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History Exam
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8th Grade
06/01/2009

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Jim Crow
Definition
The laws that separated blacks and whites from everything like church, school, and busses.
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Industrial Revolution
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Where standardization changed everything because they made factories and everything was mass produced, and villages turned to towns then to even cities.
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Standardization
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The making of inter changeable parts so things didn’t have to be remade
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Eli Whitney
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He invented the cotton gin, and interchangeable parts.
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Steam Power
Definition
use of steam to create power or movement.
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Water Power
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Turned wheels and produced energy for factories
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Cotton Gin
Definition
Was invented by Eli Whitney and it helped improve the cotton industry, it cleaned the cotton so people didn’t have to do it.
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Trail of Tears
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The journey from where the Indians were to the territory. 1/3 of the Indians perished on the trail
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Soil Exhaustion
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Is where soil is overuse of fertile soil
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Tariffs
Definition
made imported goods more expensive than American-made goods
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Stonewall Jackson
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He was the general for the south after Robert E Lee and he was shot down by his own men
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Leader of the Union Army
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Lowell Girls
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The girls taken from farms to work in factories to make money for their parents, and if something happened to them the would just be sent home (even if their arm was cut off)
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Sequoya
Definition
created an alphabet for the Cherokee Indians, he created a newspaper , and taught the Indians their own language.
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Cotton Kingdom
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Cotton Kingdom-cotton Gin, a boom in the cotton industry
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Henry Clay
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Proposed the Missouri Compromise and ran for president against Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams
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Sectionalism
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Loyalty to local interests, Northeast had manufacturing and trade West had cheap land and good transportation South had slaves.
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Jefferson Davis
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Was the President of the Confederate States of America for the whole time that they existed
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Missouri Compromise
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The making of Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state, proposed by Henry Clay too maintain balance of Slave and Free states.
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Abraham Lincoln
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President during the civil war, The result of his side winning was his assassination at the Ford Theatre
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Andrew Jackson
Definition
He was thought of as an overcomer because he was raised in poverty. He gave the Indian removal act the “pass” or the “go ahead”.
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Cherokee Nation
Definition
The Cherokee who learned to read and write and created their own language and constitution.
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Indian Removal Act
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The Indian removal act made all of the Indians on the east of the Mississippi to the Oklahoma territory.
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General Sherman
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Served under Ulysses S. Grant, and led the total war or the march to the sea
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Robert E. Lee
Definition
Leader of the Confederates Army
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Treatment of women
Definition
Women had no voting rights and they had their own jobs and even if they could do a “man’s job” better than him she wouldn’t get the job
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Reconstuction
Definition
The time after the war when the south was rebuilding damage and the North was excelling in Industry growth
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Definition
The supreme court made the decision to have the separate but equal law.
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Assimilation
Definition
It is the process by which individuals or groups are absorbed into and adopt the dominant culture and society of another group.
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