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Eli Whitney
American Invintor
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manifest destiny
idea that American settlers where destined to expand accross the Continent
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Abolitionism
First Great Awakening
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luisiana purchase
US paid 15 million dollars for luisiana territory
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lewis and clark
first expedition accross the western US
American presence in the territory
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William Lloyed Garrison
American Abolitionist, journalist and social roformer. Editor of abolitionist newspaper The Liberator -
jefferson davis
jefferson davis was president of the confereracy. he was born june 3rd 1808 and die december 6th 1889
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elizabeth cady stanton
American social activist, abolistionist, and leading figure of early womens rights. she definetely yolo -
Missouri Compromise
Bill passed by U.S. Congress to balance out the number of Free states and Slave states.
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Monroe Doctrine
Stated that Eurpoen Efforts to take North or South Americas would be taken as acts of aggression
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Erie Canal
reason for new york being an economic power
1st transportation sysytem between eastern seaboard and western interior
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nate turner
African slave that led a slave rebellion in virginia -
Nullification Crisis
South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification declared tahta the Tariff of 1828 was unconsitutional and therefore, did not apply to South Carolina. What they hoped would reduce the Tariff, only brought economic downfall. yolo -
Grimke Sisters
Sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimke were abolistionist and feminist activists in the mid to late 1800s. In 1839 the sisters edited American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, a collection of testimonies written by people who noticed abuse in slavery. yolo -
Wilmot Proviso
Plan to ban slavery in the regions of Mexico set by a Democratic congressman, David Wilmot. -
seneca falls conference
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Dred Scott Case
Also known as Scott vs Stanford. A slave, Dred Scott, asked for his freedom because his master resided in the State of Illinois where slavery had been banned.It was basically a debate whether blacks were ever classified as American citizens and should have rights of a normal citizen. -
Ida Tarbell
American teacher, author, and journalist
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John Brown's raid
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Lincoln
Lincoln was the 16th president of the U.S. He preserved the Union. After giving the GettysBerg Address, Slavery was abolished. He was later assassinated. -
Robert E. Lee
Despite wanting to stay in the Union, Lee sided with Virginia when it pulled from the Union because he wanted to stay loyal to his home state. He fought as a confederate General in the Civil War, even after Lincoln had offered him a role as General of the Union. -
William T. Sherman
Sherman was a Union general for the Civil War. He pushed for a "Total war" against the confederates. He led the famous "Sherman March" and left the south in dust piles. -
Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jonathan Jackson was another confederate general during the American Civil War. He served in events such as the Valley Campaign and the Battel of Chanslorville. -
Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jonathan Jackson was another confederate general during the American Civil War. He served in events such as the Valley Campaign and the Battel of Chanslorville. -
Uylsses S. Grant
Once a general in the Civil War, he became the 18th president. He served 2 terms after destroying the Ku Klux Klan in 1871. -
John D. Rockefeller
founded Standard Oil Company
World's richest man (at that time?)
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Jim Crow
segregation
separate but equal
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Sitting Bull
cheif of Lakota tribe
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THOMAS EDISON
GENIUS INVENTER
DISCOVERED ELECTRIC LIGHTING (LIGHTBULB), MADE THE PHONOGRAPH TO RECORD SOUND, AND CREATED AN ELECTRIC CAR BATTERY -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
SUSPENDED Chinese immigration -
Samuel Gompers
major labor union leader
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American Federation of Labor
first American labor union
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Wounded Knee
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Ellis Island
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Plessy vs Ferguson
Homer Plessy arrested for sitting in a whites only railroad car
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1894 Pullman strike
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Frederick Douglass
american social reformer. After escaping from slavery he became a leader of the abolitionist movement -
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
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