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1200 BCE
Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica was a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, and within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries -
100 BCE
Pueblo/ Anasazi culture
Are ancestors of today's pueblo indians. the Anasazi evolved from a nomadic to a sedentary culture Their villages, built at the top of mesas or in hollowed-out natural caves at the base of canyons, included multiple-room dwellings and complex apartment structures of stone or adobe masonry -
500
The Dark Ages
The Dark Ages was led because of the fell of Rome. The Fall of Rome was the low education that was provided. feudalism was a succeeded law in Rome that was a political and social system and personal obligation for military. An exchange of land for military defense and service but the the soldiers were weak and poorly trained so it did not help. -
1096
The Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups. In all, eight major Crusade expeditions occurred between 1096 and 1291. The bloody, violent and often ruthless conflicts propelled the status of European Christians, making them major players in the fight for land in the Middle East. -
1347
The Black Death
it arrived to europe by sea when 12 Genoese trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a long journey through the Black Sea. Over the next five years, the mysterious Black Death would kill more than 20 million people in Europe–almost one-third of the continent’s population. -
1348
The Renaissance
Renaissance means "rebirth" and it was the rebirth of classical culture, art, and learning. The exchange of new technology, ideas, and culture. Artistry was introduced during this time. For instance, Leonardo DaVinci and Michelangelo created the most famous sculptures and paintings. -
1440
Printing press
Made history better and faster, this is how the bible was spreaded and many other important scripts and books. Johannes Gutenberg is usually cited as the inventor of the printing press. -
1440
Aztecs human sacrifice
Aztecs were the largest populated native american societies. Aztecs would sacrifice many animals and humans to the gods. they would cut their heads and roll both body and head down the pyramid. People would celebrate and pray to the gods to accept their sacrifice. -
1452
Leonardo da Vinci
Was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture.who's known for his enduring works "The Last Supper" and the "Mona Lisa." -
The Bering Land Bridge
North America and Asia are separated today by a narrow ocean channel called the Bering Strait. But during the ice age, when much of the earth's water supply was locked in glacial ice, sea levels worldwide dropped and a land bridge emerged from the sea and connected the two continents. -
The Chesapeake Colonies
Virginia, Maryland. By 1700, the Virginia colonists had made their fortunes through the cultivation of tobacco, setting a pattern that was followed in Maryland and the Carolinas. In political and religious matters, Virginia differed considerably from the New England colonies. -
Slavery
Slavery was increasing dramatically during this period. Salves were used for agriculture, industrial, and house work. The Middle Passage was where more than 10% of slaves died. Slavery has begun in Europe where slaves from West Africa to the West Indies were stolen from. -
William Penn
Founded the Province of Pennsylvania, the British North American colony that became the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The democratic principles that he set forth served as an inspiration for the United States Constitution. Ahead of his time, Penn also published a plan for a United States of Europe, "European Dyet, Parliament or Estates." -
The Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts was a series of acts and laws that regulated the trade. It limited the trade of Dutch with the English colonies. The colonies represented a lucrative source of wealth and trade. Some of the acts were; 1651 Navigation Act, 1660 Navigation Act, 1663 Navigation Act aka the Staple Act, The Navigation Acts of 1673 (aka the Plantation Duty Act), 1696 and 1773 (aka the Molasses Act) closed the loopholes of the previous Navigation Acts and increased taxes -
Salem Witch Trials.
