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Thomas Jefferson
) He was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence andthird President of the United States -
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Eli Whitney
An American inventor who invented the cotton gin during the Industrial Revolution. This improved industry, because the country now required less people to work the cotton, freeing up labor for factories -
Grimke Sisters
Two sisters that were early advocates of abolitionism and women's rights -
Manifest Destiny
The belief that settlers in America were destined to expand across the continent. This provided justification for several events, such as the war with Mexico, as it was their "destiny" to conquer the area. -
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Abolitionism
A movement to end slavery -
Nat Turner
Slave who led a slave rebellion on August 21, 1831 -
Lousiiana Purchase
Territory of the western United States spreading from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and between the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian Boarder purchased for $15 million from the French in 1803. This area was later explored during the Lewis and Clark expedition from 1804 to 1806. -
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Lewis and Clark
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led an expedition across the western United States from St. Louis to the Pacific coast -
William Lloyd Garrison
Editor of the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator" -
Andrew Johnson
He was the 17th President of the United States,serving from 1865 to 1869.Johnson was presidentafter Lincoln was killed/assassinated.Johnson came to office as the Civil War concluded. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American social activist and abolitionist, although she was mainly focused on women's rights. -
Frederick Douglass
An escaped slave who became an influential abolitionist -
Missouri Compromise
An agreement between pro-slavery and anti slavery states pertaining to the regulations of slavery. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a US Policy introduced under the presidential rule of James Monroe. It classified any further attempts of European colonization or interference in North and South America as acts of aggression, requiring the United States to interfere in the matter. -
Erie Canal
Erie Canal building project is finished. This was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard and the western interior of the United States. -
Nullification Crisis
A crisis created by South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification which declared that the Tarrifs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional. -
Sitting Bull
Sioux Indian Cheif who lead his people to victory against General George A. Custer's troops in the Battle of Little Big horn. -
John D. Rockefeller
He was an American industrialist and philanthropist abd he He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, and it dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business. -
The Wilmot Proviso
This event could have banned slavery in the territories aquired after the Mexican War. It is considered a major contribution to the start of the Civil War. -
Seneca Falls Convention
Women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. It spanned two days, and had six sessions -
Compromise of 1850
It was a package of five bills passed in the United States in September 1850,a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states.avoided secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and it repealed the Missouri Compromise. -
Dred Scott Case
A court case which is often described as the worst decision the Us Supream Court has ever made. It was decided that African Americans were not legal citizens and therefore could not sue anyone. They also decided that the federal government could not regulate slavery in any territory aquired subsequent to the creation of the United States. -
The Battle of Antietam
Also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil.It was the bloodiest day battle in american history. -
Emancipation Proclamation
It is an order issued to all segments of the Executive branch, of the United States by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. -
Vicksburg
was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. Happened when Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee went across the Mississippi River and sent the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
Gettysburg
It is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and is known as one of the best speeches in American history. It was made by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, -
13 Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
Battle of Atlanta
Was a battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War on July 22, 1864. Union forces commanded by William T. Sherman defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John B. Hood. Union Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson was killed during the battle. -
14 Amendment
Its Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship that overruled the Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) that had held that people of African descent could not be citizens of the United States. -
15 amendment
The United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, -
American federation of Labor
Noth American Labor that union merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955. -
Samuel Gompers
British United States Labor Union leader Who founded the American federation of Labor. -
Wounded Knee
A slaughter of a battle in the American Indian war. -
Ellis Island
Ellis Island is a small island in the New York Bay off of Manhattan. It was the prime Immigration Station of The United States of America from 1892 to the early 1940’s. It eventually became a monument and later a museum in the 1990’s. -
1894 Pullman Strike
