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Samuel Slater

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·     man who went over to England and memorized the layouts of textile factories and brought them back to the US. He is the father of the industrial revolution.

 

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Nullification
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The thought that any state could nullify a tax or law by the us government
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Hohn Quincy Adams
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son of john adams who became president in 1824 with controversial election

 

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John C. Calhoun
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VP under andrew jackson who resigned then went to south carolina and wrote about how they could suceed from the union bc of the nullification crisis
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Misouri Compromise
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compromise that said that missouri would come into the union as a slave state while every state above the southern border of misouri would be free
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James Monroe
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5th president, he waquired florida from spain mostly be cause of andrew jackson also his admin. was during misouri compromise
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Brigham Houng
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MORMON leader that took over after joseph smith. he moved the mormon pople to their promised land in what is now utah.
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Fredrick Douglas
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Black slave who became free. became a learned person and was an abolitionist and activist for many things
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Oneida Community
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Started by John humphrew Noise. hE HOPED IT WOULD MAKE A BETTER LIFE FOR EVERYBODY. ARGUED THAT THE ROOT OF EVIL WAS INPRIVATE PROPERTY SO IN THE COMMUNITY EVERYBODY OWNED EVERYTHING. ALSO BELIEVE D EVERY MAN WAS MARRIED TO EVERY SAVED WOMAN. MADE SILVERWARE
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Lucretia Mott
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one of the women at seneca falls convention to di9scuss womens rights
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Dorthea Dix
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Reformer for the mentally insane
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Cherokee Nation vs Georgia
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cherokee nation tried to say that bc they are a foreighn nation the laws of georgia do not extend over their lands
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Martin Van Buren
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BP and secretary of state under andrew jackson then became president
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whigs
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party that came about bc of their common dislike of how andrew jackson was running things
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Indian Removal Act
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andrew jackson moved all native americans westward and intoindian territory in oklahoma. every tribe east of mississippi was moved west of it. many tribes fought back andwere focibly moved. trail of tears came from this act
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Spoils System
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where a newly elected party gets rid of the people in place by the old party and put in their own
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corrupt bargin
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in election where jackson lost to JQA he said Henry Clay made a corrupt bargain with adams so that he could be made sec of state
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2nd Great Awakening
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from the 1790-1840 wehre there were great movements in the church. one of the best known preachers of the time was Lyman Beecher who alsow as a reformer for the temperance movement along with the great awakening came a lot of reform like transcedentalism, womens rights, and the slavery issues
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Erie Canal
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A canal that goes from atlantic ocean to lake erie
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Mills Girls
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Girls who worked in mills
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Francis cabot Lowell
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a businesws man who went to europe and memorized the textile industries and brought the idea of them and the layouts to warehouses in boston and america
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Era of good feeling
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the time period when there was one main political party demoncrat. republican came after frencha  ndindian war
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Henry Clay
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representative who supported the idea of the missouri compromise and was involved with the election of 1824 scandal
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election of 1824
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This is where andrew jackson was the forerunner of the election and was beaten by john quincy adams. what happend was that the vote went to the house of reps and bc of that henry clay was ousted and he went to adams and said he would rally votes for adams in return clay was put as sec of state wich was then a stepping stone to president
