Review 1
Groups of people who tried to form a perfect society
Utopian Communities
1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to choose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada
Underground railroad
3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg
gettysburg address
Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
The first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with almost 23,000 casualties.
Antietam
For federal officials, it gave the ability to capture runaway slaves in the North and bring them back to the South.
fugitive slave act
During the civil war the states between the north and the south: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri
border states
Where Robert E. Lee and the Confederates surrender to the Union and marks the end of the Civil War
Appomattox court house
General of the Union army after McClellan and later became President of the US.
Grant
An army of 17 whites and 5 blacks led by one man into Virginia for slavery revolt
John Browns raid
Site of Lincolns assassination
ford theater
Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast and capture of Richmond
Anaconda plan
Monitor and Merrimack were a new type of fighting on sea and were called
Ironclads
First major battle of Civil War where both sides realized the war would be much longer and bloodier than expected
Bull run
1863, with a Union victory, the north now controlled the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in half.
battle of vicksburg
(1848) the first national woman's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written
Seneca Falls Convention
An American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers
Monroe Doctrine
Agreement reached during the 1787 Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in a state's total population.
3/5 Compromise
Confederate war plan, where they would try to tire the Union out to where they would hopefully surrender
Defensive War of Attrition
There were originally how many colonies in Great Britain?
13
Agreement between the US ad Great Britain that helped avert war
Jays Treaty
Period in United States history following the American Civil War dominated by reintegrating the Confederate states back into America
Reconstruction
These Spanish soldiers defeated the Native Americans to acquire gold.
Conquistadors
Supreme Court case that established judicial review
Marbury v Madison