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1836 - 1870

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Captured while negotiating under the white flag of truce   Osceola   Routed by troops   Seminoles   Used troops to route Seminoles   Taylor  
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Published Concord Hymn   Emerson   States "By the rude bridge that arched the flood/Their flag to April's breeze unfurled/Here once the embattled farmers stood/And fired the shot heard round the world   The Concord Hymn   Applied for a patent on his telegraph machine   Morse  
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Forced to move to the west of their home   Cherokee   Indians were forced to leave this state   Georgia   Indians forced to move west of this river   Mississippi  
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Path from Georgia to the west of the Mississippi   Trail of Tears   Tocqueville's book on his expeirience in the Americas   Democracy in America   Published Democracy in America   Tocqueville  
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The first co-ed college and the first college to admit blacks   Oberlin College   Where is Oberlin College located?   Ohio   Invents process for vulcanizing rubber   Goodyear  
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This war ends with boundary decided between two territories   Aroostook War   The boundary decided during the Aroostook War   The boundary between Maine and New Brunswick   These two people use a technique developed by Frenchman, Louise Daguerre to make first photograph   Morse and Draper  
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Supposedly invented the rules for baseball in New York   Doubleday   Where the rules for baseball were supposedly invented   Cooperstown, NY   Elected the nation's 9th President and the 1st Whig President   Harrison  
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Dies a month into his presidency after contracting pneumonia after giving a two hour long inaugural speech   Harrison   First Vice President to become President on death of Chief Executive   Tyler   Set up by George Ripley as a eutopian community at West Roxbury, Massachussetts   Brook Farm  
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Ajusts Maine-New Brunswick border and settled US-Canadian border   Webster-Ashburton Treaty   Where the US Canadian border is   Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods   Explored far west   Fremont and Carson  
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Settlement of Oregon Territory begins with this trail, begins at Independence, Missouri and ends in the Willamette Valley   Oregon Trail   Invented the sewing machine   Howe   Took over the American Museum in New York, filling it with relics and living exhibits   Barnum  
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Published memorial to legislature of Massachussetts, an indictment of state treatment of the insane.   Dix   Gives public demonstration of his telegraph with the memorable message, "What hath God wrought." It traveled from Washington to Baltimore.   Morse   The 11th US President, 1st Dark Horse candidate behind the slogan, "54 40 or fight!" in reference to the northern boundary of the Oregon Territory.   Polk  
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Kills Mormon Joseph Smith for advocating polygamy   A mob in Carthage, Illinois   The first President to get married while in office   Tyler   Tyler's wife   Julia Gardiner  
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Writes that it's nations manifest destiny to extend its borders to the west coast in accordance with the will of God   O'Sullivan   Annexed as a State   Texas   Began his two year experiment living on the shores of Walden Pond on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published Walden in 1854.   Thoreau  
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The US goes to war with Mexico with troops under _______________   Zachary Taylor   Would have set up $2 million for the settlement of border disputes with Mexico and kept slavery out of any territory acquired by war with Mexico, failed in the House of Representatives named for David Wilmot   Proviso   Uses ether as an anesthetic at Harvard Medical School   Morton  
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Routes Mexican forces under Santa Anna at Buena Vista   Taylor   Defeats Mexican at Vera Cruz and later occupies Mexico City unopposed   Scott   Who was on the five cent stamp?   Franklin  
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Who is on the ten cent stamp?   Washington   Settled in Salt Lake City, Utah   Mormons   Head of the Mormons when they settled in Salt Lake City, Utah   Young  
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Was paid $100 for Oh Suzanna   Stephen Foster   How old was Stephen Foster when he wrote Oh Suzanna   21   Ended the Mexican War and gave the US most of the present day Southwest   The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo  
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Nations 12th President   Taylor   Founded at Oneida, New York   Industrial Utopia   Founded Industrial Utopia   Noyes  
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Discovered gold at Sutter's Mill, leading to the California Gold Rush the next year   Marshall   Held a convention for women's rights at Seneca Falls, NY   Mott and Cady   Saved from disaster in Salt Lake, as seagulls come and eat swarming crickets   Mormons  
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Had been jailed for one night for refusing to pay taxes which go to support slavery and the War with Mexico and published his essay, Civil Disobedience   Thoreau   Becomes first female physician   Blackwell   Nations 13th President after the death of Zachary Taylor and the last Whig President   Fillmore  
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Calls for federal jurisdiction over runaway slaves and prompt return of slaves to southern owners   The fugitive slave law   Critics warned him that his support for the compromise of 1850 may affect his chance for the Presidency. He says, "I'd rather be right than President."   Clay   California admitted as a free state, New Mexico and Utah territories have no restriction on slavery   Clay's compromise of 1850  