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sectionalsim and issues surrounding it
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support for slavery in southa nd the north was anti slavery caused rift between two areas.
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"exposition and protest"
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John C. Calhoun wrote about the idea of succession and how the states had the right to be able to succeed from the union. it was a protest against the tarrif of 1828
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Monroe Doctrine
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the idea that the US would not invovle itself in the theings in europe and european colonies while also europe would not involve itse3lf witht hte matters of the US
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Andrew Jackson
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president from 1829 to 1837
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turnpikes
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roads maintained in exchance for a small fee to travel on
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common wealth system
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a traditional englis term for political communityh founded for the commmon good or in which all participants have wequal standing. KENTUCKY MASS. PENN. VIRGINIA
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COMMON LAW
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LAW DEVELOPED BY JUDGES THRU DECISIONS OF COURTS AND SIMILAR TRIBUNAL... A LEGAL SYSTEM THAT GIVES WWEIGHT TO LAW BC IT IS UNFAIR TO TREAT SIMILAR FACTS FDIFFERENTLY ON DIFF OCCASIONS
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STATUTE LAW
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WRITTEN LAW SET DOWN BY LEGISSLATURE
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TRAIL OF TEARS
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TOT WAS THE RELOCATION AND MOVEMENT OF THE NATIVE AMERICANS. INCLUDING CHEROKE, CREEK, SEMINOLE, AND CHOCKTAW NATIONS AMONTH OTHERS IN THE US.
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DAVID WALKER
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BLACK ABOLITIONIST WROTE DAVID WALKERS APPEAL TO THE COLOURED CITEZENS OF TH WORLD. DENOUNCED THE AMERICAN INSTITUTION OFSLAVERY AS MOST OPPRESSIVE IN THE WORLD HISTORY AND CALLED ON THE PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DECENT TO RESIT SLAVERY AND RAQCISM BY ANY MEANNS
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RACHEL ROBARDS
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WIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON
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EC STANTON
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AMERICAN SOCIAL ACTIVIST, ABOLITIONIST, AND LEADING FIGURE OF THE EARLY WOMANS MOVEMENT. PRESENTED AT THE FIRST WOMENS RIGHTS CONVENTION HELD IN 1848 AT SENACA FALLS
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TRANSCENDENTALISTS
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A GROUP OF NEW IDEAS IN LITERATURE RELIGION CULTURE IAND PHILOSOPHY THAT EMERGED IN NEW ENGLAND IN THE EARLY 19 CENT.
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THE LIBERATOR AND WILLIAM L GARRISON
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HE WAS A PROMINENT AMERICAN ABOLITIONIST AND SOCIAL REFORMER. EDITOR OF RADICAL ABOLITONIST NEWSPAPER, THE LIBERATIOR AND  ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE AMERICAN ANTI SLAVERY SOCIETY, HE PROMOTED EIMMEDIATE EMANSIPATION. ALSO SUPPORTED WOMENS RIGHTS AND CONSERVATIVE RELIGIONS.
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SHAKERS
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UNITED SOCIETY OF BELIEVERS IN CHRISTS SECOND COMMING. PRODESTANT RELIGIOS SECT
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AMERICAN SYSTEM
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ECONOMIC PLAN BASED OF IDEAS OF ALEXANDER HAMILTONS AMERICANS CHOOL... HIGH TARRIF F TO SUPPORT INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS SUCH AS ROADBUILDING AND NATIONAL BANK TO ENCOURAGHE PRODUCTIVE ENTERPRISE AND FORMA A NATIONA CURRENCY. THIS PROGRAM WAS INTEDNDED TO ALLWO US TO GROW AND PROSPER BY PROVIDING DEFENCE AGAINST THE DUMPING OF CHEEP FORIGHN PRODUCTS.
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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MAJOR CHANGES IN AGRICULTURE MAN. MINING, AND TRANSPORT, CHANGED SOCIOECONOMIC AND CULTURAL CONDITIONS.
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NULLIFICATION CRISIS
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A SECTIONAL CRISIS DURING THE PRESIDENCY OF ANDREW JACKSON CREATED BY SOUTH CAROLINAS 1832 ORDINANCE OF NULLIFICATION. ORDINANCE DECLARED, BY THE POWER OF THE STATE ITSELF, THAT THE TARRIF OF 1832 WERE UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND THEREFORE NULL AND VOID WITHIN THE SOVERREIGNH BONDARIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA
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PANIC OF 1837
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PANIC IN THE US BUILT ON SPECULATIVE FEVER. THE BUBBLE BUREST MAY 10 1837 WHEN EVERY BANK STOPEPED PAYMENT IN GOLD. THE PANIC WAS FOLLOWED BY FIVE YEAR DEPRESSION WITH FAILIURE OF BANKS AND RECORD HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT LEVELS
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TURNER REVOLT
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SLAVE REBELLION THAT TOOK PLACE IN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY VIRGINIA DURING AUGUST 1831. LED BY NAT TURNER, SLAVES REBELLED AND KILLED 55 WHIT EPOPLE. THE REBELLION WAS PUT DOWN WITHIN A FEW DAYS BUT TURNERSURVIVED IN HIDING FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AFTERWARD
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WORCSTER V GEORGIA (1832)
