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Undergraduate 1
11/09/2008

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"midnight appointments"
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Adams appointed people to assigned positions in the judicial branch
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Embargo Act
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Prohibited American ships from leaving the US for any foreign port
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Marbury vs. Madison
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Judicial Review
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Tecumseh and the Prophet
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Tecumseh warned his brother not to fight the whites, he disobeyed and was defeated, Battle of Tippicanoe
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Lewis and Clark
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explorers of the west, T. Jefferson sent them to French territory
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2nd great awakening
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traditional religion made a comeback
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John Marshall
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Chief justice, Virginia lawyer
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Louisiana Purchase
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Jefferson purchased the French territory for 3 cents an acre
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Sacajawea
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Indian woman translator
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Aaron Burr
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politician accused of treason that killed Hamilton in a duel
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Force Act
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gave gov't power to enforce Embargo Act
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non-intercourse act
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reopened trade with all nations but Britain and France
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Macon's Bill No.2
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reopened trade with Britain and France
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W.H. Harrison
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implemented the ultimatim given by Jefferson to the remove Indians
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Battle of Tippicanoe
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Harrison provoked a fight between 2 Indian tribes and it ended fatal
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war hawks
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politicians who favored war
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Henry Clay
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warhawk and leader of the Whig party, supporter of the American system
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Andrew Jackson
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opposed the Nat'l bank
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Hartford convention
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N. England states met and designed amendments to protect N.E. from the south and west
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Treaty of Ghent
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no interference from Britain, restores tribes to the west
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Rush Baggot Agreement
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free trade with England
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camp meeting
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revival retreat
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Lowell system
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textile factory system that employed mainly young women, cheap labor, long hours
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John C. Calhoun
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internal improvements bill, vetoed by madison
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James F. Cooper
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first great American novelist inspired by nature
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Herman Melville
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Moby Dick, greatest American novelist of his era
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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transcendentalist, devoted to teaching this philosophy
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Henry David Thoreau
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civil disobedience, public refusal to pay for unjust laws
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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essayist
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transcendentalists
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enviromental movement, humanity and nature were essential
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Brook Farm
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self realization experimental community, burned down
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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writer and resident of Brook Farm that wrote about the disastrous consequences fo the experiment on the individuals
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Onieda community
Definition
free love
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Shakers
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complete celibacy, society free from disorder
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Charles Finney
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each individual could achieve salvation and not depend on God, Revivalist
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Temperance movement
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crusade against drunkeness
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Phrenology
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the shape of a persons skull described character and intelligence
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Horace Mann
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founded teachers college, education is the only way to protect democracy
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Dorothy Dix
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began Nat'l movement fo new methods of treating the mentally ill
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Grimke sisters
Definition
active abolitionists
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Mott, Stanton, Anthony
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organized Seneca Falls convention, feminists
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Seneca Falls
Definition
raise questions of women rights
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Whig Party
Definition
the party was formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party
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Tredegar Iron works
Definition
constructed furnaces and rolling mills
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JDB DeBow
Definition
review consisted of pro and anti slavery, publisher and statistician
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Nativism
Definition
anti-immigrants.
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Nat Turner rebellion
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word got out and was suppressed and slaves were killed
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Gabriel Prosser
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led slave revolt, slaves sold out and revolt was suppressed slaves were killed
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"know-nothing" party
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nativists party, American Party
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Webster-Ashburton treaty
Definition
set boundaries between Maine and Canada
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Peaceful Coersion act
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act to try to avoid war
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Talmadge amendment
Definition
Missouri coming into union as a free state
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Adams Onis treaty
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established boundaries between Spain territory and the US
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Monroe Doctrine
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European powers were to no longer interfere with new free states
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nullification crisis
Definition
the attempt made by a state to nullify a federal law
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panic of 1819, 1837
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the nat'l bank collapsed
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Eaton affair
Definition
scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet
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Indian Removal act
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forcibly remove Indians so Americans could migrate and colonize
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Worcester vs Georgia
Definition
case in which the United States Supreme Court held that Cherokee Native Americans were entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments which would infringe on the tribe's sovereignty. It is considered one of the most influential decisions in law dealing with Native Americans.
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Gibbons vs Ogden
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case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
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Denmark Vesey
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purchased freedom, tried to lead slave revolt but word leaked and he was executed
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Era of good feeling
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after the war of 1812 the nation was politically united behind the democratic-republican party
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Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
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British fourth-rate warship Leopard attacked and boarded the American frigate Chesapeake
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tariff of abominations
Definition
protect industry in the northern United States from having to compete with European goods by increasing the prices
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Seminole war
Definition
were three conflicts in Florida between various groups of Native Americans
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American Renaissance
Definition
renewed national self-confidence
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Sojourner Truth
Definition
American abolitionist and women's rights activist
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