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Eli Whitney
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invented cotton gin - reinvigorated slavery
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White Male Planters
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dominated south, socially, and politically
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European Migrants
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settled in the North, skilled workers, did not want to compete with slaves
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25%
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of southerners owned slaves
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, exposed the world to slavery
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Cost
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the main reason most southern whites did not own slaves
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Discrimination, Irish
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obstacles free blacks faced in the North
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Power to Slave States
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why the Texas annexation was opposed
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Joint Resolution
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Texas was added to the USA
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USA paid $15 Million to Mexico
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terms of the Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty
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President Polk
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faced antislavery forces about expansionist program
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Wilmont Proviso
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banned slavery in all ceded territory
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Free Soil Party in 1848
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wanted to give women right to vote
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Popular Soveregnty
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self-determination
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Election of 1848
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when Democrats and Whigs kept silent on issue of slavery
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Effects of Gold Found in CA
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disrupted balance of free/slave states, (also crime)
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Dred Scott v. Stanford, 1857
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slavery was constitutional, slave trade was not
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Uncle Tom's Cabin in Britain and France
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very unpopular, kept foreign armies out of war
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Lecompton Constitution
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permitted slavery in some form, divided democrats (Buchanan)
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New England Immigrant Aid Society
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moved immigrants to Kansas, to change free/slave state balance
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Start of the Civil War
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Confederates bombarded Union at Ft. Sumter
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Strengths of Union
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strong economy
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Weaknesses of Union
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not tactful fighting
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Strengths of Confederates
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brilliant military minds
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Weaknesses of Confederates
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weak economy
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Battle of Bull Run
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had seemingly opposite effect of reducing Confederate enlistments
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Peninsula Campaign
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Union tried to capture Richmond, lead to "total war"
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Monitor and Merrimack
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ironclad ships, broke through blockades
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Inspire Border States
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main reason Robert E. Lee invaded Maryland
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Confederate Victories at Antietam and Gettysburg Would Have
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led France and Britain to see South as its own country
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Freedman's Bureau
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attempted to provide education to freedmen
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Why Andrew Johnson?
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appeal to Democrats and Southerners
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Black Codes
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indicated arrogant South acted as it had won the war
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13th Amendment
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abolished slavery
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14th Amendment
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addressed citizenship rights
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15th Amendment
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gave African American men the right to vote
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Ku Klux Klan
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secret terrorist organization
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Ulysses S. Grant
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no political experience, poor character
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Positives of Reconstruction
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one union, gained power (not major on test)
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Negatives of Reconstruction
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waste, speculation, corruption
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Waving the Bloody Shirt
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reminder of Civil War, Republican Party's role
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Boss Tweed
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NYC "party boss", revealed by Thomas Nast
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Credit Mobilier Scandal
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railroad construction kickbacks
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Liberal Republicans
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formed to combat corruption from Grant Administration
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Horace Greeley
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Liberal Republican Candidate in 1872
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Panic of 1873
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expansion of factories, railroads, and mines
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Transcontinental Railroad
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federal government provided land grants and loans
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Wabash, St. Louis, & Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois
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railroads were interstate, and could not be regulated
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Thomas Edison
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entrepreneur, invented the light bulb
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Andrew Carnegie
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vertical integration
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John D. Rockefeller
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horizontal integration
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J. Pierpont Morgan
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interlocking directorates
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Problems of Move From Rural -> City
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more waste, need for disposal (space)
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Darwin's Theory (History)
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split between religious conservatives who denied integration and accommodationists who supported it
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Jane Adams, Florence Kelley
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Hull House, no religious instruction, social reform
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Booker T. Washington
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wanted economic independence and education for African Americans
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W.E.B DuBois
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wanted complete equality for all African Americans
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Buffalo Soldiers
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African American Regiment (Glory)
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Nez Perce Indians in Idaho
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forced onto reservations, started war
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Racial Divisions
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why white farmers aligned with Democrats rather than Populists in 1892
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Jacob Coxey
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marched in Washington for relief for the unemployed
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Alfred T. Mayham
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believed key to world domination was controlling the seas
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Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani
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opposed annexation to US, wanted Natives to control Hawaii
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Maine (Ship)
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went to Cuba, accidental internal explosion
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Rough Riders
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effective fighting force
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Spanish American War
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many soldiers died because of sickness and disease
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President William McKinley
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declared war on Spain, because of Cuba
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