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| What is the 1st Ammendment?(5 Things) |
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| Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition the government. |
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| What is the 2nd Ammendment? |
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| Right to bear arms (Right to form a militia) |
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| What is the 3rd Ammendment? |
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| You can not be forced to quarter troops in your home. |
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| What is the 4th Ammendment? |
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| Protects against unreasonable search and seisure |
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| What is the 5th Ammendment? |
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| What is the 6th Ammendment? |
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| What is the 7th Ammendment? |
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| What is the 8th Ammendment? |
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| Limit of fines and punishments |
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| What is a public defender? |
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| an attorney or lawyer that is provided to anyone who cannot afford one, paid by tax $ |
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| What is reasonable suspicion? |
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| A law that only applies in the school system, any other place needs probable cause for search and seisure. |
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| When the government takes away private property for public use with just compensation. |
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| You cannot be tried twice with the same crime, you can be tried with a differnt charge. (Ex. 1st degree murder -> manslaughter) |
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| What does the term "fruit of the piosonous tree" mean? |
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| Any evidence found during an illegal search is not admissable |
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| Person who invented the cotton jin. |
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| What was the Industrial Revolution? |
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| A time period in the 1700's when the north's economy was based upon industrial buinesses and was very populated. The South was more agricultural, dominated by a strict class system and less "advanced". |
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| What is the main cash crop/leading product of the south? |
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| What are the 4 social classed in order of wealthiest to poorest? |
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| Planters (very rich, owned mansions), Yeoman Farmers/ Urban class(ordinary families, often lawyers, doctors, merchants), Rural Poor (Families with no land), African Americans (slaves). |
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| Slaves were given a specific set of jobs to accomplish each day and once they were completed they could spend their time however they wanted |
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| Slaves worked from sun up to sundown~ there was a driver that acted as a director that kept them on task. |
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| What were the slave codes in the south? |
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| Law that forbid slaves from owning property and eaving their owners land without permission, owning firearms, testifying in court against a white person and learning to read or write. |
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| What was Nat Turner's rebellion? |
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| When Nat Turner led slaves in killing over 50 white men, women, and children. |
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| - General of the US at the Battle of New Orleans -National Hero after the Battle of New Orleans was won -Voted President of the United States |
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| What was the Spoils System? |
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| A system that allowed Andrew Jackson to appoint ordinary citizens to government jobs; based upon loyalty, support and service. |
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| What was the Trail of Tears? |
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| The journey the Cherokee Indians went through moving westward.The president used to army the remove them. |
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| to have anti-imigrant feelings |
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| What was the Second Great Awakening? |
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| An early 19th century movement to spread christianity across America |
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| Who was Charles Gradison Finney? |
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-Founder of the Second Great Awakening
-Preached that people had the capacity for spiritual rebirth and salvation.
-Founded modern realism |
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| Founder of the Mormans around the 1830's |
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| They believed that they needed to build a kingdom on earth to recieve the second coming of god. |
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| What is transcendentalism? |
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| An expressions of American Romanticism. |
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| Who is Henry David Thoreau? |
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| He removed himself from society in order to gain a better understanding of it. |
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| What is a Utopian Commune? |
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| Perfect society that was charaterized by cooperative living and the abscence of private property. |
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| Small Utopisn communes from Main to Kentucky ~ named after ritual "shaking dance. ~ Didnt believe in marriage or having children |
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| In the 1800's, women felt that alcohol was destroying the american family. In attempt to fix the problem, they undertook this reform movment. |
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| What were the Prison Reform beliefs? |
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-Prisoners should be reibilitated rather than just locked up
-Solitary confinement
-The mentally ill were put in an institution rather than prisons. |
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| Who was Catherine Beecher? |
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| A woman who believed that woman cacn find fufillmett at home. This book gave instructions on child care, cooking, and health matters. |
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| What was the Seneca Falls Convention? |
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| A convention that discussed the state of women in the US and future reform efforts. |
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| What other document was the "Declaration od Sentiment and Resolutions" compared to? |
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| The Declaration of Independence |
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| What is manifest destiny? |
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| The god given destiny to move west. |
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| 1849 (49ers) People started moving west~ California (San Fransisco Area) |
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| What was the Donner Party? |
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| A Group of 87 pisoners that headed out on the Oregon Trail but was moved off trail to the "quicker" route but were trapped in snowstorms which ulitimately caused their death. |
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| Who did Texas gain its independence from in 1821? |
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| What did Stephen Austin do? |
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| Founded colonies and brought in settlers. Led Texas independence and asked from Santa Ana independence and was sent to jail |
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| Mexican President who didnt like Americans |
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| What happened at the Battle of the Alamo? |
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| Santa Ana surrounded the Alamo in San Antonio, Mexican soldiers screaming "Viva Santa Ana", They killed most Texans (Few Women and Kids were spared) |
