States’ Rights

Northwest Ordinance

Lewis and Clark

Louisiana Purchase

Tobacco

War of 1812

Habeas Corpus

Emancipation Proclamation

Jefferson Davis

Ulysses S. Grant

Robert E. Lee

William T. Sherman

Sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase and

bring back information about the land and native people.

Created laws for the area

bounded by the Mississippi R and Ohio R. Encouraged

migration, banned slavery, and provided schools.

Power that Anti-Federalist wanted to protect. Limits the power of the federal

government.

Causes: 1. Britain violated our neutral trade. 2. British policy of impressment. 3. Suspected British of arming Indians to raid frontier settlements. 4. Desire to take Canada from G.B.

Labor intensive crop which saved the colony of Virginia and created a dependence

on slavery.

Jefferson purchased this land from France for $15 million.

It doubled the size of the U. S.

President of the Confederacy (from Mississippi)

Changed the goal of the Civil War by stating that the slaves in the Confederacy were free. Didn’t actually free anyone.

Requires that a person under

arrest be bought before a judge or into court. Lincoln suspended this during the

Civil War.

Union general who burned Georgia and destroyed Atlanta

in his March to the Sea.

Commander of the Confederate troops during the Civil War.

Led 2 invasions into the North.

Commander of the United States troops during the Civil War.

Victor at Vicksburg. President during Reconstruction.

Stonewall Jackson

Fort Sumter

Battle of Antietam

Battle of Gettysburg

Battle of Vicksburg

Battle of Atlanta

Gettysburg Address

Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address

Presidential Reconstruction (Lincoln – Johnson Plan)

Radical Republican Reconstruction (Congress’ Plan)

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

1st major battle on northern soil. Lee retreated. As a result of the northern victory, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Union fort attacked by the Confederacy thus

beginning the Civil War

Confederate General who earned his nickname in his

victory at the Battle of Bull Run.

Sherman’s attack on a

southern transportation hub. He disrupted the Confederate’s ability to resupply. Part of his

“March to the Sea.”

Grant’s 7 week attack which

split the Confederacy and gave the Union control of

the Mississippi River.

Deadliest battle of C. War

(3 days). Confederates attacked on northern soil. Lee retreated.

The battlefield was dedicated as a cemetery.

Plan to forgive Southern states and readmit them

to the Union quickly. It was opposed by Congress.

Lincoln’s speech which

urged the Union not to seek revenge on the slaveholders

but instead to seek the Reconstruction of the South.

Lincoln’s speech which helped raise the spirits of Northerners by encouraging them to keep fighting. “The dead here have

not died in vain...”

Law which gave African

Americans citizenship and equal protection under the

law (part of Congress’ Reconstruction Plan).

Abolished slavery (part of Congress’

Reconstruction Plan)

Plan which forced Southern states to reapply for admission to the Union and give rights to

former slaves.

15th Amendment

Morehouse College

Freedmen’s Bureau

Andrea Johnson’s Impeachment

Black Codes

KKK

Scalawags

Compromise of 1877

Carpetbaggers

Monroe Doctrine

Erie Canal

New York City

Reconstruction organization set up to help blacks make the transition from slavery

to freedom.

African American college which opened in Atlanta

during Reconstruction (1867).

Law which stated that one could not be denied the right to vote based on race (supposedly gave blacks the right to vote).

Secret society in the South which used terrorists tactics to control African Americans and keep them from voting.

State laws passed during Reconstruction to prevent

blacks from exercising their newly granted rights, i.e. voting.

Radical Republicans attempt to remove Andrew Johnson

from office. This vengeful act failed by one vote.

Northerners who traveled

South to help former slaves and make money during

Reconstruction

In order to get Southern support, Hayes removed the troops from

the South thus ending Reconstruction and leaving

blacks unprotected

Negative name given to Southerners who cooperated

with Reconstruction

Capital of the U. S. until 1790. Major trading center and home

to artisans, craftsmen, & banking. Major port.

Waterway which connected

the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean in 1825. It lowered transportation costs and

opened western NY to settlement.

U.S. foreign policy which said that

America would protect the Western Hemisphere from European

colonization & that we would stay neutral in Europe’s affairs.

