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7th Grade Unit 4 Exam Review
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02/25/2014

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impressments of soldiers, interference with American shipping, military aid to Native Americans
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What was a reason U.S declared war with Britain in 1812
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U.S beat a world power
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What was the importance of the battle of New Orleans?
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Monroe Doctrine
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What stated the principle that European nations could not establish new colonies in North and South America?
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citizens voting rights
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Andrew Jacksons presidency is known as the Jacksonian Democracy because of the exapansion of?
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Trail of Tears
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The Indian Removal Act led to the tragic journey of the Cherokee tribe known as?
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plantation agriculture
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Which of the following was the most important to the Souths economy in the 1830s?
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Water
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The first machines of the Industrial Revolution were powered by?
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Agriculture
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The inventions of John Deere and Cyrus McCormick greatly increased production of?
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Cotton Gin
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The main cause for a rapid growth in the production of cotton and slave labor was the invention of?
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Tarriff of Abominations
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increased the price of foreign manufactured goods and hurt southern economy
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Southern Planters
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Who was most affected by the Tariff of abominations?
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Native Americans
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Who did Andrew Jackson force to relocate
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push factors
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Starvation, poverty, lack of political freedom
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pull factors
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jobs, greater freedom and equality, abundant land
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Westward movement
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What allowed the U.S to go from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?
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cotton
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What product made the South significant in the global economy
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overcrowded
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What term can be used to describe American cities during the mid 1800s
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farmers
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Before the industrial revolution most people in the United states were?
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textile mills
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Built in the north because they had more rivers to supply power
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Republicans
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political party opposed to the spread of slavery
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Manifest Destiny
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the idea that there was land to settle all the way across North America
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House of Representatives
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Who chose the president in the 1824 election
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Nullification Crisis
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Said states could nullify or reject a law they thought was unconstitutional
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Democrats
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liberal, common peoples party
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nullification proclamation
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When Jackson stated that the federal government was ultimately more powerful than states rights and the Union should come first
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James Madison
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declared war in 1812 on British
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War Hawks
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members of congress that demanded war against Britain
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Transportation Revolution
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improved business, travel and communication in U.S
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John Deere
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Steel Plow
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Industrialization
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led to growth of cities
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telegraph
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What did Samuel Morse invent
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Treaty of Ghent
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What banned tariffs on imports from Britain
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Whig party
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against Jackson wanted to expand federal government
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Andrew Jackson
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Who caused inflation by moving funds to state bank that gave credit to settlers moving west
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panic of 1837
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privatized state banks
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Created to manage the removal of Native Americans to the West
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Industrial Revolution
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period of rapid growth during which machines became essential to industry
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potato blight
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What led the flood of Irish immigrants entering the United States in the mid-1840s
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forty niners
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gold seekers from America and abroad who migrated to California
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federal court
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How did the Cherokee people resist removal to Indian Territory
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Jacksonian Democracy
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Ordinary Americans were gaining a voice in government
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impressment
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Stopping American ships and taking deserted sailors back by force is called?
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Rush Bagot Treaty
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Drew the borders between the U.S and Canada
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Adams Onis Treaty
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Gave U.S would receive control of east Florida from Spain in return for U.S claims to what is now Texas
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James Monroe
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President blamed for panic of 1837
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Trancendentalist thinkers
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margeret Fuller and Henry David Thoreau
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Utopian Communities
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attempts to form perfect societies
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self reliance
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Focus of the writings of trancendentalist thinkers
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individualism and democracy
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The values Walt Whitmans poetry expressed
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Second Great Awakening
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Period of Christian renewal that began in the northeastern Unites States
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Temperance movement
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reform effort to urge people to use self discipline to stop drinking hard liquor
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Dorthea Dix
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spoke of the horrid conditions of prisions and inspired the building of sperate facilities for the mentally ill
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common school movement
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believed that all children learn in the same place regardless of their backgrounds
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Horace Mann
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contributed to the education reform movement and extended the length of the school year
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Thomas Gallaudet
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free American schools for the deaf and those with hearing impairments
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womens rights and slavery
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Reform movements during the Antebellum period were directed at which of the following
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19th amendment
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gave women right to vote
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Williams
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