Mariah S. Mr.Sehl American History p.1 2015

  • Period: Dec 15, 1200 to Dec 15, 1500

    Three Worlds Meet

    migrate: The Europeans moved to America
    Adobe: Native American names
    Iroquois Beaque: William Att
    Renaissance: "rebirth" New army came along and it was time to plague
    Prince Henry the Alavigateer: direted Pertugese etbrts to sail into Atlanitc
    Christapher Columbus: "found" America, ferced own ship over Natives
    Conquistador: Hernan cortes;aztecs Francisco Pizarro found land
    Hernan Cortes: conquested Aztecs
    Moctezuma: Aztec empor gave corts gold
    Columban Exchange:delivers new plants and animal
  • Period: Dec 15, 1492 to

    The American Colonies Emerge

    Presido:spanish millitary settlement
    Mestizo: ntiked spanism and name americans population
    Northwest Passage: sea rout connescting Northern Atlenic and Pacific oceans
    John Smith:adventurec who helped saceed England
    House of Burgessess:first legistative in the American Colonies
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    The Colonies Come of Age

    Indetared Servant: people who pay off debtes
    Middle Passage:trade in Western Aferican stores
    Magna Carta: made by King John of Engbring that protected church at night
    English Bill Of Rights: document MAl declared spaiation of power. Freedom of speech
    Habeus Corpus:legal action by Whiom detaines can seek relaf for unlawful imprisoment
    Salutery Neglect: Britsh policy of avoidany seceret laws ment to keep Americans colonies abedint
    Mercantilism:Belif in deretion
  • Enlightenment

    Enlightenment
    1701-1650 This was intersects movement that emplhastied use at version and scientific method Great Awakening: regal of religious in the American colonies
    Cash Crops: grown primarily for the poor families to own use
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    Shaping a New Nation

    Bicameral Legislature: divided into 2 seperate assemblies or houses
    Articles Of Confederation: one in which 2 levels of govt are shared fundomentalroufers
    Northwest Ordinance: procedure for dividing the land into territories
    Shys Rebellion: tramersprotest
    Great Compromise: 2 houses congress
    The Federalist: advocate of federalism
    Popular Sovereignty:basic idea of democercy
    Limited Government:system of government bound free market libratonism
    Separation of Powers:powers of branches of goverm
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    Launching the New Nation

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    Balancing Nationalism and Sectionalism-Expanding Markets and Moving West

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    The Union in Peril

    Wilmot Proviso: was desigried to eleninote slavery as a resualt of the mexican war
    Compromise of 1850: package of 5 seperate bills that diffused the contronation between slave aand the free states
    Underground Railraods: network of secret routs used by 19 century enslaved people
    Harriet beecher stowe: wrote the famouse book "uncle toms cabin"
    Kansas Nebraska Act: This created Kansas and Nebraska allowed white male to settle to dedtermine through popular sover eignty wether to have slaves or no
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    The Battle of Fort Sumter

    -first battle of the civle war
    -request for help day of Lincolns inauguration
    -North/300 men,limmitted supplies,
    -South/unlimited Troops,siege tactics
    -4:30am South Opened fire
    -america was at war with itself
  • Anaconda Plan

    Anaconda Plan
    -military plan by winfield scott
    -cut the south in 2
  • 1 and 2 Battle of Bull Run

    1 and 2 Battle of Bull Run
    -July 21
    South; won and their Geranl was Joseph E Johnston
    -defeated army 36 hours to get back to Washington
    -replaced Irvin Mcdowell with George B Mcclellan
    -Second Battlr
    - August 28-30 1862
    -Prince Willam County
    -North led by General John Pope -South led by Lee
  • Antietam

    Antietam
    -General Robert E Lee and General George Mccleean
    -fought first major battle of the Civial War
    -Antietam Creek in Sharpsburg Marland
    - Mcclellan attacks against Lee
    -the bloodiest battle/day
    -Lincoln fired Mcclellan
  • Battle Of Fredericksburg

    Battle Of Fredericksburg
    -lastes 5 days
    -General Ambrose Burnside
  • Battle of Chancellorvill

    Battle of Chancellorvill
    -Nother general suprised attacted the south form the front and back
    -Nother/John Hooker
    -South Robert E. Lee
    -Stonewall Jackson helped Robert E Lee but died from a shot in the arm from there own men
    -battle went for 6 days
    -boodest battle -end of Aconda plan
  • Siege of Vicksburg

    Siege of Vicksburg
    -ended July 4th of that year
    -union victory
    -last battle in the Campaign
    -U.S Grant vs.
    -Mississppi River to cut the South in half
    -2 attemps were made
    -part of the amacda plan
    -texas and Lousina out of the war
  • Gettysburg

    Gettysburg
    -the only battle that will take place in the Northers sates
    -cant even see the gorund witht the dead bodies -pickests charge/sucsessful
  • Atlanta

    Atlanta
    -North: Willam Sherman idea of total war
    -destoryed factories and weakened the the south
    South: advatange of being home land
    -southeast of Atlanta Georgia
    -4 temats and all failed
    -the reason Lincoln was reelected
    - increased nothern morale
  • Shermans March to the sea

    Shermans March to the sea
    -to December 21
    -"Savannah Campaign"
    -Atlanta to Savannah
    -Sheman gave Lincol a "Christmas" presant
    -Sherman used psychological tactics to show the reality of the war
  • Appomattox Court House

    Appomattox Court House
    -confederate surrender
    -signing of the document took place in Willam house
    -700 casualties
    -fought in the south
    -south surender -aftrmath/the last sizable organized