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US HISTORY FINAL
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12/07/2008

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Sequoyah
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a self-educated cherokee, devised an 86 character phonetic alphabet that made it possible for Cherokees to have a bible and a bilingual tribal newspaper
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Cherokee Phoenix
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bilingual Cherokee newspaper that was written in cherokee as well as english.
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Worcester v. Georgia
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Indian nation was declared a distinct political community where the laws of Georgia had no say in. Georgia could not enter without permission or treaty privilege...but Georgia didn't comply.
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Osceola
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A Seminole Indian leader who refused to vacate their homes and fought the protreaty group (didn't want to be relocated.)
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John L. O’Sullivan
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labeled manifest destiny, belief that American expansion westward and southward was inevitable.
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
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Mexican General during the Mexican and Texas war.
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Oregon Fever
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the westward movement of settlers via the Oregon Trail.
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Bees
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working party, different types such as country bees, apple bees - picked apples in orchards, sweing bees - women that made clothing
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Joseph Smith
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founder or Mormons, clained that an angel named Moroni had given him divine engraved gold plates...published The Book of Mormon.
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Brook Farm
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community that rejected materialism, believed that physical world is secondary to spiritual realm, more artistic achievements than economic...Founded by George Ripley.
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Forty-niners
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rushed to California in search of gold.
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Democracy in America
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Alexis de Tocqueville characterized the US as a place of equality and opportunity for white males.
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Louisa May Alcott
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single woman, author or Little Women,
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Negro Convention Movement
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1830-1835 -organization to fight for equal rights. Free blacks held national conventions with delegates from city and state organizations
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Denmark Vesey
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conspiracy in Charleston in 1822 led by free black named D. Vesey who won a lottery and bought his freedom and became a religious leader.
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Nat Turner
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led a band of rebels from farm to farm at night in 1831. Slaughtered 60 white men and women...he was eventually caught and hanged, but more than 200 African Americans were killed in the rebellion.
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Code Duello
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encouraged men to defend their honor through violence in the south.
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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US gained California and New Mexico and present day Nevada, Utah and Arizona and parts of Colorado and Wyoming and Rio Grande as the southern border. Americans agreed to settle claims of its citizens against mexico ($3.2 million) and pay pay Mexico $15mil.
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Domestic Slave Trade
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older slave states are selling their slaves to the newer states who need them rfor cotton cultivation.
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David Wilmot
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proposed an amendment to ban slavery in any territory gained from mexico called the Wilmot Proviso.
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Popular Sovereignty
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the majority vote wins
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“Slave Power Conspiracy”
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northeners were worried about the economic issue of slaves taking their jobs rather than the moral aspect.
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Know-Nothings
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American Party or KNow Nothings because its first members kept their purposes secret " I know nothing"
- exploited nativist fear of foreigners and Catholics.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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white woman, abolitionist whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin attacked cruelty of slavery, most popular novel - sold millions of coppies
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Preston Brooks
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beat Charles Sumner with his cane for saying non gentleman things about his uncle.
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Lecompton Constitution
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second of 4 proposed constituitons for Kansas, document written in response to anti-slavery response to 1855 Topeka Constitution. Met at Lecompton to produce rival document. Free state supporters boycotted vote. L. Consitution enshrined slavery in Kansas and protected rights of slave holders (for-slavery) allowed option to vote for more slaves in the territory
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John Brown
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radical abolitionist with a band of followers murdered 5 proslavery settlers along Pottawatomie Creek and armed with bands of guerrillas roamed territory battling over land claims and slavery.
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John J. Crittenden
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tried to craft a late hour compromise: wanted to divide territories to North and South at Latitude 36,30.
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Fort Sumter
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federal arsenal at Fort Sumter located in the south. Lincoln tried to resupply the fort and south tried to capture it, battle broke out. Civil War had began.
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George B. McClellan
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major general during Civil War, organized famous army of the Potomac and served as general and chief of Union Army.
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Walt Whitman
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poet left a record of his experiences as volunteer nurse in Washington D.C. wrote Leaves of Grass (1855)
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Shiloh
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faught April 6-7 in 1862, major battle in western theater of Civil War, launched suprised attache against Union Army of U. Grant and came close to defeating his army.
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Gettysburg
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Union army suffered 1/4 of its troops as casualties and stopped confederate invasion. Results disastrous for south. Confederacy split in two.
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Clement L. Vallandigham
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leader of Peace Democrats and made them highly visible and criticized Lincoln as a dictator, arrested thousands of innocent citizens w.o congressional authority ....arrested him for treason even though he stayed within legal bounds.
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John Wilkes Booth
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embittered southern sympathiser, shot Lincoln in head at Point Blank...died the next day. Good Friday April 14th.
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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general in Union Army during Civil War, outstanding military strategy and implemented total war against confederate states.
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