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MIDTERM REVIEW- U.S. HISTORY
Midterm Exam study guide
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History
11th Grade
01/19/2010

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Republican Party
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Very opposed to slavery
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Compromise of 1850
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California beceame a state, popular sovereignty, fugitive slave act- people in North had to send back runaway slaves
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Military reconstruction act of 1867
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Divided South into military districts
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14th amendment
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Everyone born or naturalized as a citizen has certain right
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13th amendment
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Freed slaves
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Santa Anna
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General of Mexican Army, dictator
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The Bloody Shirts
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Harsh treatment with the confederates
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Bear flag revolt
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short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities. American won rebellion
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Radical Republicans
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Made Sure slaves got their rights, inflict pain on the South
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John Brown
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Massacre Pottawatomie creek, 1859,led to Civil War
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Freedman's Bureau
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North helped the Blacks
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Carpet Bagger
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Person from the North who went to the South to try and get rich
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Charles Sumner
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Preston Brooks beat him with a cane because he insulted a senator from the south
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Oneida Community
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Utopian community that practiced open marriage
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Republican party- 1850
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Republicans against slavery, Lincoln didn't want slavery to spread
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Black Codes
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Rules that Whites in the South put on the blacks, very strict
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Scallywag
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Southerners who help the North
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15th amendment
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Voting rights cannot be denied because of your race
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Panic of 1837
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everyone tried to get their money out, and banks did not have enough money
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Dred Scott case
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Slave who assumed himself free when he was in a free state. Supreme Court ruled that you’re not free if you’re in a free state and the right to own slaves was protected by the Constitution.
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Fort Sumter
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Where the war started, South Carolina, South shot first
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Pottawatomie Massacre
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John Brown and abolitionists killed 5 pro-slavery people
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Fundamental difference between North and South
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North- no slavery, industrialized, 21 million fighters
south- slavery, agriculture, 9 million fighters
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Anaconda Plan
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Union strategy- blockade southern ports, gain control of Mississippi River Valley and capture Richmond- Confederate capital
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General McCllelan
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General who replaced McDowell in the North
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General Lee
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Confederacy General
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Stonewall Jackson
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Southern General. Held firm while being attacked (STONEWALL)
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General Sherman
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Took Atlanta, Savannah with total war strategy
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New Technologies
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Weaponry, cannons, and armored ships
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Vicksburg
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Gen. Grant, Gen. Sherman, and Gen. Sheridan led a siege to take control of the Mississippi and began moving East and attacking South
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Gettysburg
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Battle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania when Gen. Lee tried to attack the North, Confederates and Union lost many soldiers however the Confederates retreated
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Internal Revenue Act
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Gave Government power to tax
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Pacific Railroad Act
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Government tried to make a railroad across the USA, showed that the government was actively involved in American affairs.
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Homestead Act
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If a person lived on land in the West for five years, they can continue living on it free of charge. (In hope of moving people West)
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Morrill Act
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Government sold land in the West and created "Land Grant Universities"
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Freed all slaves in the Confederacy
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KKK
Definition
Radical racist movement who went around pillaging and murdering blacks
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Missouri Compromise
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For every slave state, a free state must be established
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The Trail of Tears
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Indian tribes living in Georgia were forced to move west of the Mississippi. 1/4 of Native Americans died.
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The Abolitionist Movement
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Anti-Slavery
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Prominent American abolitionist
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Frederick Douglass
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ex-slave, prominent American abolitionist
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The Underground Railroad
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Underground railroad which moved slaves from South to their freedom in the North
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Manifest Destiny
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U.S. has a divine destiny to fill up the land of America
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Stephen Austin
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moved many families to Texas
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The Alamo
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Texas revolution, Santa Anna launched an attack against the revolutionists, Mexico won
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Annexation of Texas
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Lone Star Republic returned to the United States in 1845
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The Gold Rush
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Many moved west in hopes of riches with the discovery of gold
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John Fremont
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Fought in American-Mexican war, ran for President against Lincoln but lost
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Shakers
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Protestant religious sect
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Shakers
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Protestant religious sect
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Mormons
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practiced multiple marriages
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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American abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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