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Note Card #91
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Andrew Jackson
Elected president in
1828/1832,
Democrat-upheld
the power of federal
government
Note Card #92
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Tariff of
1828 and 1832
Tax on imported
goods, Southerners
disagreed with the
Tariff
Note Card #93
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Nullification Crisis
of 1832
South Carolina tried to
nullify (make void,
not follow federal
law) the tariff
Note Card #94
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Nullification Crisis
of 1832
Jackson told South
Carolina that they
could not Nullify the
law
Note Card #95
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Henry Clay
and
Daniel Webster
Came up with
Compromise in
Congress for the
tariffs & nullification
Note Card #96
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Indian Removal Act
of 1830
Opened Native
American lands to
westward expansion
by moving Native
Americans West of
the Mississippi
Note Card #97
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Trail of Tears
Removal of Native
Americans
(Cherokees) to
present-day
Oklahoma
Note Card #98
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Nullify
To cancel or void a
federal law
Note Card #99
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Manifest
Destiny
Westward growth of
the nation starting
with Louisiana
Purchase(1803) but
increased with
acquiring land
through the 1840s
and removal of
Native American
population
Note Card #100
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Mexican War
1846 – 1848)
Annexation (addition) of
Texas, development
of present-day
California, Nevada,
Utah, lands
influenced by the
Spanish and
Mexican
governments
Note Card #101
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California
1849
Populated by the
promise of GOLD
Note Card #102
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Mid-1800’s
Immigration
Increased population
of U.S. because of
potato famine in
Ireland
Note Card #103
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Mormons
Settled in Salt Lake
City, Utah
Note Card #104
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Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
Led women’s
movement towards
equality and
suffrage (right to
vote)
Note Card #105
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Temperance
Movement
Led by women – no
sale or drinking of
alcohol
Note Card #106
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Sojourner Truth
Ex-slave who wrote
about the freeing of
slaves and the
rights of women
Note Card #107
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Horace Mann
Father of public
education
Note Card #108
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Harriet Beecher
Stowe
• Wrote Uncle Tom’s
Cabin – discussed
the horrors of
slavery
• inflamed the
Southerners
* Made Northerners
become
abolitionists
Note Card #109
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Slavery in the
South
• Southerners based
agricultural
economy on slavery
•
produced mostly
cotton
Note Card #110
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Fugitive Slave Act
of 1850
North=Mad
South=Glad
Northern/Southern
officials could arrest
runaway slaves in
states without
slavery,
abolitionists (those
against slavery)
against Act
Note Card #111
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Dred Scott Case
(1857)
Opened
to Slavery
* Supreme Court
decision
• allowed slavery to
be extended into
territories and new
states
• Northern Mad 
• South Glad 
Note Card #112
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Civil War
April 1861
to April 1865
Note Card #113
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United States of
America (during
the Civil War)
Referred to as:
• The Union
• The North
• The Blue
Note Card #114
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Confederate States
of America
Referred to as:
• the Confederacy
• the South
• the Gray
This really
should be
the color of
Gray
Note Card #115
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Southern States
• Seceded from the
United States over
the issues of states
rights and slavery
• 1st state to secede:
South Carolina
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Fort Sumter
• First shots of the
Civil War
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Gettysburg
• Only major battle
fought in the North
(Pennsylvania),
• Confederate Army
defeated
• The South never
entered Northern
territory for
remainder of Civil
War
Note Card #118
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Vicksburg
• General Grant
defeated
Confederates
• Union gained
control of the
Mississippi River
• Split Confederacy in
half
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Appomattox
Courthouse
• General Robert E.
Lee (Confederate)
surrendered to
Ulysses S. Grant
(Union), April 9,
1865 – Civil War
over
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Abraham Lincoln
President of the
United States of
America during the
Civil War
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Jefferson Davis
President of the
Confederates States
of America during
the Civil War
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Robert E. Lee
• Commander of
Confederacy
military forces
• surrendered at
Appomattox
Courthouse
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• Commander of Union
military forces
U
lysses S. Grant
• accepted Robert E.
Lee’s surrender at
Appomattox
Courthouse
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Lincoln’s First
Inaugural
Address
• When Lincoln became
president first term
• upheld the power of
the federal government
• secession of states is
illegal
• No intention to end
slavery
• Goal: Preserve the
Union
Note Card #125
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Lincoln’s Second
Inaugural
Address
• When Lincoln
became president
second term
• President would not
punish the South at
the end of the Civil
War
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Lincoln’s
Assassination
• Shot and killed by
John Wilkes Booth
• Ford’s Theatre in
Washington, D.C. on
April 14, 1865
Note Card #127
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13th Amendment
(FREE)
Set all slaves free,
Passed as a result of
the Civil War
Note Card #128
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14th Amendment
(CITIZENS)
Gave citizenship to
ex-slaves and free
Blacks,
Passed as a result of
the Civil War
Note Card #129
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15th Amendment
Gave the right to vote
to black
men
,
(VOTE)
Passed as a result of
the Civil War