The Early Republic
A war fought between the United States and Britain over British impressment of sailors
What was the War of 1812?
land deal between the United States and France that doubled the size of the United States
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
a movement to end the institution of slavery
What was the Abolition Movement?
a line that established where slavery could and could not exist
What was the 36'30 Parallel?
the act of leaving a country and establishing a new one
What is secession?
the change in industry that sparked new inventions and technologies after the American Revolution
What was the Market Revolution?
war fought between the United States and Mexico that ended with much of Mexican Territory being given to the United States
What was the Mexican-American War?
a movement to give women the right to vote
What was women's suffrage?
a compromise that admitted California into the Union as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act
a military campaign that moved from Georgia to the ocean and secured Union Victory
What was Sherman's March to the Sea?
A route that the Government used to drive Native Americans out of their native lands
What was the Trail of Tears?
The discovery of a precious metal in a western state that led to many Americans moving west
What was the California Gold Rush?
a famous abolitionist and orator who was once a slave
Who was Frederick Douglass?
a compromise that let the territories of Utah and New Mexico choose if they were going to allow slavery, and stopped the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
the battle that has taken the most American lives and was a turning point in the war
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
An invention that led to the expansion of slavery
What was the cotton gin?
land taken from Mexico after a war fought between them and the United States in the late 1840s
What was the Mexican Cession?
a book published by Harriet Beecher Stowe right before the Civil War that changed opinions on slavery
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
a compromise in 1821 that admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
an executive order that freed slaves in Confederate states and allowed African-American men to join the Union army
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
a type of democracy that gave voting rights to the common man (a man who didn't own property)
What was Jacksonian Democracy?
the idea that the United States had a God-given right to expand democracy and bring civilization to the rest of the continent
What was manifest destiny?
A document produced during the First Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls
What was the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments?
a compromise that said the territories of Kansas and Nebraska could decide if they wanted to have slavery or not
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
an address given by Abraham Lincoln in 1863
What was the Gettysburg Address?