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American History

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Market Revolution   1800-1840 -economic transformation sparked by innovations (com&trans) -local economies--> national economies - canals, railroads, telegraphs, steamboats  
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Cotton Gin   1793 -Eli whitney, Georgia -simple device with rollers and brushes -quickly separated cotton from seed -revolutionized American slavery  
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Indian Removal Act   1830 -Andrew Jackson -provided funds to uproot the 5 civilized tribes -led to court cases then trail of tears  
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Missouri Compromise   1820 -Missouri drafts a constitution -maine admitted as free state -slavery prohibited in all remaining territory within Lousiana purch.north of 36 30  
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Monroe Doctrine   1823 -drafted by adams -The us will oppose further colonization in Americas -US stay out of European wars -warned Europe not to interfere in Latin America  
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second Seminole war   1835-1842 - largest most costly indian war - 1,500 americans die -Indians and blacks forced to move westward  
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Frederick Jackson Turner   1861-1932 -American historian known for his thoughts on westward expansion  
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Plantation Legend   1860's- -benevolent masters, father figure, take care of slaves - in the north, laborers are "disposable"  
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Solomon Northup   1808--1863 -Free African American man who was kidnaped into slavery -writes 12 years a slave  
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Margaret Garner   1856 -slave who escapes with her kids - kills her kids after being caught so they wouldn't have to return to slavery  
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Nat Turner   1800-1831 -slave preacher in Virginia -led the last large scale revolt -women and children victims -"was Christ not cruicified?"  
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Fancy Girls   began in 1830's -young slaver women who were high priced because of physical atractiveness  
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Pushing System   1800-1860 - increase in cotton production despite no tech. advances -quota system--> beat, raped, mutilated, lashed, water borded  
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Bleeding Kansas   1856 -pro slavery Missourians crossed the border and cast fraudulent ballots - sporadic civil war broke out  
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Emancipation Proclamation   January 1st 1863 -Lincoln - Freed slaves in states currently in Rebellion  
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13th Amendment   January 31st 1865 -abolished slavery in the union  
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Free soil Party   1848 -platform barred slavery from the western territories and for the federal gov't to provide free homesteads to settlers  
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Gabriel's Rebellion   1800 -Virginia - plan to march into the city and kill whites and keep some hostage until their demands were met. -plot discovered. 26 hanged,  
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Saartjie Baartman   1790-1815 -worked as a slave in cape town. -she was brought to London and put on exhibit as a scientific curiousity  
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William Lloyd Garrison   1805-1879 -prominent abolitionist and journalist  
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The Liberator   1830 - Abolitionist paper  
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Angelina Grimke   1805-1879 -abolitionist who supported womens suffrage -daughter of prominent slaveholder in south carolina  
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Manifest Destiny   1845 -John O'sullivan -divine mission to occupy North America -mission to extend freedom -led to westward expansion  
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna   1794-1876 - leader during the Mexican-American War  
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Treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo   1848 -treaty ended the Mexican-American War -mexico ceded 500 million square miles to the us  
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Compromise of 1850   1850 1. California would enter the union as a free state 2. the slave trade would be abolished in DC 3. a stringent new law would allow southerners to reclaim runaways 4. popular sovereignty in Mexican cession lands  
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Fugitive Slave Act   1850 - the law allowed federal commissioners to determine the fate of alleged fugitives without the benefit of a jury trial  
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Dred Scott   1857 1. could a black person be a citizen and sue? 2. did residence in a frees state make scott free? 3. did congress possess the power to prohibit salvery in a territory?  
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Mary and Emily Edmonson   1832-1853 - celebrated in the US abolition movement -play fancy girls in abolition theatres  
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Battle of Antietam   1862 -fought in Maryland - inconclusive result - bloodiest battle in American history -22,000 cassualties  
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Black Codes   1860's -granted certain rights, such as legalized marriage, ownership of property, and limited access to the courts. -denied the right to testify against whites, to serve on juries, or vote.  
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