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59 Cards in this Set
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Ecomienda system
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abolished by the Spanish because it brutally exploited Native Americans
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Spanish first moved to North American Southwest in order to
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Find gold and other treasures
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Middle Passage
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Part of triangular trade system that carried slaves from Africa to the West Indies and N.A.
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Trade between Africa and Portugal resulted in
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The exportation of slaves from Africa
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Columbian Exchange
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Exchange of goods between the Americas and Europe and Africa
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European colonization consisted of
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Introducing diseases like smallpox
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Mercantilism
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A nation can increase its wealth and power by obtaining as much gold and silver as possible by establishing a favorable balance of trade
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Stamp Act
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Opposition to it was stronger than the Sugar Act because it affected the colonists directly
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Intolerable acts
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Resulted in the formation of the first continental congress
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Marquis de Lafayette
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The arrival of him meant that Americans would receive help from the French
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The bill of rights was added in order to
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Appease the antifederalists’ concern over individual rights
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How did the Americans win the battle of Yorktown
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The British were almost completely surrounded and were outnumbered
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Louis and Clark
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Explored the Louisiana Purchase for the us
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Sam F.B. Morse
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Invented the telegraph
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McCormick
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Invented the reaper
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Monroe Doctrine
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Aimed to prevent Russia from establishing permanent settlements in California
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Annexation of Texas was delayed because
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sectional conflicts over whether Texas was a slave state or not
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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Union general who burned a path of destruction through Georgia
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wrote novel the incited protests against the Fugitive Slave Act--Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Robert E. Lee
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general who surrendered the Confederate army to Union forces
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Harriet Tubman
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conductor of the underground railroad
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Ulysses S. Grant
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general who won at Vicksburg and became commander of all Unior armies
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Stephen A. Douglas
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U.S. senator who debated Abe Lincoln on slavery
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Abe Lincoln
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reuplican who won presidency in 1860
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14th amendment
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granted slaves citizenship
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15th amendment
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gave slaves the right to vote
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Wounded Knee
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marked the end of the wars between the federal gov. and the Plains Indians
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exodusters
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former slaves from the south who settled on the great plains
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Homestead Act
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taken most by people seeking profits
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bimetallism
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making money from both gold and silver
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plains farmers supported bimetaliism because
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it would put more money in circulation
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marked the collapse of Populism
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the election of Wm. McKinely
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Social Darwinism discouraged
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government regulation
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scabs
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workers used to break strikes, unpopular with striking workers
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what made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s
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new methods of making steel
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Interstate Commerce Act goal
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to lower excessive railroad rates
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Thomas Edison invented
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the lightbulb and electricity
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Bell invented
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the telephone
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main immigration processing station in San Francisco
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Angel Island
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Chinese Exclusion Act goal
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decrease Chinese immigration
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main goal of Americanization movement
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assimilate people of various cultures into the dominant culture
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settlement houses were founded by
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social reformers
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illegal use of political influence for personal gain
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graft
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Tammany Hall
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new york city political machine
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ex. of patronage
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appointing a friend to a political position
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Pendleton service act required
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apllicants for gov. jobs to pass exams
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kept blacks in the south from voting
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poll taxes, grandfather clause, and lit tests
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effect of the trial of plessy v. ferguson
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racial segregation was permitted for nearly 60 years
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this development lowered the price of newspapers to a penny a copy
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lower price for american timber used by paper mills
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George Eastman
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invented the Kodak camera with film
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considered the most educated president
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Woodrow Wilson
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Progressivism
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reform movement that sought to reutrn control of the gov. to the people
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president of the U.S. who was a former president of Princeton and gov. of New Jersey
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Woodrow Wilson
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president whose actions split the republican party after he angered both progressives and conservationists
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Taft
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leader of woman suffrage movement
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Susan B. Anthony
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this state was the first to grant women full rights
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Wyoming
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3 main roots of american imperialism
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desire for military strength, thirst for new markets, belief in cultural superiority
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causes a crisis by threatening Hawaiian sugar growers with economic disaster
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The McKinely tariff
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recognizes the republic of Hawaii
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Grover Cleveland
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