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7th Grade
05/22/2007

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captalism
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person who invests money into a buisines
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factory system
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brough workers and mahcines together in one place to produce goods
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patent
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law protecting inventors right to own his idea
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turnpike
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road a person must pay to use
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water
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power source for machinery in early factories
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industrial revolution
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change from handmade goods to machine made
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Britian
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country in which the industrial revolution began
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Monroe Doctorine
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message warning European nations not to interfere in the Americas
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Eli Whitney
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invested cotton gin and developed interchangeable parts
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Robert Fulton
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launched the steamboat Clermont on the Hudson River
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secede
Definition
to withdraw
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states rights
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the idea that states should be able to limit the power of federal government
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Trail of Tears
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the forced march the Cherokees made from Georgia to Oklahoma
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suffrage
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the right to vote
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Sequoyah
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Cherokee who created the written alphabet
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John C Calhoun
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led the Souths fight against the high protective tariff in the 1830s
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forty-niners
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people who rushed to California in search of gold
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vigilantes
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people who take the law into their own hands
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rendevous
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summer meeting between mountain men and fur traders from back east
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Stephen Austin
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led the first American settles into Texas
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Brigham Young
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led the Mormoms to Utah
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Santa Anna
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Mexican dioctator, led Mexican army at the Alamo and during the Mexican War
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fur trade (mostly beaver)
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what mountain men made their money on
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Manifest Destiny
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the idea that the U.S was meant to expand to the Pacific Ocean
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49th Parallel
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where the US and Britian divided the Oregon Country
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Independence, MO
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city at which Oregon Trail began
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abolitionists
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people who wanted to end slavery
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immigrant
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people who enter the country to live there
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Samuel Morse
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invented the telegraph
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Fredrick Douglass
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best-known black abolitionists, published the North Star
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William Lloyd Garrison
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best-known white abolitionist, published The Liberator
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Underground Railroad
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organization of people who helped slaves escape to the North
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Harriet Tubman
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escaped slave, conductor on the Underground Railroad
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planters
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smallest group in Southern society, controlled Southern life
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New England (north)
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the most industrialized region in the US in the mid-1800s
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civil disobediance
Definition
disobeying an unfair law in protest
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Temperance Movement
Definition
movement to get people to give up alcohol
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The Seneca Falls Convention
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gathering of people to organize the womens rights movement
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transcendentalists
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people who stressed the relationship between humans and nature and the importance of the individual
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fugitive
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a runaway
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Henry Clay
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the Great Compromiser
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Jefferson Davis
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president of the Confederacy
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wrote Uncle Toms Cabin
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Stephen Douglass
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Democratic candidate for US Senate, debated Lincoln
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Dred Scott
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slave who sued for his freedom
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John Brown
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raided arsenal at Harpers Fairy to arm slaves and start a revolt
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popular sovereignty
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the idea that the people in a terriroty should decide if they want slavery or not
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Fort Sumter
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where the first shots of the Civil War were fired
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civil war
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a war fought between groups in the same country
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Republican
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political party formed to shop the spread of slavery in the WEst, Lincolns political party
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South Carolina
Definition
the first state to secede
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emancipate
Definition
to set free
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casualty
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a person killed or wounded in war
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Robert E. Lee
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Lincolns 1st choice to command the Union army
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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Confederate General, stood firm, killed by his own men
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Robert E. Lee
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general in command of all Confederate forces
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total war
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strategy in which the enemy's resources are destroyed
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Gettysburg
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battle that was the turning point in the war
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Vicksburg
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battle at which Grant won control of the Mississipi River
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Appomatox Courthouse
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where Lee surrendered to the Grant ending the Civil War
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black codes
Definition
laws that severely limited the rights of freedmen
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segregation
Definition
seperation of people by race in public areas
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Supreme Court decision that ruled segregation was legal if the facilities were equal for both races
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Ku Klux Klan
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group that used violence to keep freedman from gaining power
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Jim Crow laws
Definition
laws that forces segrestion
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Freedman Bureau
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group that provided care to former slaves during Reconsrtuction in the South
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helped pick seeds from the cotton
Definition
what did the cotton gin do?
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Andrew Jackson conquered it and then bought it from Spain for 5 million dolla
Definition
How did US come to own Florida?
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moved to cities to get factory jobs
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Why did people leave their farms during the Industrial Revolution?
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they went down
Definition
What happened to the price of goods as more produced faster and faster?
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it raised the price of imports so people would buy American imports
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Why did Northern like the high protective tariff?
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Texas, Mexican Secession, and Gasston Purchase
Definition
What 3 pieces of land did we get from Mexico?
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they has sleek hulls and tall sails
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WHy were clipper ships so fast?
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a)cant gather in groups

b)cant leave property without a pass

c)cant learn to read or write
Definition
What limits were imposed on Southern blacks by slave codes?
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a)threatened the future of Americans

b)taking jobs from real citizens
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Why didnt Nativists like immigrants?
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They raised the imports that they bought when they sold their crops to Europe.
Definition
Why did Southerners dislike the high protective tariff?
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The Gadsen Purchase, Mexican Cession, and Texas
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What three pieces of land did we get from Mexico?
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They had large sails and narrow hulls.
Definition
Why were clipper ships so fast?
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1) Can't Gather in groups.

2) Can't learn how to read or write.

3) Can't leave owner's land without a pass.
Definition
What limits were imposed on southern blacks by slave codes?
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1) They work for low pay (took their jobs)

2) Brought crime and disease into the cities.
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Why didnt nativists like immigrants.
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Ireland and Germany
Definition
From what two countries did most immigrants come from in the 1840's and 1850's?
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1) Susan B. Anthony

2) Lucretia Mott

3) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Definition
List the women who organized the women's right movement.
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The americans began creating their own styles and ideas.
Definition
How did American Art Styles change in the early 1800's?
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It didnt show a true picture of slavery.
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Why were the Southerners angry about Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president.
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Why did the southern states secede?
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1) Missouri- slave state

2) Maine- free state

3) no slaves above the 30' line
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What were the provisions of the Missouri Compromise?
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1) More Railroads
2) Abundent Resources
3) More Ships
4) More Industry
5) Better Banking System
6) Larger Population
7) Abraham Lincoln
Definition
What advantages did the north have in the civil war?
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People started to make steel ships.
Definition
How did the battle between the Merrimac and Moniter change naval warfare?
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The Confederate slaves only!!!
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Which slaves did Lincoln intend to set free with the Emancipation Proclamation?
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1) Small population
2) Produced little food
3) Little industry
4) Few railroads
Definition
What were the South's disadvantages during the Civil War?
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To help preserve the union
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What was Lincoln's main goal in fighting the Civil War?
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Lincoln couldn't find a general who could beat Lee.
Definition
Why was the North losing the first half of the civil war?
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A ceremony dedicated to a place where a battle happened.
Definition
What was the occasion of the Gettysburg Address?
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13- Slaves were free

14- Freed slaves were now citizens

15- Freed slaves had the right to vote.
Definition
What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments do?
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