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Unit 4 & 5 Key Terms
Key Terms for APUSH
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11th Grade
02/28/2013

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Henry Clay
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US official that came up with many of the treaties that kept the Nation together
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Indian Removal Act
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The act that sent Native Americans too the West
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Know Nothings
Definition
A political party who were nativist
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Nulification Crisis
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When S.C. wanted to Nulify Tariffs
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2nd Great Awakening
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a protostant reviaval in the early 19th century
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Spoils System
Definition
When a political party givdes office for votes
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Temperance
Definition
Social movement urging pohibition of alcohol
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Whigs
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political party who opposed Andrew Jackson
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Dorothea Dix
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Woman who wanted rights for the mentally ill
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Henry David Thoreau
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an american author and abolistionist
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Jacksonian Democracy
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wanted greater democracy for the common man
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Lowell System
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A production modle
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Panics of 1819, 1837, 1857
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financiall problems in the US
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Seneca Falls Convention
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Early womans rights convention
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Susan B. Anthony
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introduced womans suferage to the US
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Trail of Tears
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the name given to the forced relocation of natives following the indian removal act.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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a prominent American abolishionist and social reformer.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Led the Transcendentalist movement
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Horace Mann
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reformed the american education system
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John C. Calhoun
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an American politician and Andrew Jackson's Vice president
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Lucretia Mott
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womans rights activist and social reformer
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Declaration of Sentiments
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a signed Declaration from the Seneca Falls Convention
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Sujourner Truth
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African-American abolitionist and womans rights activist
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Tariff of abominations
Definition
a Tariff used to protect the Industry of the Northern United states
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Transcendentalism
Definition
a movement to protest the state of the culture in the US
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Utopian Community's
Definition
wanted a perfect world
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"Bleeding Kansas"
Definition
Violent confrontations between abolitionist and slave owners
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Stephen Douglas
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Debated Lincoln and ran against him for presidency.
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Allowed freed slaves to be sent back to the south after escaping to the north
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Anti-Slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Border States
Definition
slave states that did not declare secession from the US
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Emancipation Proclamation
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an order that said that all slaves in all confederate states were forever free.
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Gettysburg Adress
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a speech deliverd by Abraham Lincoln after the battle of Gettysburg
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New York City Draft Riots
Definition
Violent disturbances that protested the draft of American men the fight in the civil war
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Vicksburg
Definition
final major battle in mississippi
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15th Amendment
Definition
gives all men the right to vote
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
compromise that settled the 1876 election
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Ku Klux Klan
Definition
White Supremacist group who terrorized African-Americans after the civil war
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Radical Republicans
Definition
Strongly disliked slavery, didnt trust e-confederates, and wanted harsh policies to punish the south
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Harper's Ferry Raid
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an attempt by John Brown to start a armed slave revolt
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Dred Scott v. Sanford
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The government had no power to regulate slavery in its territories and that they could not protect those of African-American Decent.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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allowed settlers to determine through popular sovereignty weather they would be slave states.
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Antietam
Definition
Bloodiest single day battle in american history
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Confederate States of America
Definition
a government set up by the states that succeeded from the United States
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Fort Sumter
Definition
the first battle of the American Civil War
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Ulysses S. Grant
Definition
Lincolns most trusted general, future president of the United States
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Sherman's march to the sea
Definition
General Sherman carved a 60 mile path from atlanta to Savannah destroying everything
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13th Amendment
Definition
outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude
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Carpetbaggers
Definition
a term for northerners who moved to the south during the reconstruction era
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Freedman's Bureau
Definition
developed to aid African-Americans after the transition from slavery
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Plessy V. Ferguson
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upheld the constitutionality of segregation in public facilities
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Scalawags
Definition
southern whites who supported reconstrucion and the republican party
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Compromise of 1850
Definition
diffused a four year confrontation between slave states and free states over the territories gained by the Mexican American war
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Free-Soil Party
Definition
opposed western expansion of slavery
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Popular Sovereignty
Definition
the people are the source of power and make decsions
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Appomattox
Definition
Where General Robert E. Lee formally surendered to the Union army.
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Jefferson Davis
Definition
president of the Confederate States of America during the civil war
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Gettysburg
Definition
The largest number of casuilties and turning point of the civil war.
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Robert E. Lee
Definition
Confederate General who later surrendered to the Union Army
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14th Amendment
Definition
let African-American's become citizens of the united states
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Civil Rights Act of 1877
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intended to protect the rights of African-Americans after the civil war
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Jim Crow Laws
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allowed racial segregation in all public facilities in the south
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Black Codes
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limited civil rights, and civil liberties of African-Americans
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Sharecroppers
Definition
landowner allowed a tennant to live on his land in exchange for a percentage of his crops.
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