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Unit III study guide

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First president of the Republic of Texas   show
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show Cyrus McCormick  
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Mexican president / Dictator   show
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He coined the term "Manifest Destiny"   show
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show Zachary Taylor  
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show Kit Carson  
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Inventor of the steel-tipped plow   show
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Mormon leader who led his people westward   show
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show James K. Polk  
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show Henry Clay  
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show Oregon Territory  
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This territory was independent before joining the U.S.   show
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This was the last land acquired to make up the 48 contiguous states   show
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Purchased from Spain in 1819   show
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First land added to the United States   show
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Texas gained its independence from this nation   show
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show Southern 49th Parallel  
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show Guadeloupe Hidalgo  
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This author protested the Mexican-American War as unjust in his essays on Civil Disobedience   show
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Term: A candidate who unexpectedly wins nomination of their party   show
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Mexico was forced to recognize this river as the border with Texas   show
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show Homestead Act  
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The slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight!" referred to U.S. desire to acquire this territory   show
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show California (Sutter's Mill)  
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show Popular Sovereignty  
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show Pro-Slavery  
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show Abolition  
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show Free soil  
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show Dred Scott v. Stanford  
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Used popular sovereignty to decide slavery in the Mexican Cessian   show
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show Missouri Compromise  
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show Kansas - Nebraska Act  
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Proposed restoring the terms of the MIssouri Compromise for all the territories in order to avoid war. Rejected by the Republicans   show
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Slave who sued for his freedom in court but lost   show
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show Stephen Douglass  
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Abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin   show
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Abolitionist who led a raid on the Harper's Ferry arsenal to arm slaves   show
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Republican candidate and winner of the 1860 election   show
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show Liberty Party  
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show Democratic Party  
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show The Know Nothings  
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Had a free soil position on slavery and formed to opposed the Kansas - Nebraska Act   show
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show Fugitive Slave Law  
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Doctrine of Stephen Douglass who attempted to say that slavery could be limited in the territories despite the Dred Scott decision   show
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show Election of Abraham Lincoln  
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show William T. Sherman  
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Became president after Lincoln's assassination and later impeached   show
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Commanding Union general who led the North to victory Later became president   show
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show Rutherford B. Hayes  
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Commanding general of the Confederate Army   show
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Coutious Union general. Was replaced. Ran against Lincoln in 1864   show
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President of the Confederate states of America   show
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show Carpet Baggers  
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show Radical Republican  
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show Scallawags  
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show Peace Democrats (Copperheads)  
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show Court of Appomattox  
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Turning point battle due to the number of confederate casualties   show
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show Vicksburg  
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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamations after this battle   show
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First battle between northern and southern armies   show
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Term: Drafting men into the military   show
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show Segrigation  
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show Amnesty  
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show Habeus Corpus  
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Lincoln's plan for Reconstructions was harsh or lenient ?   show
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Which side in the Civil War emphasized states rights?   show
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The ORIGINAL purpose of the war fro the North was to ...   show
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show North  
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His vision of the "New South" meant building factories like the North   show
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show Anaconda Plan  
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Amendment gave African - Americans citizenship. Protects vivil rights   show
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... gave half their harvest as rent for the land   show
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... tests were used to deny suffrage to the freedman after the war   show
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show Compromise of 1877  
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show Civil Rights Cases (Plessy v. Ferguesson)  
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show Fifteenth (15)  
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show Border states  
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show Election of Abraham Lincoln  
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"With malice towards none" best represented this politician's view for Reconstruction   show
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The south's attempt to get help from Europe during the war is called   show
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show Tenure of office act  
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show Credit Mobilier  
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show Black Codes  
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