The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the Devil's magic—and 20 were executed. Eventually, the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted. -
The Caribbean Colonies
in the 17th century Spain loses two large sections of the central Caribbean to her European enemies. An English fleet invades and captures Jamaica in 1655. In 1664 France's West India Company occupies the western half of Hispaniola (the region now known as Haiti). -
The Triangular Trade
The Triangular Trade was a form of trade of the Atlantic trade routes that was used in the 18th century between Central America. The best-known triangular trading system is the transatlantic slave trade, that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries, carrying slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers, with the northern colonies of British -
Seconds Wave of the Bering Land Bridge
this event happened over 8,00 years ago. These people were ancestors of the southwestern natives.This was a ice age that started almost 20,000 years ago.It was about 1,000 miles wide and took over crops and made people poor and trade go down. -
The Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was set among people in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. was a Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s. An evangelical and revitalization movement, it left a permanent impact on American Protestantism. -
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was known as the "seven-year war". This New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756. -
The Acts of Parliament
An Act of Parliament creates a new law or changes an existing law. An Act is a Bill that has been approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords and been given Royal Assent by the Monarch. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob.The British troops had been billeted in Boston in October 1768 after repeated requests from British customs officials, who had been harassed and intimidated because of their efforts to enforce the Townshend Acts. -
The Battles of 1775-1781
In total, more than 1,500 Revolutionary War battles occurred during the American Revolution. These skirmishes and battles occurred in all thirteen colonies. The first battles occurred in Massachusetts but the majority of the battles occurred in New York, New Jersey and South Carolina. In addition, many battles also occurred in Europe, India and the West Indies after France, Spain, the Dutch Republic and the Kingdom of Mysore joined the war. -
Articles of Confederation
It was the first Constitution of the United States. Articles of Confederation supported or believed in States rights and did not favor a strong central government. From the beginning of the American Revolution, Congress felt the need for a stronger union and a government powerful enough to defeat Great Britain. During the early years of the war this desire became a belief that the new nation must have a constitutional order appropriate to its republican character. -
The Massachusetts Constitution
In this particular constitution instead of making the legislature supreme, Massachusetts distributed power more evenly throughout the legislatures and the court. Citizens within the colonies were the one's who voted on the Constitution.Was drafted by John Adams, is the world's oldest functioning written constitution. It served as a model for the United States Constitution, which was written in 1787 and became effective in 1789. -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was put into place to put an end to the Revolutionary War. At this time, it had recognized the U.S as an independent and sovereign nation. This had established the northern border with British North America/ Canada. Was signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783. -
Shay's Rebellion
The Shay's Rebellion was the work of Daniel Shay. It was a Post-War recession that was bad for everyone. He had started a rebellion and seized farms.Shays’ Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. -
The Great Debate
The transition from the Articles of Confederation to the United States Constitution wasn't a seamless one, and fixing the problems of the Articles of Confederation required a series of lengthy debates both during and after the convention. But one thing was certain, something had to be changed. Fifty-five Delegates met at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to determine how best to adjust the existing document. -
The Virginia Plan
The Virginia plan was intended for larger, more populated states. The plan abandons the Articles of Confederation and gives the government power when given authority by document. The Virginia plan was single executive with a two house legislature. The two house legislature had a lower house where people voted, upper house, and senate. The Virginia Plan was also known as the Randolph Plan, after its sponsor, or the Large-State Plan -
The Northwest Ordinance
Formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as The Ordinance of 1787, was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States (the Confederation Congress, passed July 13, 1787. -
The Federalists
The Federalist Papers consist of eighty-five letters written to newspapers in the late 1780s to urge ratification of the U.S. Constitution. With the Constitution needing approval from nine of thirteen states, the press was inundated with letters about the controversial document. Celebrated statesmen Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay weighed in with a series of essays under the pseudonym “Publius,” -
The Election of 1788
The Election of 1788 was won by the United States first president, George Washington. Washington was the only president to been unanimously elected by the Electoral College. Two of 13 original Colonies (North Carolina and Rhode Island) had not ratified Constitution, and did not participate; New York did not choose Electors due to an internal dispute -
The Three Branches of Government
Our federal government has three parts. They are the Executive, (President and about 5,000,000 workers) Legislative (Senate and House of Representatives) and Judicial (Supreme Court and lower Courts). -
The Bill of Rights
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. Written by James Madison in response to calls from several states for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties, the Bill of Rights lists specific prohibitions on governmental power. -
The Whiskey Rebellion
In January 1791, President George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton proposed a seemingly innocuous excise tax "upon spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same."1 What Congress failed to predict was the vehement rejection of this tax by Americans living on the frontier of Western Pennsylvania. By 1794, the Whiskey Rebellion threatened the stability of the nascent United States and forced President Washington to lead the US -
The XYZ Affair
Was a diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-War. U.S. and French negotiators restored peace with the Convention of 1800, also known as the Treaty of Mortefontaine. -
Adam's Presidency
Office: March 04, 1797- March 4,1801. John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. “People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity,” he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as the American experience.
Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. A Harvard-educated lawyer, he early became identified with the patriot cause; a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses, he led in the movement for independence. -
The Alien and Sedition Acts
Signed into law by President John Adams in 1798, four laws passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress as America prepared for war with France. These acts increased the residency requirement for American citizenship from five to fourteen years, authorized the president to imprison or deport aliens considered "dangerous to the peace and safety of the US" and restricted speech critical of the government. These laws were designed to silence and weaken the Democratic-Republican Party. -
The Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement. -
The Election of 1800
The ELECTION OF 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was an emotional and hard-fought campaign. Each side believed that victory by the other would ruin the nation.
