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1st Semester IS Final Study Cards
For anyone who needs it? No chapter 25 though (yet)
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History
11th Grade
01/17/2011

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President's military title
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Commander-in-Chief
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Citizens who decide verdicts in court cases
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Jury
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Number of congresspersons needed to hold a vote
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quorum
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Americans who represent the USA overseas
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ambassadors
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Federal crime punishable by death
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Treason
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A two House Congress is called a ? legislature
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Bicameral
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Term Length of President?
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4 years
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Term length of U.S Senator?
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6 years
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Term length of U.S Congressperson (House)
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2 years
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Term length of Supreme Court Justice
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Lifetime tenure
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Counting the population is called a ?
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census
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WA State U.S Senators (as of 2010)
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Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray
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President chosen by ?
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Electoral College
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? succeeds President in case of death/resignation/removal
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Vice President
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Federalists supported the ? Acts to irk immigrants and Jeffersonians
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Alien and Sedition
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Jefferson supported ? Act of 1807 to cut off trade
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Embargo
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Kidnapping of American sailors by British
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Impress(ment)
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Manmade waterway for transportation
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Canal
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Virgina and Kentucky resolutions were to give rights to ? at Federal Government's expense
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States
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President Washington supported ? treaty with Britain to stay out of war
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Jays
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War of 1812 nickname
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Madison's War (Second War of Independence)
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Process for immigrant to become citizen
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Naturalization
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Alexander Hamilton, the "Father of ?"
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National Debt
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Not taking sides in a war
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neutral
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City Jefferson wants to buy
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New Orleans
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Napoleon's 1803 real estate dump
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Louisiana Territory
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Capital of U.S when Washington was president
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New York City
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1814- British burn down ?
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Washington D.C.
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Bombs were "bursting in air" at ?
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Fort McHenry
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Waterway linking Hudson River and Great Lakes
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Erie Canal
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Bought from Spain in 1819
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Florida territory
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River used by Lewis and Clark to head West
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Missouri River
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1820-Newest slave state
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Missouri
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George Washington home
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Mt. Vernon
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Senator who helps avoid civil war in 1812
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Henry Clay
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Fear/distrust of foreigners
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Nativism
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First Vice President under Jackson
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John Cannon
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Prices down, Money value up
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deflation
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Accusation of political deal in election of 1824
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The Corrupt Bargain
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Leave union or detach from group/association
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Secede
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Slave that led Virginia rebellion
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Denmark Vesey
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Nickname for railroad in 1800's
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Iron Horse
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Archaic term for metallic money or coins
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Specie
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Georgia Tribe that made own written language
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Cherokee
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Slave states that did not cede
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Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland
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Slave revolt of 1822
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Charleston, SC
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John Brown was hung here
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Charleston, West Virginia
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Indian territory
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Oklahoma
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Earliest factories
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Rhode Island
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Lousiana Purchase is west of this River
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Mississippi River
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Alamo was fought in
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Alamo, Texas (Okay, this was obvious)
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National Road
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SE Illinois to SW Pennsylvania
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Mormon settlement
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Utah
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Location of turnaround point in Civil War, Union victory from here on
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Lincoln/Douglas debate
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Illinois, most likely Springfield?
