Unit 3 American History

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Political Map

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Map that shows the political borders of a country

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Physical Map

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Map that shows the geographic features of a country

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Topographic Map

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Shows natural and man made features on a map

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Cartography

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The Art of Making Maps

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Cardinal Directions

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North, South, East, West

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Intermediate Directions

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Northeast, Southeast,Northwest, Southwest

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Map legend

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Tells what the symbols on a map mean

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Map Scale

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A device on maps that allows you to measure distances between two or more points

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Compose Rose

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Located on a map it tells directions

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Louisiana Purchase

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Purchase of land by Thomas Jefferson that doubled the size of the united States

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Treaty of San Illdefonso

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was a secretly negotiated treaty between France and Spain in which Spain returned the colonial territory of Louisiana to France.

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Hatian Revolution

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Revolt against Napoleon's rule that causedNapoleon to give up his idea of an Empire in North America and to sell Louisiana territory to the U.S.

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Saint Domingue Expedition

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was a French military expedition sent by Napoleon Bonaparte, attempting to regain French control of the island of Saint-Domingue and curtail the measures of independence taken by the former slave Toussaint Louverture. It ended in a French defeat at the battle of Vertières and the departure of French troops in December 1803.

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Francois de Barbe-Marbois

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In 1803 he negotiated for France the Louisiana Purchase treaty by which Louisiana was ceded to the United States,

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Foreign Minister Talleyrannd

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French Foreign Minister that offered the Louisiana Territory to the United States for 15 million

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James Monroe

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President of the United States that developed the Monroe Doctrine and as a representive of America helped negociate the agreement (along with Livingston) that enable America to buy the Louisiana territory.

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Yellow Fever

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A virus is transmitted by the bite of female mosquitoes

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Missouri Compromise

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Compromise made to protect the balance of free and slave states in the U.S. Congress. Missouri was admitted as a slve state and Maine was admitted as a free state. Slavery could not exist above Missouri's Southern border in future admitances.

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War of 1812

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A military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. The Americans declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions because of Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support of American Indian tribes against American expansion, and over national honour after humiliations on the high seas.

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Mexican-American War

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an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution.

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Manifest Destiny

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the idea that it was America's obvious fate to rule all the land from the East Coast to the West Coast in North America

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Northwest Ordianance of 1787

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an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States, passed July 13, 1787. The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River.

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Nation-State

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a government that represents a territory inhabited by a people sharing a common culture and language

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James Madison

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Father of the Constitution

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Ruler of France at the time of the Louisiana purchase. He wanted to create an empire in North America, but after the Hatian Revolt gave up and sold Louisiana to America.

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Trail of Tears

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800 mile forced March of the Chrokee Indians from their homeland to Indian Reservations in Oklahoma during which many Indians died of the hardship.

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Thomas Jefferson

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President of the United States during the purchase of the Territory of Louisiana.

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Texas War for Independence

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a war between Mexico and settlers in Mexican owned Texas. It started when Meico threathened to kick out all American settlers of Texas because they refused to follow the laws of Mexico. The Texans won.

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Aaron Burr

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third Vice President of the United States (1801–1805), under President Thomas Jefferson In the election for the presidency he tied Jefferson on votes

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John C. Calhoun

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Southern leader from South Carolinia. Leader of opposition to the Tariff of Abominations and a leading supporter of states rights.

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Mexican Cession

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a historical name in the United States for the region of the present day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in 1848.

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Monroe Doctrine

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a policy of the United States that 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.
The Doctrine noted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries.

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Gadsen Purchase

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a region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty for the purpose of the US's construction of a transcontinental railroad along a deep southern route.

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Barbary Pirates

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Pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast.

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Treaty of Ghent

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the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Robert Livingston

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One of two Represenatives sent by President Jefferson to Negociate the purchase of New Orleans from the French. They ended up agreeing to purchase the entire Louisiana Territory.

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Lewis and Clark

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Leaders of the exploration team assigned by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Teritory.

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Panic of 1837

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A financial crisis or market correction in the United States built on a speculative fever.[

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Oregon Territory

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Area of land located in the Northwest Corner of the continental U.S. Oregon is annxed into the U.S. as a U.S. Territory in 1848 by President Polk

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Spoils System (Kitchen Cabinet)

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Began by Andrew Jackson, it is practice of giving government jobs to supporters. HIs unoffical advisors were known as the Kitchen Cabinet

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Old World

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Europe

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New World

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North and South American Continents

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Oregon Trail

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A 2,000-mile (3,200 km) historic east-west wagon route that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon and locations in between.

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Cumberland Gap

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A pass through the Cumberland Mountains region of the Appalachian Mountains, also known as the Cumberland Water Gap, at the juncture of the U.S. states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. Famous in American history for its role as one key passageway through the lower central Appalachians, it was an important part of the Wilderness Road

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Wilderness Trail

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The principal route used by settlers for more than fifty years to reach Kentucky from the East. In 1775,