Laws and Policies
Europe can no longer cross the border of North and South America in order to colonize territories.
Munroe Doctrine
a thirty-year-old Virginia slave who led a bloody rebellion that resulted in the death of fifty-five whites, mostly women and children.
Nat Turner
This president believes in neutrality and America being separate from all other nation's issues
George Washington
This was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades. The fight took place mostly in and around Springfield during 1786 and 1787.
Shay's Rebellion
This man believed he would be doing himself and his nation a huge service if he was able to eliminate and assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
Under this policy, the federal or central government is weak while the state government has more power
Articles of Confederation
an escaped slave from Newtown who had made his way to Canada with his family
This president was the first president that openly spoke out against slavery
Abraham Lincoln
from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 55 delegates met up with the goal of deciding how America was going to be governed.
Constitutional Convention
This man taught himself to read and write, escaped from slavery, and went on to be one of the major forces in the fight to end slavery in America
Federick Douglass
This act required that slaves be returned to owners, even if they were in a free state.
Fugitive Slave Act
this man moved to England in 1850 and spoke on abolitionist themes. He went to Jamaica as a missionary in 1852. In 1859 he founded the African Civilization Society and in an 1860 speech wrote of his belief that "Africa is to be redeemed by Christian civilization."
Henry Highland Garnet
This was the 3rd president and the only president to be both strict and loose constructionist. He was the former U.S. ambassador to France, Paris.
Thomas Jefferson
This was the largest slave revolt in history, in Charleston South Carolina. Slaves gathered and raided a firearms shop, and headed south, killing more than 20 white people as they went. Other slaves joined the rebellion until the group reached about 60 members.
Stono Rebellion
This man was called from the West Indies in order to introduce American slave owners to strategies they can use to keep their slaves in check.
William Lynch
Authorized the repossession of lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
Indian Removal Act
an enslaved person who accompanied his owner, an army physician, to postings in a free state (Illinois) and free territory (Wisconsin) before returning with him to the slave state of Missouri.
Dred Scott
This man was a common man and also very instrumental in the removal of the Indians from their designated land. He was the first president to rise from rag to riches.
Andrew Jackson
After four bloody years of conflict, the United States defeated the Confederate States. In the end, the states that were in rebellion were readmitted to the United States, and the institution of slavery was abolished nationwide.
This was one of the few white men who was adamant about fighting against slavery. He was famously known for an article he published, where he openly spoke against the idea and system of slavery. He was a mentor to Douglass.
William Lloyd Garrison
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave states and free states, this law was passed
Missouri Compromise
an American shoemaker and activist, best known as the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case where he staged an act of civil disobedience to challenge one of Louisiana's racial segregation laws and bring a test case to force the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of segregation laws.
Homer Plessy from Plessy v. Ferguson
This president passed laws to make it harder for immigrants to get their citizenship and naturalization in the U.S. in the 1700s
John Adams
in this event, a two or three minutes speech was given. At this moment the words reflected the belief that the Civil War was not just a fight to save the Union, but a struggle for freedom and equality for all, an idea Lincoln had not championed in the years leading up to the war.
The Gettysburg Address
used to refer to the practice of wearing makeup to imitate the appearance of a Black person. The use of such makeup was associated with minstrel shows in the United States from the 1830s until the mid-20th century; it is now regarded as highly offensive.
Blackface