Industrial Revolution

Eli Whitney

Cotton Gin

Interchangeable Parts

Manifest Destiny

Temperance Movement

Abolition

Public School Movement

Women’s Suffrage Movement

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Seneca Falls Convention

Jacksonian Democracy

This invention removed the

seeds from cotton and made growing cotton much more

profitable thus increasing the South’s reliance on slavery.

American inventor of the cotton gin and

interchangeable parts.

Period in the early 1800s when power driven machines

replaced skilled laborers with hand tools.

Movement to restrict the consumption of alcohol.

Idea that it was America’s fate to occupy all the land between the Atlantic and

Pacific Oceans.

Making items with identical parts so that one part can

replace another without any custom fitting.

Eli Whitney’s idea.

In the early 1800s, women began seeking the right to vote and other legal rights.

Required school attendance in tax supported schools and

required trained teachers. (Free to students.)

Movement to end slavery.

Name of the time period when voting was expanded to include

all white men, not just landowners. There was also greater public participation

in the govt.

1848 Women’s rights convention

which helped to begin the women’s movement. Elizabeth

Cady Stanton was one of the organizers.

Outspoken women’s rights

supporter for voting, parental and custody rights. Helped organize the Seneca Falls

Convention.

William Lloyd Garrison

Frederick Douglass

Grimke Sisters

Nullification

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Missouri Compromise

John C. Calhoun

Sectionalism

States’ Rights

Mexican-American War

Wilmot Proviso

Compromise of 1850

Women who grew up on a

southern plantation but moved to the North and

became abolitionists.

Former slave who worked

for abolition with Garrison. He gave speeches and

published his autobiography and a newspaper entitled the North Star.

Abolitionist writer and editor of the Liberator. He printed graphic stories of poor slave treatment and founded the

American Anti-slavery Society.

1. Missouri entered the Union as a slave state. 2 Maine entered as a free state. 3. Slavery in the Louisiana Purchase was outlawed north of the 36’30 parallel.

Slave rebellion which killed 60

whites. As a result >100 slaves were executed and tougher restrictions were

placed on slaves.

Southern idea that a state

could nullify federal laws they opposed. In the 1830s, the

South wanted to nullify the tariff.

The belief that states

could have more political power than the federal

government.

Loyalty to the southern region of the US, not the US as a whole. It helped

start the nullification crisis.

Resigned as Jackson’s VP to help South Carolina

oppose the tariff.

Law that eased tension over slavery for a short time: 1. California admitted as a free state. 2. Popular Sovereignty in Mexican cession.

3. Strict Fugitive Slave Law. 4. Outlawed slave trade in Wash., DC.

Proposed law (which didn’t pass) that would have

outlawed slavery in any territory taken from Mexico.

US annexation of Texas led to

war with Mexico which the US won. The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

granted California and New Mexico to the US.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Popular Sovereignty

Dred Scott Decision (Scott v Sanford)

John Brown

Abraham Lincoln

Harriet Tubman

Underground RR

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Republican Party

Bleeding Kansas

Henry Clay

Fugitive Slave Law

Supreme Court ruling which

said that no African American could be a US citizen and that

Congress couldn’t prohibit slavery in federal territories.

When the settlers decided whether or not to allow

slavery in a territory.

Repealed the Missouri

Compromise and replaced it with popular sovereignty (gave

settlers the right to decide for themselves whether or not to

allow slavery).

Former slave and Underground

RR “conductor” who helped over 300 slaves escape

to freedom.

Republican who was elected

President in 1860 which prompted southern states to secede and form the Confederate

States of America.

Abolitionist who attacked

proslavery settlers in Kansas and led a failed raid at Harpers

Ferry to arm the slaves. Executed. Terrorist or Martyr?

Party formed to stop the spread of slavery into the territories. Lincoln was their first Presidential

candidate.

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin which was a fictional book

about the horrors of slavery.

Secret network of abolitionists who smuggled slaves

to the North.

Required that northern states send runaway slaves back

to the south.

Kentucky politician who designed the Missouri Compromise and the

Compromise of 1850. Known as “The Great Compromiser.”

Small-scale Civil War in Kansas over whether or

not to allow slavery. >200 people were killed.