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Eli Whitney
• December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825
• Invented cotton gin -
Grimke Sisters
• Educators and writers
• Early advocates of abolitionism and women’s rights -
Nat Turner
• 1800- 1831
• American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia
• 60 white deaths, 100 black deaths -
Louisiana Purchase
• 828,000 square miles
• Bought by the United States of America in 1803
• U.S. paid 15 million dollars(< 3 cents per acre)
• Worth $233 million in 2012 (< 42 cents per acre) -
Lewis and Clark
• First American expedition to cross western part of the U.S.
• shortly after Louisiana Purchase in 1803
• commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson
• led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark -
William Lloyd Garrison
• 1805- 1879
• American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer
• Best known as the editor of the abolitionist paper The Liberator
• One of the founders of American Anti-Slavery Society -
Robert E. Lee
• 1807- 1870
• Commanded confederate Army of Northern Virginia -
Abolitionism
• Movement to end slavery
• Formal or informal -
Jefferson Davis
• 1808- 1889
• American statesman and leader of the Confederacy
• Served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entirety (1861- 1865) -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• 1815- 1902
• American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women’s rights movement -
Frederick Douglass
• 1818- 1895
• American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman
• Escaped from slavery, became leader of the abolitionist movement -
Missouri Compromise
• Passed in 1820 between the pro and anti- slavery factions in the U.S. congress -
William Tecumseh Sherman
• 1820- 1891
• American soldier, businessman, educator and author
• Served as a General in the Union Army -
Ulysses S. Grant
• 1822- 1885
• 18th President of the United States
• Effectively ended the war and secession of the South -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1822
Passed by Congress and bars the further entry of Chinese laborers into the United States. Signed by Chester A. Arthur. -
Monroe Doctrine
• Introduced on December 2, 1823
• Said that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be seen as acts of aggression -
Stonewall Jackson
• 1824- 1863
• Confederate general -
Erie Canal
• Canal in New York that runs about 363 miles from Albany, New York to Buffalo, New York
• Opened on October 26, 1825
• Cut transport costs by about 95% -
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull was a Sioux holy man who played the role as tribal chief during the time of resistance of the American government policies. He died while defending his people at the standing rock indian reservation. -
Nullification Crisis
• Nulled and voided the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina
• Took place while Andrew Jackson was president -
Manifest Destiny
• Widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent
• Used by Democrats in the 1840s to justify the war with Mexico -
Wilmot Proviso
• Almost banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War of in the future
• Introduced by congressman David Wilmot in 1846 -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edsionwas one of Americas first great inventors and bussinessmen. He is responsible for over 1000 US patents, including the lightbulb, motion picture camera, phonograpg and more. He also was one of the first people to begin studying in a research facility he made himself. -
Seneca Falls Conference
• First public women’s rights meeting convention in the U.S.
• “the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise” -
Samuel Gompers
Gompers was an American cigar maker who later became founder and president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). BEcame a key figuire in American labor history. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
• Created territories of Kansas and Nebraska -
Dred Scott Case
• Dred Scott versus John A. Sandford
• Ruled that African- Americans weren’t citizens, therefore had no standing to sue in federal court
• Federal government had no power to regulate slavery in any territory acquired subsequent to the creation of the United States -
John Brown's Raid
• The raid on Harpers Ferry
• Attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia -
Abraham Lincoln
• 1809- 1865
• Abolished slavery, strengthened the national government and modernizing the economy -
Fort Sumpter
• Fort Sumter is a sea fort located in Charleston, South Carolina.
• It is significant because it is where the first battle of the civil war took place in 1861. -
Antietam
• September 17, 1862 in Sharpsburg, Maryland
• First major battle of the Civil War fought on union soil.
• Bloodiest one day battle in American history with over 22,000 dead and injured
• Robert E. Lee vs. George B. McClellan -
Emancipation Proclamation
Freed all slaves in the confederate territories and ordered troops to treat them as regular citizens. Issued by Aborham Lincoln to all segments of the executive branch. -
Vicksburg
• Naval and land campaign by the Union to try and capture the strategic point during the Civil War.
• Abraham Lincoln believed it to be one of the key points that would lead to victory.
• Resulted in a Union Victory. -
Gettysburg
• July 1–3, 1863
• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Largest number of casualities in the civil war.
General Robert E. Lee was defeated ending his invasion of the north. -
13th Amendment
Otlawed slavery across the entire country.
After some concern with the Emacipation Prtoclamation, Lincoln was finally able to pass the 13th Amendment and it will go down in history. -
Battle of Atlanta
The Battle of Atlanta was a battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia.
Sherman later settled into Atlanta -
Andrew Johnson
Johnson stood by Lincoln's side during the civil war as vice president but once Licoln was assassinated, he became the 17th president of the United States. He favored quick restoration of the succeeding states of the union and was later impeached. -
14th Amendment
Being adopted as a reconstruction amendment, the law stated "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." -
15th Amendment
This amendment allowed voting rights to all African Americans.
It was the third and final of the reconstruction amendments -
John D. Rockafeller
Founder of the standard oil company in 1870, Rockafeller dominated the oil industry and became one of the first great US business men. He made ridiculous amounts of straight cah. -
Jim Crow
Enacted from 1876 to 1965, the Jim Crow Laws were local laws in the United States that provided segregation for African Americans from public places -
Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era -
American Federation of Labor
Labor union founded in 1886. Samuel Gompers was president of the union. It was the first permanent national labor movement in America. -
Wounded knee
Occuring on the Lakota Pine Indian Reservation, it was the last battle in the American Indian Wars. It left 150 indians dead and was the Last altercation between the Sioux indians. -
Ellis Island
The gateway for millions of immigrants entering the United States located in NEw York City from 1892- 1924. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The supreme court decision to abolish the laws of racial segregation resulting tin the doctrine, "seperate but equal" (later changed to Brown vs. BOE). -
1894 Pullman Strike
A conflict between the American Railway Union in 1894, that resulted shutting down most of the freight and train shipments west of Detrot, Michigan. Nearly 4000 employees began a strike in response to the ridiculous reduction in wages. -
Ida Tarbell
Most famous for her 1904 book "The History of the Standard Oil Company", Tarbell was an American teacher and journalist. In her book she ridiculed and bad mouthe Rockafeller. -
Upton Sinclaire's The Jungle
A book written to display the lives of immigrants and expose the horrible conditions of the American meat packing industry. The books main focus is the terrible liviing and health conditions of the immigrants and factories.
