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Crazy Horse defeated?

General Custer at his last stand

Nucleus of the Library of Congress?

Thomas Jefferson's personal collection after fire of 1812

Louise May Alcott write about?

Children's book Little women

Who started the Woman's rights movement?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony

Where was the second awakening held at?

New York Burned-over District & camp meetings in new frontier

What did the Battle of Antietam cause?

Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation

Triangular trade (slaves) - what countries/regions were involved?

Caribbean, Europe or New England, West Africa

Hudson River School, who painted birds and plants?

Audubon

What happened to Metacom (King Philip)?

Killed by a praying Indian, head cut off, body on display

Webster of dictionary fame, what was his occupation

Teacher

"it is the rape of virgin territories" (referred to Kansas)

Charles Sumner

The Second Party system was

The Democrats and the Whigs

The Great Awakening leader

George Whitefield (Minister)

Mother Ann Lee

Preached to the public and led the Shaker church at a time when few women were religious leaders.

The burned-over regions

regions of New York where religious revivals and the new religious movements of the Second Great Awakening took place

Result of the Bacon's rebellion

Nathaniel Bacon led former indentured servants, in burning Jamestown to show their disapproval of the colony's Indian policy.
2) the turning point from the use indentured servants to the use of African slave labor.

"My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever"

Chief Joseph's Surrender speech

Who was the Indian from Lakota (sioux)

Crazy Horse

Who was one of the premiere scientists

Benjamin Franklin

John Calhoun

Democrat, believed in state's rights, limited federal government, Nullification, Pro Slavery, urged South Carolina's secession from the Union

The Liberator abolition newspaper was run by

William Lloyd Garrison

Dorothea Dix

American activist/Nurse on behalf of the mentally ill

Significance of Election of 1828

The election ushered Jacksonian Democracy. A new two-party system emerged.

Significance of Election of 1876

One of the closest presidential elections and ended the Reconstruction.

Significance of Election of 1840

Use of modern campaign strategies. Harrison was the first Whig Party member to become president.

Compromise of 1877

unwritten deal that settled presidential election. The federal government pulled the last troops out of the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.

Dunmore's Proclamation

Declared martial law and promise freedom for slaves

Treaty of Ghent

Peace treaty ended war of 1812 USA and Great Britain

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

ended mexican american war 1848

The Battle of San Jacinto

Texas' war for independence from Mexico, In exchange for his freedom, Santa Anna signed a treaty recognizing Texas' independence.

Dred Scott Case implications

Slavery bigger topic. The Missouri Compromise is officially nullified. States such as Minnesota should be able to choose whether they want to be a free or slave state.

Nat Turner rebellion

Nat Turner led slave rebel

Bartolome de las Casas

the first to expose the oppression of Indians and call for the abolition of slavery there.

Why Sir Walter Scott writings were important to the south

He romanticized war through the middle ages.

Best authors of the 19th century

Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thomas Jefferson was influenced

(mostly plagiarized) by John Locke's writings.

Triangular Trade route

1st Europeans took goods, weapons, liquor to Africa in exchange for slaves; 2nd, slaves to America; and 3rd, exported to Europe sugar, rum, cotton, and tobacco.

Acts order

1764 sugar act, 1765 Stamp act, Townsend acts, 1773 tea act

Andrew Johnson Reconstruction

White South regulated the transition from slavery to freedom

Lincoln Reconstruction

if 10% of the state voted union, they were allowed back in.

What contributed to 2nd Awakening

Literal meaning of bible vs interpretation. Injustices such as the Temperance , Women's suffrage and Abolitionist Movement.

Star Spangled Banner inspired by

War of 1812 where British relentlessly attacked Baltimore's Fort McHenry.

Wilmot Proviso

proposed to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.

Route of Lewis & Clark

St. Louis, Missouri, to the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon.

The Redeemers

in the South during the Reconstruction era, sought to overthrow the Radical Republican coalition of Freedmen, carpetbaggers and Scalawags

Phyllis Wheatley

first african american women poet

Who funded the railroad

Federal government through land grants.

Free blacks fought with

Jackson in War of 1812

Sarah Grimkà and Angelina GrimkÃ

abolitionist and women's movement

What is Manifest destiny

belief that the expansion of the US was God's will

King Cotton

slogan used by southerners to support succession

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

Ben Franklin

Popular form of entertainment in antebellum period

minstrel shows

Antebellum means

"before the war."

Compromise of 1850

called for the admission of California as a free state; and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Law

Denmark Vesey

African Americans leader in Charleston, South Carolina. Convicted of being the ringleader of "the rising," a potential slave revolt. He was executed.

