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01/07/2013

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McCulloch v Maryland
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Congress has power under the Constitution to incorporate a bank pursuant to the Necessary and Proper clause
The State of Maryland does not have the power to tax an institution created by Congress pursuant to its powers under the Constitution.
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Florida Purchase Treaty
Definition
treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain
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James Monroe
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Passed MO Comp. Sent Jackson to attack indians, signed Fl. Treaty for 5m.
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Era of Good Feelings
Definition
Where the two parties united, Federalist party fell caused by the end of the war of 1812
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The American System
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A plan to unify and strengthen America by a tariff to protect and promote American industry; a national bank to foster commerce; and federal subsidies for roads, canals, and other 'internal improvements' to develop profitable markets for agriculture.
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Spoils System
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Created by Jackson allowing people to bribe their way into power so not only the wealthy could have a seat in government.
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Tariff of Abominations
Definition
The major goal of the tariff was to protect industries in the northern United States which were being driven out of business by low-priced imported goods by putting a tax on them. The South, however, was harmed directly by having to pay higher prices on goods the region did not produce, and indirectly because reducing the exportation of British goods to the US made it difficult for the British to pay for the cotton they imported from the South.The reaction in the South, particularly in South Carolina, would lead to the Nullification Crisis that began in late 1832.
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Indian Removal Act
Definition
signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. The act authorized him to negotiate with the Native Americans in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands
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Trail of Tears
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The path the indians took when forcefully relocated to federal reserves.
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Pet Banks
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state banks selected by the U.S. Department of Treasury to receive surplus government funds in 1833
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Specie Circular
Definition
executive order issued by U.S. President Andrew Jackson in 1836 and carried out by succeeding President Martin Van Buren. It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver.
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Panic OF 1837
Definition
financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices and wages went down while unemployment went up.
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Alamo
Definition
Battle which ended the Mexican Revolution, Texian soldiers successfully fended them off.
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Denmark Vesey
Definition
planned what would have been one of the largest slave rebellions in the United States
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Black Hawk
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led a band of Sauk and Fox warriors, known as the British Band, against European-American settlers in Illinois and present-day Wisconsin in the 1832 Black Hawk War.
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Nicholas Biddle
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Led the National Bank, was corrupt and caused a lot of debt
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Daniel Webster
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took part in several key U.S. Supreme Court cases which established important constitutional precedents that bolstered the authority of the federal government.
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Henry Clay
Definition
he favored war with Britain and played a significant role in leading the nation to war in the War of 1812. instrumental in formulating the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850, got John Quincy Adams elected.
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Stephen Austin
Definition
led the second, but first legal and ultimately successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families from the United States. The capital of Texas, Austin in Travis County, Austin County, Austin Bayou, Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Austin College in Sherman, and a number of K-12 schools are named in his honor
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Sam Houston
Definition
best known for his leading role in bringing Texas into the United States. became a leader of the Texas Revolution.[6] Sam Houston supported annexation by the United States.[7] The city of Houston is named after him.
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Santa Anna
Definition
For approximately the next five years he joined Buffalo Hump and a number of other war chiefs in conducting a series of raids and attacks on Anglo settlements, including the Great Raid of 1840, during which the Comanche burned two cities, and raided all the way to the sea.
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Tammany Hall
Definition
It was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City and New York State politics and helping immigrants, most notably the Irish, rise up in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s.
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Cotton Gin
Definition
Invention by Eli Whitney which greatly increased the speed at which cotton seeds could be removed, increasing the efficiency and amount of money a slave brought in increase greatly.
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Cult of domesticity
Definition
Set of values which stated women were to make the home a domestic place and provide the most comfort for their husband and childern.
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Erie Canal
Definition
The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that runs about 363 miles (584 km) from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
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Elias Howe
Definition
American inventor and sewing machine pioneer.
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Isaac Singer
Definition
e made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Many had patented sewing machines before Singer, but his success was based on the practicality of his machine, the ease with which it could be adapted to home use, and its availability on an installment payment basis.
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John Deere
Definition
American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world. Born in Rutland, Vermont, Deere moved to Illinois and invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837.
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Deism
Definition
belief that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to determine the existence of God, accompanied with the rejection of revelation and authority as a source of religious knowledge
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Second Great Awakening
Definition
reaction against skepticism, deism and rational Christianity, although why those forces became pressing enough at the time to spark revivals is not fully understood.
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Mormons
Definition
Mormons thus believe that their Church is the "only true and living church" because divine authority was restored to it through Smith. In addition, Mormons believe that Smith and his legitimate successors are modern prophets who receive revelation from God to guide the church. They maintain that other religions have a portion of the truth and are guided by the Light of Christ.
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Joseph Smith
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was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, the predominant branch of which is Mormonism. At age twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon, and in the next fourteen years he attracted thousands of followers, established cities and temples, and created a lasting religious culture.
