Presidents
XYZ Affair/ Alien and Sedition Acts
John Adams
First permanent English settlement
First permanent English settlement - 1607
A series of severe laws (cancelled town meetings, closed Boston Harbor) passed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts
Abolitionist/ Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
First shots of the Civil war
Fort Sumter
Louisiana Purchase/ Embargo Act
Thomas Jefferson
Signed by many pilgrims, helped establish the idea of self -government.
Mayflower Compact
First battles of the Revolution
Lexington and Concord 1775
Improved care for the mentally ill, hospitals, and prisons.
Dorothea Dix
Bloodiest battle of the Civil War
Battle of Antietam
War of 1812/ Father of the Constitution
James Madison
People: Mostly Puritans from England /Economy: Shipbuilding, timber, fishing, whaling, merchant trade
New England Colonies
Document written by Thomas Jefferson, claiming independence from Great Britain based on the philosophies of Locke, Montesquieu, and Blackstone
Declaration of Independence 1776
Head of the state School Board of New York- pushed for free tax supported schools
Horace Mann
The only time the Confederate Army tried to win a battle in Northern Territory - Union Victory
Battle of Gettysburg
Indian Removal Act/ Nullification Crisis
Andrew Jackson
People: Diverse population from different European countries, Quakers/ Economy: Cash crops of wheat, other grains, fruits, vegetables, artisans.
Middle Colonies
Turning point of the war - Important victory because it influenced foreign nations to support America in its war against England. France used its Navy in the Americans effort for victory.
Saratoga 1777
Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, it was patterned after the Declaration of Independence - Fought for women’s suffrage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The primary commander of the Confederate States Army
Robert E. Lee
Mexican American War/ Treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo
James Polk
People: English Anglicans, Catholics, enslaved Africans/ Economy: dominated by plantations, cash crops of tobacco, rice, indigo, and cotton
Southern Colonies
Last major battle of the war French ships prevented British supplies to reach Yorktown British surrender because of lack of supplies
Yorktown 1781
Newspaper, The Liberator, the New England Anti-Slavery Society
William Lloyd Garrison
The primary Union commander
Ulysses S. Grant