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Cotton Gin
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Industrial Revolution
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Industrial Revolution
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Andrew Jackson Presidency
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George Washington Presidency
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Alexander Hamilton
1.He believed the country should focus on industry and trading 2.Wanted central government to regulate and tax all trade 3.Wanted a bank for the Federal government which would regulate all national funds and taxes- Wanted to assume all states war debt to build credit as a country
- Loose Construction
The government can do more than just what is listed in the constitution
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2nd Great Awakening
A large religious revival in the late 17 through the early 18 hundreds in which there was a large spread of new ideas in America including abolitionism, women's rights, temperance, and the underground railroad -
Untied States Costitution
establishes a three branch federal government with checks and balances and explains the election process for the nations democratic republican structure -
Bill of Rights
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Bill of Rights
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Jays Treaty
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John Adams
2nd President. First Vice President to George Washington. First President to serve only one term. XYZ affairs lead to an almost war with France called Quasi War. Passed Alien and Sedition acts that caused a lot of upset in the country because it was unconstitutional. -
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
Political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures insisted that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. The Resolutions argued that the states had the right to nullify unconstitutional laws made by congress -
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Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien Acts allowed the deportation of foreigners and make it harder to come into the US and the Sedition Acts made it so you could not publish anything against government officials -
Marbury vs. Madison
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Lousiana Purchase
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Judicial Review
the supreme court's ability to rule on whether or not laws are constitutional, came as a result of the Marbury vs Madison court case -
Embargo of 1807
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War of 1812
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Spoils System
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War of 1812
impressing US sailors, forcing them to fight. native Americans joined both sides to help fight. Treaty of Ghent ends war -
White House Burned
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Treaty of Ghent
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James Monroe
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Spain to Florida to US
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Abolitionists
a person who supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S -
Vasey's Rebellion
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Turner and Vesey
big slave rebellions. effect: harsher more powerful slave laws -
Monore Doctrine
Warning to Europe to stay out of Western Hemisphere (North and South America) -
"Trail of Tears"
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Georgia vs. Cherokee
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Indian Removal Act
Signed by Andrew Jackson, a law letting the president negotiate with the Native tribes in the South to be removed from current home and move west -
William Lloyd Garrison
An abolitionist who made an antislavery journal, helped organized abolitionist community -
Indian Removal Act
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Tomas Independence
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Martian Van Baren
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William Henry Harrison
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John Taylor
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Manifest Destiny
American ideology that expansion west was a divine right -
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James K. Polk
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Mexican American war
Deciding whether Texas was a U.S territory or Mexican territory
Texas annexation: incorporation of Texas into the Union as the 28th state
Mexico considered the border to be the Nueces River while the U.S claimed the border as the Rio Grande River
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Mexican American war
Deciding whether Texas was a U.S territory or Mexican territory
Texas annexation: incorporation of Texas into the Union as the 28th state
Mexico considered the border to be the Nueces River while the U.S claimed the border as the Rio Grande River
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Seneca Fall Convention
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Popular Sovereignty
People of a place make the rules of that place -
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Seneca Falls Convention
First female rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman" -
Gold rush
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Zackery Taylor
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Popular Sovereignty
People of a place make the rules of that place -
Compromise of 1850
5 separate bills passed together by the United States Congress in September of 1850 -
Sectionalism
The support of one's region over one's country.
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Millard Fillmore
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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Underground Railroad
network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves to escape into free states -
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Franklin Pierce
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Kansas Nebraska Act
Act passed which allowed for new territories to decide if they were a free or slave state by popular sovereignty. Repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30 -
Dred Scott
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Dred Scott vs. Stanford case
Dred Scott was a slave who went to court/attempted to sue the court because he wanted to be liberated; due to his ideology that if you once lived in a free territory, you should be granted freedom. The Supreme Court then created new rules regarding what slaves can or cannot do/voice in court, creating tension between the North and South -
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James Buehannon
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John Brown
Abolitionist who believed violence was the only way to abolish slavery and who led the raid on Harpers Ferry -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
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Presidential election of 1860
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Fugitive Slave Law
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Lincoln's Attitude Towards the War
Lincoln wanted to preserve the Union no matter what, even if that meant war. As the war went on Lincoln's goal changed to abolishing slavery to end the war. -
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Civil War
Lincoln won 40% of popular vote all from North. Upset Southerners because he was elected without southerners vote. South feared he would abolish slavery. This reasons encouraged the south to secede and form their own nation(1861). Fort Sumter was the first battle, it ended at the Surrender at Appomattox Court House(1865). During the war Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that freed slaves in the South and Gettysburg Address which further encouraged the civilians. ~680,000 deaths. -
Emancipation Proclamation
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Emancipation Proclamation
An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln declaring slaves in southern states free -
Gettysburg Address
written by Abraham Lincoln. dedication to those who battled during the Battle of Gettysburg by giving them their own sacred cemetery -
13th Amendment
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Lincoln Assinated
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Surrender at Appertains Court House