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A CASE IN WHICH THE US SUPREME COURT HELD THAT CHEROEKEE NATIVE AMERICANS WERE ENTITLED TO FEDERAL PROTECTION FROM THE ACTIONS OF STATE GOV. WHICH WOULD INFRINGE ON TRIBES SOVEREIGNTY
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HORACE MANN
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AN AMERICAN EDUCATION REFORMER AND A MEMEBER OF MASS HOUSE OF REP. FSTATE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF MASS. BROTHER TO NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
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LYDIA FINNEY
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NEW YORK MORAL REFORM SOCIETY ESTABLISHER IN 1834
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SUSAN B ANTHONY
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PROMINENT AMEWRICAN CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER WHO PLAYED A PIVOTAL ROLE IN THE NINTEENTH CENTURY WOMENS RIBGHTS MOVEMENT TO INTRODUCE WOMENS SUFFEREAGE INTO THE UNITED STATES
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PEGGY EATON
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WIFE OF SENTATOR JOHN HENRY EATON HAD A CENTRAL ROLE IN THE PETTICOAT AFFAIR THAT DISRUPTED THE CABINENT OF ANDREW JACKSON
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SENACA FALLS CONVENTION
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FIRST CONVENTION OF WOMENS RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
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BROOKS FARM
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A UTOPIAN EXP IN THE COMMUNAL LIVING IN UNITED STATES IN THE 1840'S. FOUNDED BY GEORGE RIPLEY. AS A JOINT STOCK COMPANY, PROMISED ITS PARTICIPANTS A PORTION OF THE PROFITS FORM THE FARM IN EXCHANGE FOR PERFORMING AN EQUAL SHARE OF THE WORK
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TAPPAN BROTHERS
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ABOLITIONISTS WHO FOCUSED ON CAPTIVE AFRICANS. ASSURED THE ACQUISITION OF HIGH QUALITY LAWYERS FOR CAPTIVES WHICH LED TO THEIR BEING SET FREE AFTER THE CASE WENT TO SUPREME COURT
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Joseph Smith
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founder of latter day saint movement, also known as mormonism, and an important religious and political figure during the 1830's and 1840's. In 1827 smith began to gather a following and announching an angel had shown him a aset of golden plates describing a visit of Jesud to the peoples of america.
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MORMONS
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A TERM USED TO DESCRIBE THE ADHERENTS, PRACTITIONERS, FOLLOWERS OF CONSTITUENTS OF CERTIAN DENOMINATIONS WITHIN THE LATER DAY SAINTS MOVEMENTS.
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SOLD DOWN THE RIVER
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PRACTICE OF SELLING UNWANTED BLACK SERVANTS TO BE SLAVES ON PLANTATIONS.
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TREATY OF PARIS
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SIGNED DEC 10 1898 ENDED SPANISH AM WAR
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ADAMS ONIS TREATY
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TERRITORY AND CLAIMS THRU ROCKY MTNS AND WEST TO PAC OCEAN IN EXCHANGE FOR US PAYING RESIDENTS CLAIMS AGAINST SPAN GOV. AND RELINQUSHING ITS OWN CLAIMS ON PARTS OF TEXAS WEST OF SABINE RIVER AND OTHER SPAN AREAS.
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LOUISIANA PURCHASE
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AQUISITION BY USA OF FRENCH TERRITORY PAID ELEVEN MILLION DOLLARS AND THRE MILLION DOLLARS OF DEBT FOR LAND.
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RUSH BAGOT TREATY
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TREATY BTN USA AND UK ENACTED IN 1817. TREATY PROVIDED FOR BRITTISH NAVAL ARMAMENTS ON GREATLAKES TO BE DEMILITARIZED. LAID BASIS FOR DEMILITARIZED LINE BETWEEN BRITTISH AND AMERICA
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OREGON BOUNDARY TREATY
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BETWEEN UK AND IRELAND AND USA. 1846. BROUGH AN END TO DISPUTE OVER OREGON BOUNDRY. AND PROVIDE IT FOR USA.
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MANIFEST DESTINY
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TERM USED TO DESIGNATE THE BELIEF THAT THE USA WAS DESTINED EVEN DIVINLY ORDAINED TO EXPAND ACROSS THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT
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JOHN L SULLIVAN
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AMERICAN COLLUMNIST AND EDITOR WHO USED THE TERM MANIFEST DESTINY TO PROMOTE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS AND OREGON COUNTRY TO THE STATES
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OREGON TRAIL
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MAIN OVERLAND MIGRATION ROUTES TO OF NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT LEADING FROM MISSOURI RIVER TO OREGON COUNTY
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SANTA FE TRAIL
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FIRST USED AS COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY HIGHWAY UNTIL INTRO OF RAILROAD IN 1880
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MARCUS AND NARCISSA WHITMAN
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CROSSED ROCKY MTNS AND FOUNDED THE PRODESTANT WHITMAN MISSION NEAR WALLA WALLA WASHINGTON
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ZACHARY TAYLOR
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12 PREZ. WHIG PARTY NOMINEE
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JAMES K POLK
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11TH PREZ. DEMOCRAT. 
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WINFIELD SCOTT
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USA GENERAL UNSUCCESSFUL PREZ CANTIDATE OF WHIG PARTY IN 1852 in active duty longer than any other man

