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| How does a region's geography impact its economic structure? |
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| Resources and climate have an effect on the economy |
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| How did manifest destiny influence westward expansion? |
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| People were thinking that the land was given to them by god and they were to take it |
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got it from deal made with France |
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| Push factors influencing immigration to the US: |
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(things that make you leave the country)
famine, war, religious persuction |
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Pull factors influenced immigration to the US:
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(factors that make you move to a new country)
land, freedom, jobs, better future for kids |
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| President that stood for the common man: |
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| How did Andrew Jackson increase participartion in the govt.? |
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| Coomon men gained the right to vote known as the "Jackson Democracy" and also "Universal White Man Sufferage" |
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- The firing on Fort Sumter, South Carolina that began the war
- The first Battle of Manassar (Bull Run) was the first major battle
- THe signing of the Emancipation Proclamation made "freeing the slaves" the new focus of the war. Mnay freed slaves joined the Union Army
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What was the spoils system?
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| A system whereby govt. jobs are given to political supporters |
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| What was the effect of the spoils systems? |
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| it produced a lot of concern b/c the appointed people had a lot of power even thoguh they were not elected into office and they were not always the best people for those positions |
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| How did westward expansion change political parties and elections? |
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| Campaigns used speeches, train travel, songs, slogans, buttons, campain rallies, etc. |
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| Why did Andrew Jackson veto the National Bank? |
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| He thought it supported the wealthy |
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| WHy did andrew Jackson prove in the nullification crisis with South Carolina? |
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- Nation Govt. stronger than state govt.
- Keeping the unuion together was important
- Willing to use military power to keep the union whole
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| How did industrialization impact the lives of the working class? |
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| People moved to larger town & cities where jobs were available and moved away from farms |
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| What were the characteristics of industrialization in the early 1800s? |
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- unsafe working conditions
- child labor
- long hours for low wages
- "factory system"
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| How did the social reform movements attempt to change American society? |
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- abolotionism
- Women's rights-sufferage(rights)
- Temperance movement- ban alcohol
- Public education
- helping people with disablilities
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| How did new tech. (steamboats, railroads, etc...) contribute to the North, South, and West economic interdepence? |
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| It made it easier to transport goods from one place to another because each region depended on the other for trading and supplies |
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| Remember events in order chronologically: |
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Mexican American War- 1848
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act- 1854
Bleeding Kansas- 1856
Dred Scott- 1857 |
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| What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott decision? |
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a) Dred Scott was a slave and therefore could not sue in court
b) The Missouri Compromise was the unconstitutional(against the constitutuion) since it violated a slave owner's right to property |
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| Def of popular sovereignty and example: |
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Def: Allow people to decide
Ex.: Kansas- Nebraska Act allow voters to decide if it would be a free or slave state |
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| What did the southern states do as a result of the Election of 1860? |
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- More industrial power
- greater population
- secured govt.
- bigger and better railroads
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| Less experienced generals |
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| Strengths of the Confederacy: |
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| More experienced generals |
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Weakness of the Confederacy:
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- Had to create a govt. while at war
- Difficulty transporting supplies
- Weaker economy
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| What was the importance of Fort Sumter? |
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| Beginning of the Civil War |
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| What battle signaled a turning point in the Civil War? |
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| What did Abraham Lincoln do to prevent MD from seceding from the Union? |
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| Suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus and jailed the people who suppored slavery & the Confederacy |
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| What was the importance of the Union victory in Vicksburg? |
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| The Union gained control of the Mississippi river and were able to divide the Confederate forces in two. That would limit supplies for the Confederate forces. |
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| Battles in Chronological order: |
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- First Battle of Bull Run
- Antietam
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Serman's March to the Sea
- Appomattox
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| Emancipation Proclamation: |
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the proclamation issued by President
Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the
slaves in those territories still in rebellion
against the Union |
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| What signaled the end of the Civil War? |
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| General Lee's surrender at the Appomattox courthouse |
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| 3 goals of reconstruction: |
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- Readmit southern states to the Union & established govt.
- Rebuild the Southern Economy
- Expand & protect the rights of African Americans
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How did tenant farming and share cropping influence the lives of African Americans after the war?
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Share cropping and tenant farming cheated African Americans out of making economic's gains
Oftentimes, former slaves did not understand the signed controls that they entered into b/c they couldn't read or write |
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| 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments: |
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13th: Banned slavery (1865)
14th: Born in the U.S. are citizens (1868)
15th: All men could vote regardless of race (1870)
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| What was the pupose of groups like the Ku Klux Klan? |
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| To stop African Americans from having more rights |
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| What was the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau? |
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To assist former slaves
(president established this agency)
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| How did Reconstruction limit the rights of African Americans? |
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- KKK
- Black Codes
- Rights were not protected
- Share Cropping
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How did Reconstruction expand the rights of African Americans?
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- 13th, 14th,15th amendments
- Freedmen's Bureau
- African Americans elected to public office
- Education for blacks
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| What was the importance of the Election of 1876? |
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| Ended Reconstruction and African Americans would see a loss of the newly gained rights. |
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