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empresarios
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Land grants to encourage TX settlements given by the Mexican gov
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Mexican land grants
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Called empresarios
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Stephen Austin
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Given an empresario, becomes naturalized Mexican. Secured repeal of 1830 prohibition of American immigration
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Texas Revolution
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Santa Anna passes policy restricting powers of regimes in Tx area, ignited series of rebellions
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Santa Anna
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Invades TX to crush rebellion,faces radical Americans who want independence his army was successful at first but texan defenders retreated into the Alamo most were killed
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Sam Houston
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Elected president of Texas territory
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the Alamo
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Many Americans killed here...later when Stephen Austin attacked Mexicans he screamed "remember The Alamo"
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The Republic of Texas
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Sam Houston was first president
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Oregon Territory
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People liked it because it was fertile
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The Overland trails
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The trails that one went from the colonies to Oregon so that people could settle
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debate over annexation of Texas
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Political opposition in northerners to the expansion of slavery and southerners fear idk
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Tyler's political platform
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Claims he's a Whig but actually is a democrat.... He's a little bitch who can't pick a side
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Webster Ashburton Treaty
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Settled disputes for boundary of Maine
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1844 presidential candidates
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James K Polk wins over henry clay
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Manifest Destiny
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John O'Sullivans idea that people should expand justified because of god and nature
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Annexation of Texas (1845)
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Tyler persuaded houses of congress to pass joint resolution...left Polk to deal with aftermath
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Oregon boundary dispute
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US claimed Oregon territory because (1) discovery of Columbia river (2) the overland expedition to the pacific coast by lewis&clark (3) the fur trading post and fort in Astoria, Oregon
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Oregon treaty (1846)
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Congress passes termination of joint control Oregon and Brit negotiated at 49th parallel
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causes of the Mexican War
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Issue of who Texas belonged there, mex gov fail to pay $2 mil to US gov
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Whig Opposition
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Whigs opposed Guadalupe-hidalgo because they saw war as immoral effort to expand slavery
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Zachary Taylor
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Moved his army toward Mexico to provoke war, conquered Mexico City, became famous war hero
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Winfield Scott
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Commanded army with Robert E Lee routed the Mexicans near Vera Cruz
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
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Ended Mexican war. (1) gave US, NM & CA (2) Acknowledged rio grande as southern border of TX
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Sectional effects of war
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Divided the north and south because of views of Texas and slavery
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Wilmot Proviso
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Attempted to forbid slavey in Texas but failed because we don't love no *****s
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Free-soil Party
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" free labor free slavery free speech free men"
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California gold rush
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People move to California in hopes of finding gold
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John Brown's raid
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John brown raided harpers ferry in hopes to start slave uprising bc hated slavery he was a radical democrat
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Taylor's position on slavery
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Didn't think allowing slavery in the new territories was a good idea nor would protect southern slavery
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Henry Clay
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Proposed the compromise of 1850
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Compromise of 1850
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Henry clays proposal to solve political crisis over: admit CA to union as a free state, divide Mexican cession into 2 territories that will decide slavery issue on popular sovereignty, ban slave trade DC, more effective fugitive slave law
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popular sovereignty
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People who settle new territories get to vote on whether or not slavery is allowed
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Fugitive Slave Law
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Chief purpose was to track down runaway slaves who had escaped to the north to capture them and return them to the south....underground railroad
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Stephen Douglass
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Chopped the compromise into individual bills to pass them each individually thru congress and it worked
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Ascension of M. Filmore
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Supported the compromise of 1850
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Effects of the slave law
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Combined with anti slavery and proslavery literature promoted sectionalism Southerners thought that the north's goal was to destroy slavery
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personal liberty laws
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Passed in north to counter the fugitive slave act
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Written about enslaved man and brutal white slave owner made northerners think that slave owners were cruel and inhumane
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Provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and its effects
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Douglas need southern approval to build his transcontinental railroad, compromises with a bill that will divide Kansas and Nebraska and allow popular sovereignty. This was above the Missouri compromise line..Made southerners happy that they could expand slavery
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Gadsden Purchase
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Little piece under Arizona acquired so that they could build a southern trans continental railroad
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Pierce & Ostend Manifesto
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Attempt to buy Cuba from Spain
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Disintegration of Whigs
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They were wrecked by the K-N act, they hoped to blame the dems but become divided
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the Know-Nothings Party
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Evolved out of the nativist society, seek to rid US of immigrants and catholic political influence by pressuring existing parties to nominate and appoint native-born Protestants to office, and immigrant only vote after naturalization
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Republican Party
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Extreme conservatives who want to restore Missouri compromise and some were former abolitionists and middle was free-soilers
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Bleeding Kansas
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Violence in Kansas between anti slavery and pro slavery people settling the territory hoping to est the state as either for/against slavery bc of KN ACT and popular sovereignty
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Pottawatomie Massacre
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John brown led 7 men to pottawatomie creek, sneak into slave owners tents and cut their heads off
