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US History Midterm Review
1. Washington’s Farewell Address 2. Blockade 3. 13th amendment 4. 14th amendment 5. William Lloyd Garrison 6. Freedman’s Bureau 7. Gettysburg 8. Radical Republicans 9. Marbury v. Madison 10. John Brown 11. Dorothea Dix 12. Mormon migration 13. Tecumseh 14. Whiskey Rebellion 15. Louisiana Purchase 16. Fort Sumter 17. Alexander Hamilton 18. Missouri Compromise 19. “54-40 or Fight” 20. Warhawks 21. Gadsden Purchase 22. Kansas-Nebraska Act 23. Social Darwinism—stated that the most qualified in society would “rise to the top.” 24. Compromise of 1850—made California a free state, created Fugitive Slave Act 25. Tariff—tax on imports 26. Wilmot Proviso 27. Frederick Douglass 28. Jim Crow laws 29. Square Deal 30. Federalist Party 31. Bleeding Kansas 32. John Adams 33. Andrew Johnson 34. Horace Mann 35. Treaty of Ghent 36. Appomattox Courthouse 37. John Marshall 38. Hudson River School 39. Patent 40. Chinese Exclusion Act 41. Muckrakers 42. Secede 43. Eli Whitney 44. Adams-Onis Treaty 45. James Monroe 46. Compromise of 1877—Hayes is president, Reconstruction ends 47. John D. Rockefeller—richest person in US history—Standard Oil Company 48. Vicksburg—gave Union control of Mississippi River 49. Battle of Little Bighorn—Native Americans defeat US—draws more attention to the West 50. The Alamo—site where Texans were wiped out by Mexican Army 51. Emancipation Proclamation—legally freed slaves in the Southern states 52. Andrew Jackson—got the common person more involved in government 53. Spoils System—whoever wins the presidency brings their own people to power 54. Trail of Tears—Native Americans removed from their land and sent west 55. Dred Scott –slave, Court ruled that slaves were property 56. Impressments—British taking sailors off of US ships 57. Embargo Act—Jefferson refuses to sell goods to foreign nations 58. Anaconda Plan—Union plan to surround and squeeze the South in the Civil War 59. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions—said that states had the right to “nullify” national law 60. Harriet Beecher Stowe—wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin 61. Comstock Lode—large deposit of gold and silver in the West 62. Barbed Wire—divided the West 63. Greenbacks—paper money 64. New York Draft Riots—New Yorkers who opposed the Civil War, protest 65. Ellis Island—port of entry for immigrants from Europe
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