 

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TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO 1848
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PEACE TREATY DICTATED BY THE USA TO INTERM GOV OF MEXICO THAT ENDED MEX AM WAR
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MEXICAN CESSION
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A HISTORICAL NAME IN US FOR THE REGION OF THE PRESENT DAY SOUTHWEST USA THAT MEXICO CEDED TO THE US
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CALIF GOLD RUSH
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WHEN GOLD WAS DISCOVERED BY JAMES WILSON MARSHAL AT SUTTERS MILL IN COLOMA CALIF NEWS SPREAD. 1848
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WILMOT PROVISO
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WOULD HAVE BANNED SLAVERY IN ANY TERRITORY AQUIRED FROM MEXICO IN MEXICAN WAR. or in future including areas known as mexican cession.
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SPOT RESOLUTION
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1847 ABE LINCOLN CALLED OUT CURRENT PREZ POLK TO SHOW EXACTLY WHERE AMERICAN BLOOD WAS SPILLED. WHEN HE MADE SUCH CLAIMS TO ENTER WAR W/ MEXICO
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"CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE"
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THE ACTIVE REFUSAL TO OBEY CERTIAN LAWS, DEMANDS, AND COMMANDS OF A GOV, OR OCCUPYING POWER
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HENRY CLAY
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19 CENT AMERICAN ORATOR WHO REP KENTUKY. DOMINANT IN FIRST PARTY SYSTEM KNOWN AS GREAT COMPROMISER/PACIFIER
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DANIEL WEBSTER
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LEADING AMERICAN STATESMAN. ROSE TO POWER THRU NEW ENGLAND SHIPPING INTERESTS. BECAME VERY INFLUENTIAL WHIG LEADER OF SECOND PARTY SYSTEM
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STEPHEN DOUGHLAS
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NOMINEE FOR DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN 1860 HE LOST TO REPUBLICAN ABE LINCOLN. NICKNAMED LITTLE GIANT
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FREE SOIL PARTY
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ANTI SLAVERY PARTY DURING 1848 AND AROUND THAT TIME RAN SAYING EVERYONE DESERVED LAND.
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KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT
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REPEALED MISSOURI COMPROMISE OF 1820. ALLOWED SETTLERS IN THOSE TERRITORIES TO DETERMINE IF THEY WOULD ALLOW SLAVERY WITHIN THEIR BOUNDRIES.
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KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT
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REPEALED MISSOURI COMPROMISE OF 1820. ALLOWED SETTLERS IN THOSE TERRITORIES TO DETERMINE IF THEY WOULD ALLOW SLAVERY WITHIN THEIR BOUNDRIES.
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BLEEDING KANSAS
Definition
SERIES OF VIOLENT EVENTS INVOLVING ANTI SLAVERY FREE STATERS AND PRO SLAVERY BORDER RUFFIANS ELEMENTS. TOOK PLACE IN KANSAS AND FRONTIER TOWNS OF MISSOURI. BETWEEN 54-58 AT THE HEART OF THE CONFLICT WAS WETHER KANSAS WOULD ENTER AS A FREE STATE OR SLAVE STATE.
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SUMNER BROOKS AFFAIR
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PRESTON BROOKS BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF SUMNER AND KILLED HIM AFTER SLANDERING BROOKS SLANDERED HIS UNCLE
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ROGER TANEY
Definition
5TH CHEIF JUSTICE OF THE USA. FIRST ROMAN CATHOLIC. THE OVERSEEING JUDGE DURING DRED SCOTT DECISION. THAT RULED THAT AFRO AMERICANS ARE LOWER THAN DIRT
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DRED SCOTT DECISION
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RULED THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS BEING CONSIDERED OF AN INFERIOU ORDER AND ALTOGETHER UNFIT TO ASSOCIATE WITH WHITE RACE. DID NOT DESERVE RIGHTS OR FREEDOM
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ABE LINCOLN
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16TH PREZ ASSASINATED. MADE IT THRU CIVIL WAR ENDING SLAVERY
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LINCOLN DOUGLAS DEBATES
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SEVEN DEBATES BETWEEN STEPHEN DOUGLAS AND LINCOLNFOR THE 1860 ELECTION.
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JOHN BROWNS HARPERS FERRY RAID
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ATTEMPT BY ABOLITIONIST JOHN BROWN TO START ARMED SLAVE REVOLT BY SEIZING CONTROL OF USA ARESENAL AT HARPERS FERRY IN VIRGINIA. DEFEATED BY ROBERT E LEE
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ELECTION OF 1860
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CIVIL WAR DIVIDED STATE... ABE LINCOLN REPUBLICAN PARTY ONE MONTH LATER LETTERS OF SECCESSION
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FREEPORT DRINE
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GIVE THE STATES CHOICE ON WETHER TO BE SLAVE FREE OR HAVE SLAVERY
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