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New England expresses opposition to War of 1812 at
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Hartford Convention
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Louisiana Purchase forced Jefferson to reconsider
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loose interpretation of the Constitution
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Advocation of improved infrastructure by Clay
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American System
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William Harrison made his name as an Indian fighter at
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Tippecanoe
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Lewis and Clark set out to
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look for Northwest Passage
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War of 1812 was outcome of larger
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Napoleonic conflict
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U.S forced natives to give more land using
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armed diplomacy
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Regional tensions create new feeling of ? after 1819
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sectionalism
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James Madison is best known as
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The Father of the U.S Constitution
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Revolution of 1800 showed
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Peaceful transfer of power from one party to another
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Those who couldn't afford land may become
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speculators
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Tariff synonym
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excise tax
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Treat of Ghent in 1814 restored
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status quo antebellum
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Marbury vs. Madison led to this legal mechanism
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judicial review
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Period after War of 1812 also known as
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Era of Good Feelings
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Most 19th century Catholic influx from
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Germany and Ireland
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Jacksonian Democrats against
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central banking
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Jackson weakened National Bank by
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Removing federal deposits
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Vital political change of 1820's
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Most states removed property qualifications for male voters
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As Polk became president, he did NOT favor
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raising national tariff
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End of Mexican was a triumph for
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American expansionists
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In U.S. Samuel Slater is known as--
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Father of Factory System
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Removal of native tribes to west= example of Jackson's belief in
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Exercising federal power
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Annexation of Texas delayed by
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Slavery plot debate
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Whigs did NOT favor
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Southern slave economy
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Government-printed money to finance war
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Greenbacks
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Cash payment given to soldiers to enlist or re-enlist
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bounty
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Slaves confiscated by Union during war
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contraband
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Compulsory enlistment of men in army
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Draft
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Legal term-One must be charged with crime to be jailed
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Habeas corpus
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Northerners against war
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copperheads
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Nickname for Lincoln
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Honest Abe

(Or, if you'd like, Awkward Abe Lincoln)
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Party against immigration
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Know-Nothings
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Plan to defeat South
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Anaconda Plan
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Lincoln's assassin
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John Wilkes Booth
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symbol of Union sacrifice
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Bloodied Shirt
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Combos of companies who agree to fix prices
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Trust
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Money paid to influence someone in authority
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Bribe
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Appointing family and relatives to positions in government
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nepotism
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State or local laws that codified racial segregation
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Jim Crow laws
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Asian immigrants denied entry after 1882
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Chinese (under Chinese Exclusion Act)
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import tax
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tariff
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The People's Party
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Populists
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Ceasing work to gain bargaining power
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retirement
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Control all phases of industry
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monopoly
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government controlled by wealthy
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Plutocracy
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contracts that forbade union membership
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Civil Service Commission
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radicals who believe in no rules, violence at Haymarket square
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Anarchists
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Giving contracts or jobs to friends
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Cronyism
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Federated Association of self-governing unions founded by Gompers
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Associated Federation of Labor(ers)
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Nickname for the Irish
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Patty or Paddy or Paddies
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Money paid to official later for favor given
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kickback
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New process for making cheaper steel
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Bessemer
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Width of Railroad track
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Standard gauge
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African American soldiers in West
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buffalo soldiers
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White Chief with Yellow Hair
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General Custer
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Leader of Nez Perce
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Chief Joseph
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Dung on prairie used for fuel
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Manure or buffalo chips
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Silver Rush takes in Fifty Niners here
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Comstock
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Giant pens where cattle are kept before slaughter
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Stockyards
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Leader of Apache that fights against U.S Army
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Geronimo
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Government gives away land after 1862
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Homestead Act
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Derisive term for farmer-pioneer
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Sodbusters
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Nickname for Oklahoma land rushers
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Sooners
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Church in Utah
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Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
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Land given to tribes by U.S Government
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Reservation
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Another name for Buffalo
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Bison/hunchback cows
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Mineral discoveries give rise to new communities
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Boomtown
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Moving cattle across land for delivery
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long drive
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violent labor strike in 1894
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Pullman Strike
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Multiple wives
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polygamy
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Period of little rainfall
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Drought
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Pen name of Samuel Clemens, author of tom Sawyer
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Mark Twain
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Prices up, value of money down
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inflation
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Incorporation by joining or uniting (ex. Texas)
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Annexation
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Americas were meant to expand throughout all of North America
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Manifest Destiny
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Party in power after Tyler became President
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Whig Party
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President who wanted to secure California from Mexico
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Polk
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Nickname for state in huge political tumult over slave status
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Bleeding Kansas
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Book that is said to have started to Civil War, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Act determining slavery status using popular sovereignty for two new states in 1850s
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Kansas-Nebraska acts
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Slave who was forced back into slavery after many years of freedom and denied lawsuit
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Dredd Scott
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Nickname for the Purchase of Alaska
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Seward's Folly
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nickname for northern Unionists trying to gain profit in the South using unorthodox methods
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carpetbaggers
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