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| What happened at the Battle of San Jacinto? |
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| Texans found Mexicans asleep and Sant Ana was sleeping with the aid of opium, Sam Houston and 900 men killed 630 mexicans in 18 minutes, this resulted in the treaty of velasco. |
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| What was the treaty of velasco? |
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| a treaty that granted independence to Texas with Sam Houston as president. |
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| What were the results of The Compomise of 1850? |
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| -Califorina is admitted as a free state. -Popular sovereignty is to be used in Utah and New Mexico -Slave trade, but not slavery itself, is abolished in D.C |
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| What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? |
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| It was the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and it divided the region into territorries (Kansas and Nebraska)was decided to be free state or not by popular sovereignty. |
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| What was Bleeding Kansas? |
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| It was when people rushed in from Missouri to vote in the election. They helped elect a pro-slavery government. Anti slavery people were mad and got into a fight with the pro-slavery people and 200 people were killed. |
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| What happened to Charles Sumner becuause he insulted Andrew P. Butler? |
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| He was beaten witha cane by Andrew P. Butler's cousin. |
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| What was John Brown's Raid? |
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| When John Brown tried to free and arm the slaves and start a rebellion against the slaveholders. |
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| Leader of the Confederacy during the Civil War, also the President of the Confederacy. |
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| What was the attack at Fort Sumner? |
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| It was when Lincoln wanted to resupply Fort Sumner, which was a American Fort in the Confederacy, and the South didnt want them entering so they bombarded the fort and forced the union to surrender. |
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| What were the advantages of the North heading into the Civil War? |
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| -Good navy -Large population -Industry -Good econemy -Food on Farmlands (edible cash crops) |
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| What were the disadvantages of the North heading into the Civil War? |
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| - Distributed paper money which lead to 80% inflamation -Troop motivation: Unclear goals |
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| What were the advantages of the South heading into the Civil War? |
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| -Large number of trained officers -Farmland was mostly cash crops -Extremely Motivated! |
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| What were the disadvantages of the South heading into the Civil War? |
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| -Did not have railroads -1/3 of the population was slaves -Ony 1 factory to make cannons -Had to build factories -No Money! -Weak Government |
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| What was the Anaconda Plan? |
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| The North blockaded southern ports on the Atlantic (Isolated them European trade), Cut of flow of supplies,equiptment, money, food and cotton which forced the South to surrender. |
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| What was the Southern strategy of Defensive War of Attrition? |
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| Picked their battles carefully, attacking and retreating when nessecary to avoid large battles that they might face loosing heavily. Forced the Union to run out of rescources and negotiate. |
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| What happened/who won the Battle Of Manassas/Battle of Bull Run? |
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| -North attacked the South -Confederated (South) won! -At this time Lincoln realized that they needed a bigger army. |
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| What was the Battle of Antietam? |
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| -Bloodiest 1 day battle of the Civil War -Lee tries to take over D.C. |
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| What is the Emancipaton Proclamation? |
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| A law that freed slaves in the Condeferacy. (Not the Union!) |
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| What was 54th Massichusetts? |
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| An all black regiment that did mostly manual labor and paid taxes on things like their uniforms unlike white soldiers. |
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| Who was Elizabeth Blackwell? |
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| The first female physician |
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| What was the United States Sanitary Commission? |
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| A group started by women that provided supplies to wounded soldiers. |
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| The only person executed for war crimes. |
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| What 4 characteristics was true womanhood based upon? |
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| Piety, purity, domesticity, and submissivness. |
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| What were the key parts of the Battle of Gettysburg? |
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| -Lee marched to PA -This battle turns side of war to the Union -Lee was forced to abandon -Many casualties |
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| What was the March to the Sea? |
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| When the North traveled to the south burning crops, killing livestock, and destroying anything that crossed their path. This demoralized the South. |
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| Where did Lee surrender to Grant? (This surrender ended the Civil War) |
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| Where was Lincoln assasinated? |
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| Who is John Wilkes Booth? |
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| The person who assasinated President Lincoln. |
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| What is the 13th Ammendment? |
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| What act did the 14th Ammendment eventually lead to(final implementation)? |
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| What is the 15th Ammendment? |
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| Pohibited denial to vote because of race, color, or previous servitude. |
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| What was the final implementation of the 15th Ammendment? |
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| What was Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan? |
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| -Government would pardon all Confederates who would take an oath of alligence to the Union -Radical Republicans wanted to destroy the power of the former slaveholders |
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| What was Johnson's Reconstruction Plan? |
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| -Confederates must sign an oath but start from scratch in the class system aspect -Pardoned 13,000 former confederated who believe that white men alone should manage the south. |
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| What was Congress' Reconstruction Plan? |
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| Created the Freedmans Bureau and the Civil Rights Act. |
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| What was the Freedman's Bureau? |
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| Aid to help former slaves with legal issues, food, housing, education, healthcare, and employment cantracts; reunited families! |
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| People who rented out land that they farm on by paying a share of their crops to the farm owner. |
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| The first Civil War nurse. |
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