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
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.