Slavery
What did the 13th amendment end?
Slavery
Why were the people who moved to California called 49ers
They moved in 1849
The 16th president of the United States, and abolished slavery.
What was the Reform Movement?
A religious movement in Europe in the 1600's.
Who was King George III?
King of the United Kingdom
Where did the Emancipation Proclamation take place?
Gettysburg, Pensylvania
Who bought the land, called the Lousianna Purchase?
Thomas Jefferson
What document did Thomas Jefferson write?
The Decleration of Independence
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
A battle were the union was trying to take over the Mississippi river.
What were the Townshend Acts
Indirect taxes or duties imported material from Britain
Who was Dred Scott, and what happened to him?
An enslaved African American and he had filed a lawsuit for his freedom.
What ocean was the United states trying to reach with manifest destiny?
Pacific Ocean
Who was Fredrick Douglas?
An escaped slave
What was Seneca Falls?
A womens right convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
Who were the minutemen?
The frontline men of war
What rights did African Americans gain from the 15th amendment?
Gained the right to vote
What was the Manifest Destiny?
When the United States thought it was their God given right to expand wesward, which would help them gain lots of land and natural resources.
Who was Clara Barton, and did she create?
An American nurse and she founded the American Red Cross
What was the Missouri Compromise
A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-1821.
What were the Sons of Liberty?
A resistance group
Who spoke in Pennsylvania, a speech called the Emancipation Proclamation? What year did this happen?
Abraham Lincoln and 1863
What year was the Lousianna Purchase signed?
1803
What did General Grant do?
Fought for the union and made Robert E. Lee surrender
What state was admitted as a free state to the Union in the Compromise of 1850?
California
What was the Stamp Acts?
Colonists to purchase special stamped paper for every legal document, newspaper, pamphlet, etc.