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U.S History 13-15
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11th Grade
10/28/2010

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Henry Clay
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Created American System and the Great Compromiser
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John C. Calhoun
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Vice President of the South pamphlet "South Carolina Exposition"
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John Quincy Adams
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Accused of making corrupt bargian with Henry Clay
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Andrew Jackson
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1st President from the west 1st nominated at a formal party convention
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Martin Van Buren
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Jackson's Choice
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Nicholas Biddle
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President of Bank of US
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Stephen Austin
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Gave lands- 300 American Families from TX, Roman Catholics exclaimed
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Samuel Slater
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Father of factory system
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Cyrus McCormick
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Mower- reaper (western farmers)
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Eli Whitney
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Invented cotton gin & interchangeable parts
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Robert Fulton
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"Clearmont" aka steamboats
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Samuel Morse
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Inventor of the telegraph
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Dorothea Dix
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Report on the insane 1848
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Charles G. Finney
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Revival preacher of 2nd Great Awakenng
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
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Abolitionist and campainger for woman's rights
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self- Reliance best known trancendention
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Noah Webster
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Improved textbooks- dictionary
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Author who wrote morbid sensibility
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Henry David Thoreau
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Walden pond, civil disobedience
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Walt Whitman
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Leaves of Grass
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Emily Dickenson
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Refused to publish work when died
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Herman Melville
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Moby Dick about a captian and a whale
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Joseph Smith
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Visionary, wrote Boork of Morman church of Jesus Christ
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Brigham Young
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Morman muses flourished election before Andrew Jackson and John Adams
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Nullification crisis
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erupted over teriff policies
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Andrew Jackson's Indian Policies
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Western expension- Indian removal act
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Jackson's veto of the bank recharter bill- causes and consequences
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Led to unsable financial system
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Causes of panic of 1837
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Resulted from overspectulation
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"Cult of domesticity"
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Having fewer children
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Hudson River School
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landscape schoolings
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