as fraudulent
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What is the goal of abolitionism?
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Abolish slavery
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What were the different approaches to abolitionism?
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- Violent overthrow
- Gradual emancipation - Recolonization - Immediate, peaceful emancipation |
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Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
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One of the 1st women to organize the first women's right convention
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Who is Lucretia Mott?
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One of 1st women to organize the first women's right convention
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What is significant about the Seneca Falls Convention?
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it held the first women's rights convention
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What was the Declaration of Sentiments?
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Injustices suffered by women, modeled on Declaration of Independence
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Why was Andrew Jackson known as "King Andrew"?
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He abused his power, power-hungry leader
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What is the concept of nullification?
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A state had right to nullify federal legislation
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What did the Force Act do?
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President could call troops but offered a way to avoid force by collecting duties
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Two main functions of the Second Bank of the US?
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- Depository for federal funds
- Gave credit for businesses |
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Who are the Free Masons?
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Male fraternity that attracted middle/upper men in commerce & social affairs
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Why did people oppose the Free Masons?
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It encouraged men to neglect family for alchohol
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What is Specie Circular?
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Gold / Silver accepted as payment for land
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What are the general beliefs of the Whigs?
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- Progress & perfectibility
- Favored social reforms - Temperance |
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What happened in the Caroline Affair?
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Caroline steamer carried supplies for Canada, British burned it
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What is meant by the term "Bible Belt"?
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New England colonies founded for religious purposes
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What are push and pull factors?
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Pull: circumstances that attract people to a certain location
Push: circumstances that push someone away from home |
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Push & pull factors to move west
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Pull:
cheap land quality soil gold rush Push: no available land poor soil crowded |
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Reaper's advantage
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allowed 2 men to harvest same # of acres of wheat
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Steel plow's advantage
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cut thru tough grass, didn't break
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Role of an Empresario
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- bringing "moral" colonists, distributing land, & enforcing regulations
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First Empresario
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Mosses Austin
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Fredonia Revolt
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1st attempt at Texas secession from Mexico
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Lone Star Republic
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Texas
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First president of Lone Star Republic
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Sam Houston
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4 functions of missions in West
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1. convert natives
2. start college / schools 3. introduce medical services 4. explore for railroads |
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Mormons moved out West because...
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sanctuary from religious prosecution
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"Forty-niners"
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People who rushed to California for gold
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Placer mining
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Panning and dredging for gold
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Manifest Destiny
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American expansion inevitable & divinely ordained
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Bear Flag Revolt
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impatient expansionists staged armed rebellion vs. Mexican authorities
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Who led Bear Flag Revolt?
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John C. Fremont
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What is significant about 54 40?
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Oregon County's nothernmost border
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How did mexican gov. react to annexation of Texas?
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broke relations w/ US
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