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Louisiana Purchase
This was Frances claim to the territory of Louisiana.The Louisiana territory encompassed all or part of 15 present U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. France controlled these areas from 1699 until 1762. this year they gave the territory to Spain.the purchase faced domestic opposition because it was thought to be unconstitutional. -
Lewis and Clark
The first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. They departed from St. Louis to the Pacific Coast. They set out to find new Sciene and new economics. -
Abolitionism
was a movement to end slavery,whether formal or informal. -
Robert E. Lee
He was an American career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. -
Erie Canal
First proposed in 1807, it was under construction from 1817 to 1825 and officially opened on October 26, 1825. This was the first transportation between the eastern seaboard. Helped New York City become the chief U.S ports. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.declined to support passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. -
Frederick Douglass
American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820, in effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Furthermore, with the exception of Missouri, this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line. -
Monroe Doctrine
President James Monroe first stated the doctrine. If Europe tried to colonize land or interfere with states in north or south america would be acts of agression. Wanted to guarantee no European power would move in -
Eli Whitney
Most famous for inventing the Cotton Gin. His invention strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the United States. -
Nate Turner
American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina -
Manifest Destiny
American settlers were destined to expand across the continent.It never became a national priority.phrase itself meant many different things to many different people, and was rejected by many people -
Wilmot Proviso
The 1846 Wilmot Proviso was a bold attempt by opponents of slavery to prevent its introduction in the territories purchased from Mexico following the Mexican War. Named after its sponsor, Democratic representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania, the proviso never passed both houses of Congress, but it did ignite an intense national debate over slavery that led to the creation of the antislavery Republican Party in 1854. -
Thomas Edison
United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope -
Seneca Falls Conference
a women's rights convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. -
Grimke Sisters
educators and writers who were early advocates of abolitionism and women's rights.Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Emily Grimke. They became early activists in the women's rights movement. -
Samuel Gompers
founded the American federation of labor.
Sitting Bull: tribal chief leader during the years of resistance with the United States. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing slavery in the territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude. It stipulated that the issue of slavery would be decided by the residents of each territory, a concept known as popular sovereignty. After the bill passed on May 30, 1854, violence erupted in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers, a prelude to the Civil War. -
Dred Scott Case
In March the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford. The case had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. Scott argued that his time spent in these locations entitled him to emancipation. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney disagreed: The court found that no black, free or slave, could claim U.S. citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the cou -
Ida Tarbell
leading muckraker of progressive era. A teacher and journalist. -
John Brown’s Raid
John Brown led a group of 21 men across the Potomac River from Maryland to Virginia. Their immediate objective was the capture of the cache of weapons stored at the U.S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Brown's ultimate goal was to destroy the slave system of the South. The raid attained initial success. Slashing the telegraph wires to cut off the town from the outside world, the raiders captured the local armory, arsenal and rifle manufacturing plant. They then rounded up 60 townspeople as hostages. -
William T. Sherman
He was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States. -
Fort Sumter
a Third System masonry sea fort located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter. -
Antietam
Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the first battle of the American Civil War. After a string of Union defeats, this victory provided Abraham Lincoln the political cover he needed to issue his Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union. -
Stonewall Jackson
He was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee. His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. Confederate pickets accidentally shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863. The general survived with the loss of an arm to amputation, but died of complications from pneumonia eight days later. -
Vicksburg
The Battle of Vicksburg was the culmination of a two year effort by Union armies and navies to take control of the Mississippi River from Confederate forces. On May 19 and 22, Grant launched a series of frontal assaults against Pemberton. On July 4, Pemberton surrendered his army to Grant, ending the siege and placing control of the vital Mississippi firmly in Union hands -
Gettysburg
Confederates drove Union defenders through Gettysburg to Cemetery Hill. On the morning of July 3rd, fighting raged at Culp’s Hill with the Union regaining its lost ground. Lee attacked the Union center on Cemetery Ridge and was repulsed with heavy losses in what is known as Pickett’s Charge. Lee's second invasion of the North had failed. -
Battle for Atlanta
It was a battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War. The battle occurred midway through the campaign and the city did not fall until September 2, 1864, after a Union siege and various attempts to seize railroads and supply lines leading to Atlanta. -
Jefferson Davis
He was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, from 1861 to 1865. -
President Lincoln
He was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln successfully led the United States through one of its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crises—the American Civil War—preserving the Union. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of R -
13th Amendment
this Amendment to the Constitution outlawed slavery. -
Andrew Johnson
17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated. -
14th Amendment
In 1866, the amendment was passed and gave blacks the right of citizenship in America. -
Ulysses Grant
: He was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) following his highly successful role as a war general in the second half of the Civil War. Under Grant, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military; having effectively ended the war and secession with the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox. As president he led the Radical Republicans in their effort to eliminate all vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery. -
15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified by the states in 1870 and also gave Congress the power to enforce such rights against governments that sought to undermine this guarantee through the enactment of appropriate legislation. -
John D. Rockefeller
In 1870, he established Standard Oil, which by the early 1880s controlled some 90 percent of U.S. refineries and pipelines. In 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court found Standard Oil in violation of anti-trust laws and ordered it to dissolve. During his life Rockefeller donated more than $500 million to various philanthropic causes. -
Jim Crow
state and local laws in the United States. "Seperate but equal rights" for African Americans in 1876-1965. -
Sitting Bull
tribal chief leader during the years of resistance with the United States. -
Compromise of 1877
It was an unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, and ended Reconstruction in the South -
William Lloyd Garrison
American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
allowed US to suspend Chinese Immigration. -
American federation of Labor
one of the first federations of labor unions, founded in Ohio. -
Wounded knee
occurred on December 29, 1890 near the Wounded Knee Creek, it was the last battle during the American Indian War. -
Ellis island
in Upper New York Bay,Gateway for millions of immigrants. -
1894 Pullman Strike
a nationwide conflict in 1894 between the new American Railway Union and railroads that occurred in the United States. -
Plessy v ferguson
state laws requiring segregation in public areas. -
Uptain Sinclairs The Jungle
written in 1906 about the life's of immigrants in the United States.