Federalists attacked Jefferson as an non-Christian deist whose sympathy for the French Revolution would bring similar bloodshed and chaos to the United States. On the other side, the Democratic-Republicans denounced the strong centralization of federal power under Adams's presidency. -
Evolution of Agriculture
Agriculture had dominated the British economy for centuries. During the 18th century, after a long period of enclosures, new farming systems created an agricultural revolution that produced larger quantities of crops to feed the increasing population. -
The Louisiana Purchase
With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic. What was known as Louisiana Territory stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north. -
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, who with William Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the uncharted American interior to the Pacific Northwest in 1804–06. He later served as governor of Upper Louisiana Territory. The Lewis and Clark Expedition spanned 8,000 miles and three years, taking the Corps of Discovery, as the expedition party was known, down the Ohio River, up the Missouri River, across the Continental Divide, and to the Pacific Ocean. -
Andrew Jackson
Born in poverty, Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) had become a wealthy Tennessee lawyer and rising young politician by 1812, when war broke out between the United States and Britain. His leadership in that conflict earned Jackson national fame as a military hero, and he would become America’s most influential–and polarizing–political figure during the 1820s and 1830s. -
Technology of The War of 1812
In the 200 years since the War of 1812, technological innovation has been an essential component in the ships, aircraft, sensors, and weapons that have contributed to victories by America’s Navy. Discoveries and developments by the Navy’s research enterprise have also made extraordinary contributions to the lives of American citizens and people everywhere, with capabilities such as the Global Positioning System. -
The War of 1812
In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future. Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory. -
The Battle of New Orleans
On December 24, 1814, Great Britain and the United States signed a treaty in Ghent, Belgium that effectively ended the War of 1812. News was slow to cross the pond, however, and on January 8, 1815, the two sides met in what is remembered as one of the conflict’s biggest and most decisive engagements. -
The Panic of 1819
In 1819, the impressive post-War of 1812 economic expansion ended. Banks throughout the country failed; mortgages were foreclosed, forcing people out of their homes and off their farms. Falling prices impaired agriculture and manufacturing, triggering widespread unemployment. All regions of the country were impacted and prosperity did not return until 1824. -
McCulloch vs. Maryland
Was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. Admission of Missouri as a slave state would upset that balance; it would also set a precedent for congressional acquiescence in the expansion of slavery. -
The Monroe Doctrine
On December 2, 1823, President James Monroe used his annual message to Congress for a bold assertion: ‘The American continents were henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.’ Along with such other statements as George Washington’s Farewell Address and John Hay’s Open Door notes regarding China, this ‘Monroe Doctrine’ became a cornerstone of American foreign policy. -
The Election of 1824
On December 1, 1824, the results were announced. Andrew Jackson of Tennessee won 99 electoral and 153,544 popular votes; John Quincy Adams–the son of John Adams, the second president of the United States–received 84 electoral and 108,740 popular votes; Secretary of State William H. Crawford, who had suffered a stroke before the election, received 41 electoral votes; and Representative Henry Clay of Virginia won 37 electoral votes. -
The Presidency of John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams began his diplomatic career as the U.S. minister to the Netherlands in 1794, and served as minister to Prussia during the presidential administration of his father, the formidable patriot John Adams. After serving in the Massachusetts State Senate and the U.S. Senate, the younger Adams rejoined diplomatic service under President James Madison, helping to negotiate the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, which ended the War of 1812. -
The Age of Common Man
The 'corrupt bargain' that led to John Quincy Adams becoming president also led to four years of loyal but vocal opposition to Adams and rendered his presidency all but impotent. By the Election of 1828, Andrew Jackson was ready to try again. -
The Election of 1828
The United States presidential election of 1828 was the 11th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, October 31, to Tuesday, December 2, 1828. It featured a re-match between incumbent President John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson, who won a plurality of the electoral college vote in the 1824 election. -
The Telegraph
Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In addition to helping invent the telegraph, Samuel Morse developed a code that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines. -
Evolution of Transportation
During the Industrial Revolution the new matters of transportation were put in a such as modern roads, steam boats, canals, and one of the most important set of transportation, railroads. Now steamboats were perfect for transportation to move upstream. -
The Mormons
In 1830 The Book of Mormon was published. In the same year, Smith founded the Church of Christ–later known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints–in Fayette Township, -
The Growing cities
A massive majority of growing cities were taking place in the North. The North had a lot of industrial advancements compared to the Southern states because the North relied more on industry rather than agriculture. One of this advancements were manufacturing factories making more employment in the north. -
