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Definitions and context for key terms and events in early american history, including the erie canal, louisiana purchase, black codes, john c. Calhoun, republicans, charles sumner, bleeding kansas, freedmen's bureau, amendments 13, 14, and 15, dred scott case, missouri compromise, abolitionists, reconstruction acts, whigs, seneca falls convention, and oregon trail. Students can use this document as a study aid for understanding the historical context of these important topics.
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Allowed New York merchants to gain control of much of the trade with the West. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 Defined Geographic line across______to determine future decisions...was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 To establish white dominance, southern legislatures passed. TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 Vice president and brilliant political thinker opposed to the tarrif, provided the appropriate theory to check federal power and protect minority rights. "We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign rights." Published Exposition and Protest. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 Anti-Catholic and Anti-slavery. Combined four main elements:
Beaten with a caneby congressmanPreston Brooks TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 The sack of Lawrence, the Pottawatomie massacre, and the canning of the summer set off a minor civil war. Crops were burned, homes destroyed, fights broke out in saloons and streets, and night raiders murdered enemies. TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 An agency providing emergency assistance at the end of the war. Established by congress to ease the transition from slavery to freedom for former ex-slaves. TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 Prohibited slavery in the US. TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 Defined equal national citizenship; reduced state representation in congress proportional to number of disfranchised voters; denied former confederates the right to hold office.
Antebellum political party that endorsed Henry Clay's American system, advocated politics as a vehicle for the reform of society, and opposed Jackson and the increases in the power of the executive branch of government. TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 Meeting convened in1848 in NY by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to discuss problems confronting women. The convention issued the Declaration of Sentiments concerning the treatment of women inaugurated the womens rights movement. TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 The overland route west from Missouri and Iowa along th Platte River, through South Pass, and down the Snake and Columbia rivers to the Willamette Valley. TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 People gave him 56% of their ballots, no other president in the century would equal that percentage of popular support. He was seen as a democratic hero but he wasn't very democratic. He owned slaves, defended slavery,, and condoned mob attacks on abolitionists.