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Patents updated version of sewing machine   Singer   Published Uncle Tom's Cabin, which becomes the fastest selling book at that time   Stowe   Defeats Scott to become 14th President   Pierce  
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Opens Japan to foreign trade   Perry   Negotiated by US minister to Mexico, James Gadsen add nearly 30,000 square miles of territory in the southern parts of present day Arizona and New Mexico   Gadsden Purchase   Created at meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin   Republican Party  
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Allowed settlers in the territories to choose between free soil and slavery   Kansas-Nebraska Act   Drew up the Ostend Manfesto   Buchanan, Mason, Soule   Secretary of state that requested the Ostend Manafesto   Marcy  
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States that the US should take Cuba if Spain refuses to sell   Secret Declaration   Published Leaves of grass   Whitman   First Republican candidate for president   Fremont  
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nation 15th president   Buchanan   Massachusetts Sentor who is beaten unconcious at his desk   Sumner   Beat Sumner unconcious   Brooks  
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Began laying out New Yorks central park   Olmstead   Looted and Sacked by pro-slavery forces   Lawrence, Kansas   Case that ruled Missouri Compromise in uncontitutional   Dred Scott vs Sanford  
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Began printing lithographs of American Life   Currier, Ives   Squared off in 7 debates in the race for Illinois Senate seat   Lincoln, Douglas   First transatlantic cable fails after four weeeks   Cyrus Fields  
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Where first oil well was drilled   Titusville   Who drilled the first oil well   Drake   The Comstock Lode   Large silver strike  
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Where the comstock lode was found   Virginia City   (blank)   (blank)   (blank)   (blank)  
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Captured by forces under Lee, hanged for treason   Brown   Composed Dixie   Emmett   Began 11 day service from St. Joseph to Sacramento   Pony Express  
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Nations 16th President   Lincoln   Voted to secede from the Union   South Carolina   Forced surrender of Anderson at Ft, Sumter   Beauregard  
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Sent from California Supreme Court to Washington DC   First transcontinental telegram   Commander of Confederate forces   Lee   Head of union foces   McClellan  
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Became hero as South routs North in First battle of Bull Run, earned nicname "Stonewall"   Jackson   Said"There is Jackson standing like a stone wall"   Bee   Wrote Battle Hymn of the Republic   Howe  
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Called Cheesebox on a raft   Monitor   Fought in first ever battle of ironclads   Monitor, Merrimac   Won the second Battle of Bullrun   South  
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Fought to bloody standoff at Shiloh, TN   Johnston and Grant   Became the bloodiest confrontation of war as troops clash   Battle of Antietam   Where the battle of Antietam was located   Frederick, Maryland  
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Two commanders that fought at Antietam   Lee and McClellan   Provided 30,000 acres of US land to each state to establish colleges   Morrill Land-Grant College Act   Gives land at minimal cost to settlers in the west   Homestead Act  
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Becomes law on January 1, 1863; freeing slaves in Rebel controlled territory   Empancipation Proclamation   Well known short person marries a 32 inch woman   Tom Thumb   Married Tom Thumb   Lavinia Warren  
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Defeated Fighting Joe Hooker at Chancellorville   Lee   Accidently shot by his own troops; has his arms amputated and dies   Stonewall Jackson   His troops met with heavy casualties at Gettysburg   Lee  
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Lost 1/2 of his 14,000 men in ill-fated assault   Pickett   The ill-fated assault that killed 7,000   Pickett's Charge   Surrendered Vicksburg to Grant   Pemberton  
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Leads his pro-confederate forces on raids in Lawrence, Kansas killing 150 civilians   Quantrill   Attacked Fort Wagner in events that become the basis for the movie Glory   Massachussets 54th Colored Infantry   Defeated Rosecrans at Chickamauga   Bragg  
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Makes 2 hour speech no one today remembers   Everett   Wins again at Chattanooga; fought Lee in the Wilderness campaign   Grant   Sunk the ship Alabama off France   Kearsarge  
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Burns Atlanta; marches to sea and takes Savannah   Sherman   Takes Mobile Bay after urging his men to "Damn the Torpedoes, full speed ahead"   Farragut   His troops briefly occupy Washington before Grant sends reinforcements from Richmond   Early  
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Defeated McClellan for President   Lincoln   The Confederate Capital   Richmond   Where Lee surrendered to Grant   Appomattox Court House  
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What is the notorious prison camp that is liberated   Andersonville, Georgia   Assassinated Lincoln, shouted Sic Sempter Tyrannus; is hunted for crime, caught and killed at Port Royal   Booth   The 2 conspirators that are hanged   Surrat and Paine  
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Captured near Irwinville, GA   Davis   Published "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"   Twain   Patents the cylinder lock   Yale  
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