The Cherokee Trail of Tears
Migration from the original Cherokee Nation began in the early 1800’s. Some Cherokees, wary of white encroachment, moved west on their own and settled in other areas of the country. A group known as the Old Settlers previously had voluntarily moved in 1817 to lands given them in Arkansas where they established a government and a peaceful way of life. Later, however, they were forced to migrate to Indian Territory. -
The Nat Turner Rebellion
Nathanial Turner was a black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion (August 1831) in U.S. history. Spreading terror throughout the white South, his action set off a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves and stiffened proslavery, antiabolitionist convictions that persisted in that region until the American Civil War. -
The Nullification Crisis
Nullification is the formal suspension by a state of a federal law within its borders. The concept was first given voice by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, in opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts. The principle was accepted by the Hartford Convention of New England people in 1814 as well as many in the South, who saw it as protection against federal encroachment on their rights. It remained a point of contention and reached a crisis in 1832 -
The American Anti- Slavery Society
The American Anti-Slavery Society was one of the most prominent abolitionist organizations in the United States of America during the early nineteenth century. In 1833, abolitionists Theodore Weld, Arthur Tappan, and Lewis Tappan founded the American Anti-Slavery Society. These men provided local and state antislavery societies, including the Ohio Anti-Slavery. The organization sent lecturers across the North to convince people of slavery's brutality. -
The New York Female Moral Reform Society
The NYFMRS was based on the work of the "Magdalen Society" and the "Female Benevolent Society" of that city, both founded in the early 1830s and connected to Rev. John Robert McDowell, as a means to suppress the "licentiousness" (lack of moral restraints) of prostitution found in the city of New York. McDowell was a pioneer in reforming the prostitution found largely in the Five Points region of New York City. -
Jim Crow's Laws
By 1838 had become a pejorative expression meaning "Negro". When southern legislatures passed laws of racial segregation directed against blacks at the end of the 19th century, these statutes became known as Jim Crow laws. -
The Election of 1840
The United States presidential election of 1840 saw President Martin Van Buren fight for re-election against an economic depression and a Whig Party unified for the first time behind war hero William Henry Harrison. Rallying under the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,” the Whigs easily defeated Van Buren. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico. -
The Mexican American War
This war marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. A border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting and was followed by a series of U.S. victories. -
The Election of 1848
The United States presidential election of 1848 was the 16th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1848. It was won by Zachary Taylor of the Whig Party, who ran against Lewis Cass of the Democratic Party and former President Martin Van Buren of the newly formed Free Soil Party. -
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States. The war had begun almost two years earlier, in May 1846, over a territorial dispute involving Texas. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. -
The California Gold Rush
The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century. As news spread of the discovery, thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area; by the end of 1849, the non-native population of the California territory was some 100,000. -
The Chinese Migration
Once the Chinese heard the news of the gold rush, an immense amount of them traveled to California. The majority of these Chinese immigrants were unskilled male laborers who were in search of a better life for themselves and, for many, their families at home. These Chinese laborers typically lived in groups, and were very different from the others in the area. For example, they were not Christian, they barely spoke English, they had darker skin, and they had unique eating habits and clothing -
Crank Churns
From the mid-1800s through the 1940s, the hand-crank butter churn was the most commonly used household butter churn in America. Crank churns replaced simplistic wooden dash churns. It wasn't long before crank churns were replaced by electric churns. -
The Railroad
The earliest forms of railroads in America were used in mines and quarries; heavy loads were transported by horse-drawn carts running on wooden or iron tracks. Much of the initial work on self-contained steam engines was done in England, but imitators soon appeared in America. -
The Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Uncle Tom''s Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel which showed the stark reality of slavery and is generally regarded as one of the major causes of the Civil War. The novel was written in 1852 by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, a teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and a dedicated abolitionist, who was once greeted by Abraham Lincoln as the ‘little lady who started a war.’ -
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of people, many African American, offering shelter and aid to escaped slaves. The exact dates of its operation are not known, but it operated anywhere from the late 18th century to the Civil War. The Underground Railroad was formed as a convergence of various clandestine efforts at the time. -
The Kansas- Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state. -
The North
he History of the North British Railway until 1855 traces the founding and construction of the railway company. It built and opened its line between Edinburgh and Berwick (later Berwick on Tweed) and formed part of the first rail link between Edinburgh and London, -
