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Nat Turner
1800 - 1831
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led rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 --> resulted in death of 60 whites and 200 black slaves (involved in rebellion)
known as Nat Turner Rebellion
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/North_american_slave_revolts.png
William Lloyd Garrison
1805 - 1879
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-best known for his abolitionist newspaper The Liberator
-founder of American Anti-slavery Society
Abe Lincoln
1809 - 1865
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-Civil War
-Abolished slavery
-Douglas Debates
-elected president in 1860
Oregon Trail
1811 - 1840
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-2000 mile long trail that stretched from the Missouri River to Oregon
-led to disputes with Mexico
Invention of the Steamboat
1816
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Invented by Eli Whitney
American Colonization Society
1817
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Robert Finley
primary vehicle to support the return of free African Americans to what was considered greater freedom in Africa
Missouri Compromise
1819
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Maine --> non-slave state (free state)
Missouri --> slave state
prohibited slavery in the Louisiana territory above the 36 30 parallel
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Missouri_Compromise_Line.svg
Erie Canal
October 1825
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connected Hudson river to Great Lakes --> increased new yorks wealth and economy
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Erie-canal_1840_map.jpg
Andrew Jackson's Presidency
1829 - 1837
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-removal act
-trail of tears
-President of the "common man"
-Spoil system
-"old Hickory"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/andrewjackson
Temperance (Prohibition)
1829 - 1930
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Prohibition of selling and consuming of alcohol, amendment was amended by another amendment
http://www.ushistoryscene.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/The_Drunkards_Progress_-_BW.jpg
Removal Act of 1830
1830
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Jackson approved this act in 1830. He removed the Indians from their territory and forced them along the Trail of Tears where most of them died. The Cherokee Indians started with 15000 members and 4000 of them died.
Trail of Tears
1830 - 1842
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choctaws 1830
Seminoles 1835-1842
Cherokee 1838 (winter)
Chicksaw
creek
American Anti-slavery Society
1833 - 1870
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abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
Native American Party
1837 - 1854
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Known as "know nothing" party
Panic of 1837
1837 - 1843
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Martin Van Buren --> President at the time
caused by economic expansion from 1834-1836
Frederick Douglass
1838
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after he escaped slavery
-1848 wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
-became leader of abolitionist movement
German and Irish Immigration
1840 - 1860
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Seneca Falls
1840 - 1920
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demand for suffrage until 1920
1848 there was a two-day convention
Samuel F.B. Morse
1844
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Telegraph
1844
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improved communication
California Gold Rush
1848 - 1855
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
February 1848
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treaty between Mexico and US that ended the Mexican War
$15million for everything above Rio Grande
Polk wanted all of this territory
Compromise of 1850
September 1850
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four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848)
Five bills passed in 1850
avoided secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years
Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas
Republican Party
1854
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one of the two major political parties in the US today
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
1858
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total of 7 debates
main issue was slavery
Transcontinental Railroad
1869
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The railroad was constructed between 1863 and 1869
It was 1907 miles long. Stretched from San Francisco Bay to the existing Eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the Missouri River
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Transcontinental_railroad_route.png