AMERICAN REVOLUTION
turning point of the war
Battle of Saratoga
Confederate troops attack the fort and the Civil war begins
Fort Sumter
African Americans were denied citizenship right (Supreme Court Case)
Dred Scott v. Sanford
laws passed in the South after the Civil War
aimed at controlling freedmen.
Black Codes
A period of religious revivalism in the 1800’s that focused on reform and repairing moral injustices
Second Great Awakening
Document written by Thomas Jefferson, claiming independence from Great Britain
based on the philosophies of Locke, Montesquieu, and Blackstone
Declaration of Independence 1776
Lee Surrenders to Grant; War is over
Appomattox Courthouse
Slavery in each territory was to be decided by popular
sovereignty (vote by the people)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
separation or isolation of a race, class, or group
segregation
Completed in 1825. It created a water route which linked farmers to northern manufacturing sites
Erie Canal
Tax on molasses (sugar). One of many events angering the colonists
Sugar Act
turning point of war; Lincoln gave an address
Battle of Gettysburg
onflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in
Kansas from 1854-1859
Bleeding Kansas
Name given to Southerners who supported
Republican Reconstruction of the South.
scalawags
The belief that America had the God-given right to expand across the continent from “sea to shining sea”
Manifest Destiny
Paul Revere made famous ride to warn about the British attack
“Shot Heard Round the World”
Lexington and Concord 1775
withdrawal of Southern States from the Union
Secession
Preserved balance of free and slave states and said
that congress would not regulate slavery in territories.
California becomes a free state, no slave trade in D.C.,
Popular Sovereignty in Mexican Session.
Compromise of 1850
name given to Northern whites who moved
South after the Civil War and supported the Republicans.
Carpetbaggers
U.S and Mexico argued over the border between
Texas and Mexico
Mexican War (1846-1848) (James K. Polk –President)
rights all people have from birth: life, liberty,
and pursuit of happiness; Declaration of Independence
Unalienable rights
Freed all of the slaves in the Southern States
Issued by President Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation
Helped slave owners recover their runaway slaves
from the North. (Part of Compromise of 1850)
Fugitive Slave Act (Law)
farmers who work land for an owner who
provides the equipment and seeds and receives a share of the
profit.
Sharecropping
Ended the war and Mexico recognizes Texas as a part of the U.S. and settles border dispute– Rio Grande the border.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo