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US HISTORY FINAL
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Undergraduate 2
11/15/2009

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Agrarian Republic
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Small independent farmers, shop keepers, etc. wanted limited government. (govern least's governs best)
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John Brown
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Abolitionist, practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. Led the Pottawatomie massacre in 1856 in bleeding Kansas
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Preston Brooks
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Congressmen for South Carolina, assaulted Charles summer with walking cane because of speech about his uncle and his handicap.
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George McClellan
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became in charge of the war, led the Peninsula campaign, however he pulls back and doesn't fight.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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was general-in-chief of the Union Army during the American Civil War and the 18th President of the United States.He was surprised by a Confederate attack at the Battle of Shiloh; although he emerged victorious, the severe casualties prompted a public outcry.
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Robert Morris
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Devised a plan for a national bank and submitted to congress and was approved and became the bank of north america.
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Alexander Hamilton
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1st US secretary of the Treasury. He wrote half of the federalist papers, designed tax, led and supported the Federalist party.
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Theodore Parker
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was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist.
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Jefferson Davis
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Served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history. appointed President of the Confederate States of America. He was elected to a six-year term that November. During his presidency, Davis was not able to find a strategy to defeat the more industrially developed Union.
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David Walker
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African American abolitionist, wrote walkers appeal urging slaves to resort to violence when necessary tow in their freedom, slave masters wanted him dead.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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American abolitionist, editor of the Liberator, and a founder of the American anti-slavery society. He promoted immediate emancipation of slaves.
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Samuel Slater
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Father of the American Industrial Revolution. Brought British textile technology to America. He established tenant farms, and towns around his textile mills.
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Adam-Onis Treaty
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1918 U.S. vs. Spain territorial rights acquired Florida gave up Texas established the boundary of U.S territory and claims through the Rocky Mountains and west to the Pacific.
Sig: America is growing geographically
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Roger Taney
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delivered the majority opinion in Dred Scott vs. Standford- blacks could not be citizens of the U.S
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Democratic- Republicans
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Founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1792. It was created to oppose the economic and foreign policies of the federalist.
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Circuit Riders
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Ministers on horseback preached the message of salvation. it began with Francis Asbury
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Fugitive Slave Law
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1850 Denied alleged fugitives a jury trial and provided that commissioners received money when they caught slaves.
Sig: tremendous effect of deepening the anti-slavery impulse in the north.
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Joseph Smith
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Founder of the Mormons. Formed his own church in 1830 and in a few years gathered converts.
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American Temperance Society
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1826 a group of ministers in Boston organized the American society for the promotion of temperance. worked through lectures, press campigns, and the formation of local and state societies. 1833 the union was formed its goal was to either have moderation or total abstinence from liquor, wine, beer.
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Compromise of 1850
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Complex compromise mediated by senator Henry Clay that headed off southern secession.
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