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100
diary, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, or any other source of information that was created at a previous time
What is primary resources
100
Said three out of five slaves would count towards population and taxes
What is the three-fifths compromise?
100
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, it was passed in 1820; in 1854, it was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
was a belief that was widely held that the destiny of American settlers was to expand and move across the continent to spread their traditions and their institutions, while at the same time enlightening more primitive nations
What is Manifest Destiny
100
President Abraham Lincoln issued this document and order on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
in protests, colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor
What are the Boston Massacre?
200
a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution
What is anti-federalist?
200
in 1811 was a conflict between the confederacy of native warriors led by Tecumseh, a Shawnee tribe member, and United States armed forces under the leadership of General William Henry Harrison
What is the Battle of Tippecanoe?
200
Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
What is the cotton gin?
200
Debates of 1858 (also known as The Great Debates of 1858) were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
What is Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
300
a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the delegates took two major actions
What is the First Continental Congress?
300
the three branches of government
What is legislative, judicial, and executive?
300
the nation was rife with conflict, partisan passion, and larger-than-life personalities; a new party, the Republicans, came to office for the first time and a former vice president was charged with treason
What is the Jefferson Era?
300
began in Great Britain, where a series of inventions increased the production of manufactured goods. ... Another industrial game changer developing in 18th century Britain was steam power, which could be used to operate new machinery.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
The case before the court was that of this black man v. Sanford. He was a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, and had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom. His name was...
What is Dred Scott?
400
A law passed in 1787 to regulate the settlement of the Northwest Territory, which eventually was divided into several states of the Middle West.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
400
the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.
What is the Bill of Rights
400
signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
400
This act of 1854 allowed citizens in the in these two territories to decide locally whether to allow slavery. The act was modeled on the Compromise of 1850 but repealed both that compromise and the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
formally known as the Savannah Campaign, was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
500
An uprising led by a former militia officer which broke out in western Massachusetts in 1786. followers protested the foreclosures of farms for debt and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system. only time militia were used against American citizens
What is Shay's Rebellion?
500
a formal announcement issued by U.S. President George Washington on April 22, 1793, declaring the nation neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain
What is the neutrality proclamation?
500
Slavery was against Mexican law, but Americans brought slaves to Texas. Many American settlers and Tejanos, or Mexicans who lived in Texas, wanted to break away from Mexico. They did not like laws made by Santa Anna, Mexico's president. The Tejanos and Texans decided to fight for independence.
What is the Texas Revolution?
500
(also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the Southern United States.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
500
the raid on Harpers Ferry, it was an effort by armed the abolitionist to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
What is John Brow's Raid?
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