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APUSH Final Sweeney
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11th Grade
01/15/2011

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Election 1824
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John Quincy Adams wins after the Corrupt Bargain when Henry Clay helps swing the House in support of JQA
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Election 1828
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Andrew Jackson wins. First Democratic Prez
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Jacksonian Era Democracy
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Included principles of extended suffrage, patronage, and opposed national bank
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Nullification Crisis
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Sectional Crisis during Jackson's presidency. This ordinance declared that federal tariffs of 1828 and 32 were unconstitutional and could therefore be voided by the state (South Carolina)
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Webster Hayne Debate
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famous debate concerning tariffs. Hayne threatens to secede because he was for nullification
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Indian Removal Act of 1830
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Jackson demanding the removal of native americans
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Jackson's War on the Bank
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Jackson "kills" the national bank with the help of Taney
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Election 1832
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Andrew Jackson defeats Henry Clay
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Whig Party
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Second Party System. Favored internal improvements. Later dies in 1856 when they refuse to take a stand on slavery
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2nd Great Awakening
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Restoration period. Church membership soared... Mormons, Baptist, Shakers. General Reform -- temperance, women rights, etc. Main leader -- Finney
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Reform Movement
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Temperance, women rights, more liberal views, education, etc.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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Slave rebellion in Virginia that killed about 60 white men before being put down
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Slave Codes
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laws in each state that defined status of slaves
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Texas Revolution
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was a military conflict between Mexico and settlers in the Texas portion of the Mexican state Coahuila y Tejas. The war lasted from October 2, 1835 to April 21, 1836. Led by Stephen Austin
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Annexation of Texas
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waited 9 years to admit as state. led to war with Mexico
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Election 1844
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Polk wins on referendum of annexation
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Oregon -- 54 40 or fight
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British and America made claims for the territory and ultimately split up the land
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Mexican War
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War with Mexico over Texas. Border dispute -- we invaded but pretended it was our land
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Wilmont Proviso
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would have banned slavery in any territory gained from Mexico
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Compromise of 1850
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5 bills passed by Douglas and Clay.. Cali = free, slave trade abolished in DC, Utah popular sovereignty, fugitive slave
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Fugitive Slave Act
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was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. This was one of the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a 'slave power conspiracy'. It declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Repealed Missouri Compromise. Douglas was trying to reunite the Democratic Party
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Lecompton Constitution
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attempted PRO SLAVERY constitution for Kansas
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Dred Scott Case
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was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants,[2] whether or not they were slaves) were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens
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Election of 1860
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Lincoln wins (Republican). Led to first wave of secession
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1st wave of secession
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left because of election of Lincoln (SC, Miss, FL, Alabama, GA, LA, TX)
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2nd wave of secession
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occured after Fort Sumner (VA, Ark, Tenn, NC)
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Crittenden Compromise
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proposal that would have resolved the secession crisis had Lincoln passed it
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Battle of Antietam
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first major battle of Civil War fought in North. Draw, but more of a Union win because Lee was forced to retreat
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Emancipation Proclamation
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an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War under his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced. It made slavery a main issue in the war
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Election of 1864
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Lincoln defeats McClellan
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Presidential vs. Congressional Reconstruction
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Andrew Johnson believed Reconstruction was complete, but Congress refused to accept such lenient terms
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Black Codes
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were unofficial laws put in place in the United States to limit the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks.
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Election of 1876
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Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Sam Tilden. Tilden won popular vote. Hayes had 1 more electoral vote. In return for the Democrats' acquiescence in Hayes's election, the Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
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Compromise of 1877
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refers to a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election and ended Congressional ("Radical") Reconstruction. Through it, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops that were propping up Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana
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