Extended Proper Noun List
The 'mother country' of the 13 colonies in which the United States would later declare war on in 1812.
What was Great Britain?
The highest court in the land
What is the Supreme Court?
President George Washington
Who was the first President of the United States?
The belief shown in the zealous westward expansion of the United States from coast to coast
What is Manifest Destiny?
Preserve the Union and Win the War
At first it was a struggle to equip this new army to carry out the war because the newly created government lacked money to pay for the mounting costs.
What was the Continental Congress?
The Union and the Confederacy
What were the two factions of the Civil War?
Who was John Adams?
This compromise was created to preserve the balance of Slave and Free states
What was the Missouri Compromise?
numerical and industrial superiority
What were the primary advantages of the North in the Civil War?
The name used to refer to refer to both branches of the legislative branch. It consists of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is Congress?
What is the Soviet Union?
Originally avoided by previous presidents, this war began because American ships became caught in the cross fire between Great Britain and France
What was the War of 1812?
The effort to subvert the issue of slavery that created a bloody conflict in the Kansas
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
the legal right that anyone imprisoned must be taken before a judge to determine if the prisoner is being legally held in custody
What is Habeas Corpus?
Thomas Jefferson’s supporters that stood in opposition to the Federalists and believed that the national government must limit its power to only those areas described by the Constitution.
Who were the Democratic-Republicans?
Designed to increase the land that was available for white settlement. This act forced thousands of American Indians to leave their land and move west of the Mississippi River.
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
the 1857 ruling settled a lawsuit in which a slave claimed he should be a free man. He had lived with his master in slave states and in free states and believed he had been held illegally in the free states. The Supreme Court rejected the claim, ruling that no enslaved or free Black could be a citizen of the United States.
What was the Dredd Scott Decision?
A federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. Confederate forces staged a 24-hour bombardment against it and, by attacking federal property, had committed an act of open rebellion.
What is Fort Sumter?
The area of land ceded by Mexico following the Mexican-American War.
Who were Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden?
By 1820, although racial discrimination against Blacks remained, slavery had largely ended in the North. Many northerners and some southerners took up this cause
What was Abolitionism?
The man that is known for standing against slavery with violence and killing.
Who was John Brown?
Considered the Final Major Battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Atlanta?