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First semester APUSH ID list

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Bartolome de las Casas   show
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show Belief that the Spanish only killed, tortured, and stole in the Americas while doing nothing good.  
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Christopher Columbus   show
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Econmienda System   show
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show Spanish explorer and conquestador who led 2 expeditions to the west coast of South America (1524, 1526). He defeated the Inca of Peru and captured Atahualpa. Founded Lima in 1535  
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Francisco Coronado   show
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Hernan Cortes   show
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Jean-Baptist Colbert   show
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Montezuma   show
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show believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific, searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth,required members of Puritan Church; took place of baptism required by church  
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show (1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire.  
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show Pueblo Indians rose up against Spanish missionaries and settlers; established a short-lived confederacy  
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Act of Toleration   show
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show Dissenter in the Mass. Bay Colony who caused a schism in the Puritan community. Expelled in 1673 and established Portsmouth, RI  
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Anglican Church   show
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show In 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, a Virginia planter, led a group of settlers against the local Native Americans.Bacon and his men looted and burned Jamestown.Manifested the increasing hostility between the poor and wealthy in the Chesapeake region.  
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Congregationalists (Puritans)   show
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First Great Awakening   show
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Halfway Covenant   show
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show the first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619.  
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Indentured Servants   show
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Johnathan Edwards   show
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show Role in establishing first permanent English colony at Jamestown, Virginia. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between 1607 and 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay.  
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show governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Winthrop (1588-1649) was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its legislative policy. He envisioned the colony, centered in present-day Boston, as a "city upon a hill"  
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show first example of self-government in the Americas. The Pilgrims, having arrived at a harbor far north of the land that was rightfully theirs, signed the Mayflower Compact to establish a "civil body politic" under the sovereignty of James I.  
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Mercantilism   show
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show regulated trade in order to benefit the British economy, and banned colonial competition in large-scale manufacturing.  
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Roger Williams   show
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Salem Witch-Hunt   show
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show English government did not enforce those trade laws that most harmed the colonial economy. The purpose of salutary neglect was to ensure the loyalty of the colonists in the face of the French territorial and commercial threat in North America.  
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Society of Friends (Quakers)   show
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William Penn   show
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Battles of Saratoga   show
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show • In 1781, French and American forces encircled and trapped British General Cornwallis's army, forcing surrender of 8,000 troops.  
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Ben Franklin   show
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Boston Massacre   show
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show (Intolerable) acts instituted by the British as punishment for the Boston Tea Party; closed Boston Harbor until debt could be repaid, dissolved all town meetings in MA, and appointed British as all government officials  
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George Washington   show
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show important role in the establishment of the new government under the Constitution. One of the authors of The Federalist Papers, he was involved in the drafting of the Constitution. He was also the first chief justice of the Supreme Court.  
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show believed all people have a right to life, liberty, and property; stated the government is "created by the people for the people"  
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Loyalists (Tories)   show
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show Made a dramatic speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses in May 1765. "Virginia Resolves" were his resolutions for the colonies on taxes. No taxing unless by the Virginia House.  
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Samuel Adams   show
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Seven Years War   show
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Sons of Liberty   show
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show A law passed by the British Parliament in 1765 requiring colonists to pay a tax on newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, and even playing cards.  
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Stamp Act Congress (1765)   show
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show English Parliament placed a tariff on sugar, coffee, wines, and molasses to pay for war debts. Forbade importation of rum. Colonists avoided the tax by smuggling and by bribing tax collectors.  
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Thomas Paine   show
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Townshend Acts (1767)   show
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show Major figures in debate over Constitution, leader of Federalists, an author the Federalist Papers. Bank of U.S. as Sec. of Treasury  
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Alien and Sedition Acts   show
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show opponents of the Constitution during the period of ratification. They opposed the Constitution's powerful centralized government, arguing that the Constitution gave too much political, economic, and military control.  
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show Led by Thomas Jefferson, believed people should have political power, favored strong STATE governments, emphasized agriculture, strict interpretation of the Constitution, pro-French, opposed National Bank  
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show stressed maintaining commercial but not political ties to other nations; stressed not entering permanent alliances; America's uniqueness depended on being independent action on foreign affairs  
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show series of newspaper articles written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, the Federalist Papers enumerated the arguments in favor of the Constitution and refuted the arguments of the Anti-Federalists.  
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show Supporters of the Constitution that firmly believed the national government should be strong. Faded with election of Thomas Jefferson  
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Federalists   show
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James Madison   show
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Jay's treaty (1794)   show
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Loose Construction   show
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show alternative to the Virginia Plan. The New Jersey Plan favored small states in that it proposed a unicameral Congress with equal representation for each state.  
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show defined the process by which new states could be admitted into the Union from the Northwest Territory. Forbade slavery but allowed citizens to vote on it after statehood was established.  
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Shay's Rebellion   show
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Strict Construction   show
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show Drafter of the Dec. of Independence, Hamilton's rival, 3rd president, Louisiana Purchase.  
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show South wanted slaves to count as people which would have given them more representation, North disagreed. This compromise made each slave count as 3/5 of a person.  
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Virginia Plan   show
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show group of farmers refused to pay federal excise tax on whiskey, Washington responds decisively with troops (1794)  
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show known as transcontinental treaty, purchased Florida from Spain. Established western boundary for US and prevented Seminoles from invading Georgia  
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Andrew Jackson   show
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show A battle during the War of 1812 where the British army attempted to take New Orleans. Due to a foolish frontal attack, Andrew Jackson defeated them, which gave him an enormous popularity boost  
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show The American ship Chesapeake refused to allow the British on the Leopard to board to look for deserters. In response, the Leopard fired on the Chesapeake. As a result of the incident, the U.S. expelled all British ships until Britain apologized.  
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Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)   show
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Embargo Act (1807)   show
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show 1824 (Marshall case) states can't regulate inter-sate commerce, only Federal gov.  
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Henry Clay   show
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John Marshall   show
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show The U.S. purchased the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains from Napoleon for $15 million. Jefferson was interested in the territory because it would give the U.S. the Mississippi River and New Orleans  
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show 1803, Judicial Review  
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McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)   show
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show Admitted Missouri as a slave state and at the same time admitted Maine as a free state. Declared that all territory north of the 36°30" latitude would become free states, and all territory south of that latitude would become slave states.  
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show A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere.  
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show In 1816, during the administration of President James Madison, the Democratic-Republicans reversed course and supported its creation. It was patterned after the first and quickly established branches throughout the Union.  
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Treaty of Ghent (1815)   show
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show People in government wanted to go to war.  
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show A political scandal that arose when the Speaker of the House, Henry Clay, allegedly met with John Quincy Adams before the House election to break a deadlock. Adams was elected president against the popular vote and Clay was named Secretary of State.  
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show a senator from Massachusettes and the most powerful speaker of his time who was involved in the Webster-Hayne debate  
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show Wanted slavery, less government in citizens lives.  
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Exposition and Protest   show
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"His Accidency"   show
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Indian Removal Act (1830)   show
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John C. Calhoun   show
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John Quincy Adams   show
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Market Revolution   show
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show created the system of party government. claimed that political parties were necessary to "check" the government from abusing its power. created the first political machine. denounced the American System and opposed the Whigs.  
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show states have the right to nullify a federal law they feel is unconstitutional (Kentucky and Virginia Resolves)  
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show Caused by overspeculation of frontier lands, Jackson issued Specie Circular to force payment of loans and economy failed.  
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show State banks where Andrew Jackson placed deposits removed from the federal National Bank in an effort to destroy the bank.  
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show It required that the purchase of public lands be paid for in specie. It stopped the land speculation and the sale of public lands went down sharply.  
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Spoils System   show
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Tariff of Abominations   show
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show the forced removal of the Cherokee to Oklahoma in the winter 1838-1839; many died along the way  
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Whigs   show
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show abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass was a key leader of the society and often spoke at its meetings  
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American Colonization Society   show
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American Society for Promotion of Temperance   show
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show A transcendentalist Utopian experiment, put into practice by transcendentalist former Unitarian minister George Ripley  
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Charles Finney   show
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show Men dominated American families and women were the keepers of the home.  
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Declaration of Sentiments   show
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show Asylum reform; helped mentally ill.  
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton   show
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Frederick Douglass   show
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James Birney   show
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show abolitionists who gained legal help and acquittal for the Africans and managed to increase public support and fund-raising for the organized return trip home to Africa for surviving members of the group.  
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show Organized by Tappans when they broke with William Garrison. Nominated Birney  
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Lucretia Mott   show
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show Female abolitionists and suffragists, angelina spoke out to Mass. governor  
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Second Great Awakening   show
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show Fought for equality between the sexes, Quaker woman.  
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William Lloyd Garrison   show
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Antonia Lopes de Santa Anna   show
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Compromise of 1850   show
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show Democratic candidate for President in 1852 and the fourteenth president of the US. He made the Gadsden Purchase, which opened the Northwest for settlement, and passed the unpopular Kansas-Nebraska Act.  
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Free Soil Party   show
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show United States bought from Mexico parts of what is now southern Arizona and southern New Mexico. Southerners wanted this land in order to build southern transcontinental railroad, it also showed the American belief in Manifest Destiny.  
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show 11th president, very pro expansion. Poke.  
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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)   show
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Know-Nothing Party   show
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show This expression was popular in the 1840s. Many people believed that the U.S. was destined to secure territory from "sea to sea," from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This rationale drove the acquisition of territory.  
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Mexican Cession   show
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Popular Sovereignty   show
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show Dedicated to keeping slavery out of territories, further development of internal improvements, Comprised of Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free-Soilers, in defiance to the Slave Powers  
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show Senator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. Wrote the Kansas-Nebreaska Act and the Freeport Doctrine  
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)   show
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show Proposed no slavery in area of mexican cession, not passed.  
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Winfield Scott   show
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show 12th president of the US- American military leader. Ran as Whig in 1848 election and defeated Lewis Cass. Served in Mexican American War.  
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show Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Antislavery, Emancipation Proclamation, Assassinated.  
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show he man from Tennessee who was added as Lincoln's running-mate in 1864 to sew up the election by attracting War Democrats and the Border States; replaced lincoln after his death  
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show Lincoln needed to keep them in the Union in order to have a chance in the war and be re-elected.  
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show Northerners who went south to help reconstruct but many were accused of going to gain power. Black votes.  
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show Charles Sumner was a leading abolitionist who condemned proslavery men. Brooks beat Sumner.  
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show Ended reconstruction, pulled Federal troops out of South, southern democrats took over south.  
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Dred Scott Decision (1857)   show
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Emancipation Proclamation   show
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15th Amendment (1870)   show
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14th Amendment (1868)   show
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show The first kind of primitive welfare agency used to provide food, clothing, medical care, and education to freedman and to white refugees.First to establish school for blacks to learn to read.  
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show Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin - revealed horrors of slavery to the world.  
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show President of the Confederacy  
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show An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves, was hung in Harpers Ferry after capturing an Armory  
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Ku Klux Klan   show
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show really wanted equality between blacks and whites, thought Lincoln wasn't doing enough for blacks.  
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Robert E. Lee   show
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show Southern born republicans, considered traitors by southern democrats  
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Tenure of Office Act (1867)   show
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show Really supported black people  
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show freed blacks  
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show Leader of Union Troops  
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show Bought Alaska, Folly.  
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