The Greek Revival
Greek Revival is an example of a style that gained popularity by exploring parallels between an earlier culture and the present day. With British influence waning considerably after the War of 1812 and the nation rapidly expanding westward, the style was fundamentally an expression of America’s triumphant sense of destiny and the sense that our newly formed nation was the spiritual descendant of Greece, birthplace of democracy. Americans’ sympathy and support for Greece’s war. -
The Southern Society
At the time of the American revolution, slavery was a national institution; although the number of slaves was small, they lived and worked in every colony. Even before the Constitution was ratified, however, states in the North were either abolishing slavery outright or passing laws providing for gradual emancipation. The Northwest Ordinance barred slavery from the new territories of that period, so rather quickly, slavery effectively existed only in the South and became that regions. -
Norths Industrialization
The Union's industrial and economic capacity soared during the war as the North continued its rapid industrialization to suppress the rebellion. In the South, a smaller industrial base, fewer rail lines, and an agricultural economy based upon slave labor made mobilization of resources more difficult. -
The Union Blockade
During the Civil War, Union forces established a blockade of Confederate ports designed to prevent the export of cotton and the smuggling of war materiel into the Confederacy. The blockade, although somewhat porous, was an important economic policy that successfully prevented Confederate access to weapons that the industrialized North could produce for itself. The U.S. Government successfully convinced foreign governments to view the blockade as a legitimate tool of war. -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton was an American nurse, suffragist and humanitarian who is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross. Following the outbreak of the Civil War, she independently organized relief for the wounded, often bringing her own supplies to front lines. As the war ended, she helped locate thousands of missing soldiers, including identifying the dead at Andersonville prison in Georgia. -
The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
He was a self-taught lawyer, legislator and vocal opponent of slavery, was elected 16th president of the United States in November 1860, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Lincoln proved to be a shrewd military strategist and a savvy leader: His Emancipation Proclamation paved the way for slavery’s abolition, while his Gettysburg Address stands as one of the most famous pieces of oratory in American history. -
The Twenty Negro Law
The "Twenty Negro Law", also known as the "Twenty Slave Law" and the "Twenty Nigger Law", was a piece of legislation enacted by the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln was convinced that abolition had become a sound military strategy, as well as the morally correct path. On Sept. 22, soon after the Union victory at Antietam, he issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” While the Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave, it was an important turning point in the war, transforming the fight to preserve the nation into a battle for human freedom. -
The Conscription Act of 1863
The Enrollment Act, 12 Stat. 731, enacted March 3, 1863, also known as the Civil War Military Draft Act, was a legislation passed by the United States Congress during the American Civil War to provide fresh manpower for the Union Army. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
Is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg. The next day saw even heavier fighting, as the Confederates attacked the Federals on both left and right. -
The Carpetbaggers
A carpetbagger was a Northerner who moved to the South after the American Civil War during the Reconstruction era. Many white Southerners denounced them, fearing they would loot and plunder the defeated South and be politically allied with the Radical Republicans. -
The Election of 1864
United States presidential election of 1864, American presidential election held on Nov. 8, 1864, in which Republican Pres. Abraham Lincoln defeated Democrat George B. McClellan. As the election occurred during the American Civil War, it was contested only by the states that had not seceded from the Union. -
The Neutral States
A neutral country in a particular war, is a sovereign state which officially declares itself to be neutral towards the belligerents. A non-belligerent state does not need to be neutral. The rights and duties of a neutral power are defined in Sections 5 and 13 of the Hague Convention of 1907. -
The Southern Leadership
During the Civil War, the south has the greatest military leaders at the time. unlike the union leaders, who couldnt work with abraham lincoln. they had many great leaders such as general robert e. lee. -
The Black Codes
In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Democrat-controlled Southern states in 1865 and 1866, and ended in 1877 because of the Reconstruction after the Civil War. -
The Scalawags
In United States history, scalawags were southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, after the American Civil War. Like the similar term "carpetbagger," the word has a long history of use as a slur in Southern partisan debates. -
The Sharecroppers
A sharecropper is someone who would farm land that belonged to a landowner. The sharecropping family would plow, plant, weed, and harvest the land. However, they would only keep a small share of the crop, while the landowner would get the rest. Following the Civil War, plantation owners were unable to farm their land. -
Artic igloos
igloos were handmade houses that kept people in the artic warm and sheltered from predators. igloos were made out of ice and snow. the bed were made out of ice and caribou furs. Igloos were semi circles coming out of the ground.