Hudson River School

Founder Thomas Cole. Romanticized landscape paintings.

Republican Motherhood

women must be schooled in virtue so they could teach their children.

Gag Rule

forbidding the House from considering anti-slavery petitions.

Iroquis Nation

Native American confederacy nations were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca.

Leading killer of Native American

Eurasian diseases such as influenza, bubonic plague and pneumonic plagues, yellow fever, smallpox, and malaria.

Gettysburg Address

By Lincoln at a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.

Transcendentalism leaders

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Amos Bronson Alcott.

1st coeducational school

Oberlin College in Ohio

Irish settlers in comparison to the Chinese

The chinese were treated worse but were better workers.

Why Napoleon sold territory to the U.S.

because of the rebellion in Haiti

Why did we need the Bill of Rights

to protect citizens from excess government power.

Homestead Act

allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land.

What is 'Common Sense' by Thomas Paine about

pamphlet advocating independence from Great Britain

Which colony offered the most religious toleration

Pennsylvania

Land Ordinances

system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west.

15 Amendment

granted African American men the right to vote

4 slave states did NOT leave the Union

Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland. (MiKe MaDe)

How did women's role in society change after the American Revolution

Republican Motherhood: to raise children to be a good patriots

Common medical procedure in the 1700's

amputations, surgeries without anesthesia

Coercive Act?

known in America as the Intolerable Acts, were passed by the British Parliament in 1774 as punishment for the destruction wrought during the Boston Tea Party

5 Coercive/Intolerable acts?

Boston Port Act
Massachusetts Government Act
Administration of Justice Act
Quartering Act
Quebec Act

Tecumseh

Native American leader who receive helped from Canada to fight against settlers moving West

War of 1812

War of 1812. Great Britain was in conflict with Napoleon Bonaparte's France. In an attempt to cut off supplies from reaching the enemy, both sides attempted to block the United States from trading with the other.

German immigrants and Irish immigrants settled?

Irish settled in East Coast Cities and German settled in rural Midwest

What made Irish Immigrate?

Potato Famine

German Immigrants

• Destination: Pennsylvania
• Class: Middle (coming with a little money in comparison to Irish and Italians)
• Occupation: Farmers, Craftsmen
• Well-Educated

German Immigrants called?

Duecth

Natavists

oppose immigration into the United States and against Catholics

Irish Immigrants

largest group to immigrate( Germans come close in 2nd place), many were skilled workers

Missouri Compromise

Missouri wanted to join the union as a slave state, tipping the balance between free and slave states in Congress. Congress added both Missouri (a slave state) and Maine (a free state). New slavery was banned in all the states, though any existing slaves were still the property of their owners.

Kansas Nebraska Act?

replaced Missouri Compromise and led to Bleeding Kansas incident

Chief Joseph

Leader od Nez Perce, a group of indians. He agreed to relocate but after members of his tribe killed a group of settlers, he tried to flee to Canada. Along the way they fought several battles with the pursuing U.S. Army.

" I am weak, surrendering..."

Chief Joseph spoke these words when they finally surrendered.

Why did Jefferson call his Election the "Revolution of 1800"

it marked the first time power passed from one party to another. He promised to govern as the Founders intended, on decentralized government and trust in the people.

Marbury v Madison

Supreme Court case which decided judicial Review

North West Ordinance

By the Confederation Congress, protected civil liberties and outlawed slavery in the new territories.

Adams-Onis treaty

Got Florida from Spain for $5million in exchange for Spain getting territory in Texas

American System proposed by Henry Clay(Whig)

national bank, protective tariffs, and federal subsidies for internal improvements (ex: roads, canals)

The Dial

Transcendentalist newspaper edited by Margaret Fuller

Don Juan de Onate

a conquistador from New Spain who defeated the Pueblos and helped the Spanish establish Santa Fe in 1610.

What caused Pueblo's Revolt

Forced Labor and Religion by the Spanish converting the Pueblo Indians to Christianity

Pueblo Revolt?

Pope, a Native religious leader, killed hundreds and forced the Spanish to flee. When they returned they gave more freedoms to the indians.

Era of Good Feelings

A name for President Monroe's two terms, a period of strong nationalism, economic growth, & territorial expansion. Since the Federalist party dissolved after the War of 1812, there was only one political party.

The Prophet, aka. Tenskwatawa

Indian of the Shawnee people, who worked with his brother Tecumseh to create a pan-tribal confederacy to resist U.S. encroachment.