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Brigham Young
Definition
American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death in 1877, he founded Salt Lake City, and he served as the first governor of the Utah Territory, United States. Young also led the foundings of the precursors to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.
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Horace Mann
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Arguing that universal public education was the best way to turn the nation's unruly children into disciplined, judicious republican citizens, Mann won widespread approval from modernizers, especially in his Whig Party, for building public schools. Most states adopted one version or another of the system he established in Massachusetts, especially the program for "normal schools" to train professional teachers.[1] Mann has been credited by educational historians as the "Father of the Common School Movement"
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Dorothea Dix
Definition
American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as Superintendent of Army Nurses
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James Fennimore Cooper
Definition
best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Among naval historians his works on early U.S. naval history have been widely received but were sometimes criticized by Cooper's contemporaries. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.
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Louisa May Alcott
Definition
an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.[1] Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.
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Breakers
Definition
People whose job it was to hunt and catch runaway slaves
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American Colonization Society
Definition
Created Libera for putting slaves back to Africa where they could be "free"
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American Anti Slavery Society
Definition
n abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass was a key leader of this society and often spoke at its meetings.
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Manifest Destiny
Definition
Manifest destiny was the belief widely held by Americans in the 19th century that the United States was destined to expand across the continent.
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Gettysburg
Definition
Gettysburg is a borough in and the county seat of Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States,[5] and the eponym for the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg and President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. The town hosts visitors to the Gettysburg National Battlefield in the Gettysburg National Military Park and has three institutions of higher learning: Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg College, and Harrisburg Area Community College.
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Vicksburg
Definition
series of maneuvers and battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War directed against Vicksburg, Mississippi, a fortress city that dominated the last Confederate-controlled section of the Mississippi River. The Union Army of the Tennessee under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant gained control of the river by capturing this stronghold and defeating Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's forces stationed there.
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Shiloh
Definition
he Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6 – 7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. A Union army under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had moved via the Tennessee River deep into Tennessee and was encamped principally at Pittsburg Landing on the west bank of the river. Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard launched a surprise attack on Grant there. The Confederates achieved considerable success on the first day, but were ultimately defeated on the second day.
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Copperheads
Definition
a member of a vocal group of Democrats located in the Northern United States of the Union who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates.
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Appomattox Courthouse
Definition
Where Lee surrendered to the Union
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Thomas J. Jackson
Definition
a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee.[3] His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. Confederate pickets accidentally shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863
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George B McClellan
Definition
a major general during the American Civil War and the Democratic Party candidate for President in 1864. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. Early in the war, McClellan played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army for the Union.
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Border State
Definition
States near the Mason Dixon line whose allegiances were not yet clear
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Trent and Alabama Affair
Definition
as an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War. On November 8, 1861, the USS San Jacinto, commanded by Union Captain Charles Wilkes, intercepted the British mail packet RMS Trent and removed, as contraband of war, two Confederate diplomats, James Mason and John Slidell. the crisis was resolved when the Lincoln administration released the envoys and disavowed Captain Wilkes's actions.
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Morrill Tariff Act
Definition
high protective tariff in the United States, adopted on March 2, 1861, during the administration of President James Buchanan, a Democrat. It was a key element of the platform of the new Republican Party, and it appealed to industrialists and factory workers as a way to foster rapid industrial growth by limiting competition from lower-wage industries in Europe.
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Jefferson Davis
Definition
President of the Confederacy
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George G. Meade
Definition
Skilled general, helped win Battle of 7 days, fredericksburg and gettysburg
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George Pickett
Definition
best remembered for his participation in the futile and bloody assault at the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name, Pickett's Charge.
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John Wilkes booth
Definition
if i dont know this im dumb
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Elizabeth Blackwell
Definition
was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register
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Bull Run
Definition
The Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas was fought August 28–30, 1862,[1] as part of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia, and a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) fought in 1861 on the same ground.
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Peninsula Campaign
Definition
Battles for the peninsula in CA
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Merrimack
Definition
best known as the hull upon which ironclad CSS Virginia was built during the American Civil War
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Fredericksburg
Definition
he Union army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates.
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Scalawags
Definition
southern slave sympathizers
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Carpetbaggers
Definition
People from the north going to the south during reconstruction
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KKK
Definition
white supremacy group, u know the rest
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Seward's Folly
Definition
dude bought alaska for 10m
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Andrew Johnson
Definition
ohnson became president when Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. A Democrat who ran with Lincoln on the National Union ticket, Johnson came to office as the Civil War concluded. The new president favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union. His plans did not give protection to the former slaves, and he came into conflict with the Republican-dominated Congress, culminating in his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives. The first American president to be impeached, he was acquitted by the U.S. Senate by one vote.
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edwin M. Stanton
Definition
was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War. Stanton's effective management helped organize the massive military resources of the North and guide the Union to victory.
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