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Sumner-Brooks incident
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Repub senator sumner berated US senator for complicity in slavery...a relative (Brooks) beat sumner with a cane
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election of 1856
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Repub-Frémont Know-n's picked Millard filmore Dems nominate buchanan Buchanan is only one running in both north and south, he wins
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Dred Scott v. Sanford
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A slave from who had been taken to Wisconsin sued for his freedom 1. Had no right to sue in federal court bc blacks were not considered citizens 2. Congress couldn't deprive someone of property bc slaves=property 3. Missouri compromise ruled unconstitutional
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Lecompton Constitution
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Free delegates drew up this for Kansas to submit to congress so Kansas could be admitted as free state, Buch knew the majority of people didn't support it and congress rejected it
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Lincoln-Douglas debates
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Lincoln's half divided speech, Douglas didn't mind slavery but minded the continuation or expansion of white settlement and wanted to keep slavery out of its path
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Freeport Doctrine
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Douglas says the voters of territory could effectively exclude slavery by refusing to enact laws that gave legal protection to slave property
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legacy of Harper's Ferry raid
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Inspires the abolitionist movement because a white man died for black people
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Election of 1860
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Abe Lincoln wins because he's a beast and called for exclusion of slavery from territories, land for homesteaders, tariff for industry, internal improvements. Ran against breckenridge Douglas and bell
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secession
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South voted to secede Buchanan didn't give a shit and let them, Abraham Lincoln had to deal with it
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Jefferson Davis
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Elected first president of the confederacy
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Confederate States
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Hinton Helper's Impending Crisis
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Described slavey as a curse upon poor white southerners and questions southern belief that slavery rendered all whites equal
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Crittenden compromise
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Proposed compensation for owners of runaway slaves, repeal of north personal-liberty laws and a. Constitutional amendment to prohibit the fed gov from interfering w slavery in the south
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Fort Sumter
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.Lincoln pledged to defend fort Sumter
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Fort Sumter
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Lincoln's use of executive power issues with the border states
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(1) called for volunteers got put down uprising in the confed (2) authorized spending for the war (3) suspended writ of habeus corpus
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Advantages/disadvantages for each side
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1st Battle of Bull Run
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Winfield Scott's Strategy
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Anaconda Plan
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Effectively blocked confederate ports
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McClellan/Peninsula Campaign
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2nd Battle of Bull Run
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Antietam
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Reasons for immense casualties
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Monitor vs. Merrimac
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Ulysses S. Grant
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The Western Campaigns
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Trent Affair
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Alabama (Confed Raider)
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King Cotton
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Confiscation Acts
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Emancipation Proclamation
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13th Amendment
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Massachusetts 54th
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Vicksburg
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Gettysburg
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Sherman's March
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Appomattox
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John Wilkes Booth and the assassination conspiracy
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Copperheads
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Ex Parte Milligan(and controversy over civil liberties)
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Conscription Act (controversy)
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War's effects on North
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Morrill Tariff Act (1861)
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Homestead Act (1862)
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Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
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Pacific Railway Act (1862)
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Women's roles in the war
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Concept of the war as the Second American Revolution
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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
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Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
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Freedman's Bureau
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Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
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Black Codes
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PResidential vetoes
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Radical Republicans
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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14th Amendment
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Report of the Join Committee
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Reconstruction Acts of 1877
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Tenure of Office Act
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Johnson's Impeachment
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15th Amendment
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Civil Rights Act of 1875
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Scalawags
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Carpetbaggers
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Blanche K. Bruce and Hiram Revels
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Pros/Cons of Reconstruction
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Black churches
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Sharecropping
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Republican leadership in early 1870's
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Credit Mobilier
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Corruption under Grant
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William "boss" Tweed
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Liberal Republicans
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"waving the bloody shirt"
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Causes of the Panic of 1873
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Redeemers
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Ku Klux Klan
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Amnesty Act of 1872
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Election of 1876
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Compromise of 1877
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Sitting Bull
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William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
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Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
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"Custer's Last Stand"
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Dawes Severalty Act
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Helen HUnt Jackson
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"placer" gold
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Wounded Knee
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Promontory Point
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the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
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Homestead Act
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Comstock Lode
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