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Louisiana Purchase
The United States of America purchased over 800,000 square miles of land from France for less than 42 cents per acre. The land purchased contained the present day states of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and parts of other states. In all the United states purchased 15 present day states and two Canadian provinces from the French for 15 million dollars. -
Abolitionism
Abolitionism is a word explaining the movement of the end to slavery. In the United states, by 1804, slavery in all Northern states was abolished. This means that there was absoluteky no slavery going on in the North. Most northereners were against slavery. -
Lewis and Clark
The Louis and Clark expedition was the first in the United States to cross what is now the Western portion of the U.S.A. It was funded by president Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark were army officers. This expedition took place in order to explore the new regions purchased in the Louisiana purchase, and the group departed from the Mississippi River. -
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney is an American inventor best known for his invention of the cotton gin. He was important in the IndustrialRevolution, and made it much easier and faster for cotton production in the Antebellum south. This made cotton a very profitable crop, but he ended up losing a lot of money over patent problems. -
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Jefferson Davis
He was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. He also served as a congressman and then as a Missippi state senator.
After the Civil War, his citizenship was taken from him so he went to Europe then came back after his treason charge was dropped.
As the president, he would meddle in southern military strategy. He never had that much power and ieventually began to decrease even more. -
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Andrew Johnson
He was the 17th president of the United Sates. He was the first to be impeached. Johnson took a moderate approach to restore the South to the Union, and disagreed with Radical Republicans. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was when Missouri was deamed a slave state, this kept the number of slave and free states the same -
Monroe Doctrine
The monroe Doctrine states that efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with the states is considered an act of aggression, and the United States would intervene. It also stated that the United states would not interfere with current European colonies or be involved in any European affairs. President james Monroe (Pictured) first stated the Doctrine. -
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that runs for 363 miles, from Albany, New York on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York at Lake Erie, connecting the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. The canal contains 36 locks and cut transportation costs by 95%. It has made transportation much faster and cost effective. -
William Lloyd Garrison
He was a well known abolitionist and anti slavery writer. He wrote his own newspaper called the Liberator in which he explained these things. He was also prominent in the womens suffrage movement. -
Nate Turner
Nate Turner was a slave located in Southampton, Virginia who led a slave revolt resulting in 60 white deaths and 100 african american deaths. In the end, Turner was hanged, along with the executions of 56 other blacks who were involved. -
Nullification Crisis
This crisis is when the United States goverment put tariffs on goods going to South Carolina and they were declared null and void by South Carolina -
Manifest Destiny
This was an idea in the United States that settling in the West was the way to go. People believed that the west of the Mississippi had more opporotunity and the country needed to expand. Most democrats strongly supported Manifest Destiny while many Whigs did not. -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an ex slave who escaped and became a leader in the abolitionist moveme also wrote about anti-slavery topics and how difficult it was for slaves to live in the North after escaping slavery. He was also a supporter of womens suffrage. -
Wilmot Proviso
This event would have banned slavery in any part of Mexico that was took int the Mexican Amercian War. This angered the south and never passed. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist and leader in the womens right movement. She is often credited with creating the first womens rights and womens suffrage movements in the United States. Her husband, Henry Brewster Stanton and her were very active in the abolition movement as well. -
Seneca Falls Conference
This was a convention in Seneca Falls, New York led by womens rights activists including Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It held six sessions including a lecture on law, a humorous presentation, and multiple speeches representing the role of women in society and why they are important. This convention was very important in the womens' rights movement. -
Kansas–Nebraska Act
This made land opened by the Missouri Compromise open to settlers. There was a bloodly civil war of whether they would allow slavery or not. -
Dred Scott case
This case was between Dred Scott and Stanford it said that people of African desent slaves or free were not US citizens. -
John Browns Raid
John Brown was an abolitionist who raid Harpers Ferry for weapons and was stopped by the soon to be commander of the Souths armies Robert E. Lee. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the president o the US during the civil war, he wanted and started to end slavery. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. -
Robert E. Lee
The Generna lof the Confederate States of America. Also served US army before the war. -
Fort Sumter
April 12-14, 1861
Brig. Gen. Beauregard wanted the Union garrison to surrender, but they refused. When this happend, confederates got mad and two days later they opened fire to the fort. This was the opening engagement to the American Civil War. -
Willam T. Sherman
Led the US. military in it's march to Atlanta. Destroyed southern reasources and gave Lincon Atlanta as a birthday present -
Antietam
The Army of the Potomac assaulted Robert E. Lee's forces near Sharpsburg, Maryland on September 17. It was the single bloodiest battle of American history. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Issued by President Abraham Lincoln, it declared that all people were free including African Americans and slaves. It had a positive impact on Union efforts. -
Stonewall Jackson
Led the famous stonewall birgade, nicknamed this because in battle they looked like a stone wall -
The Battle of Vicksburg
Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies met on Vicksburg, entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered. With the loss of Pemberton’s army the Confederacy was split in half. Grant became well known after this. He later became general-in-chief of the Union armies -
Battle of Gettysburg
Confederate forces converged on the town from west and north. Federals retained Little Round Top and had driven back most of the enemy. Robert E. Lee later attacked the Union center on Cemetery Ridge. On July 4, Lee began withdrawing his army. His train of wounded stretched more than fourteen miles. -
13th Amendment
This document stated that slavery were to be outlawed.it was written on 1864, but it was not adopted until one year later. -
Battle for Atlanta
William J. Hardee hit the Union left and rear east of ATL. Determined attacks continued, but the Union forces held. John A. Logan’ s XV Army Corps then led a counterattack that restored the Union line. The Union won while the enemy delt with many casualties. -
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the standard oil company which dominated the oil industry and became the first US business trust. Rockefeller defined the structure of modern philanthropy. -
14th Amendment
It prohibits state and local governments from depriving people of life, liberty, or property without a certain trial to make sure it is done for the better. -
15th Amendment
This prohibits a US citizen to be denied the right to vote based on their race, color, or other things. -
Ulysses S. Grant
He was The General of the Army and served as president. He was one of the major contributers to the outcome of the civil war. -
Grimke Sisters
The Grimke Sisters were a group of three women two of whom were sisters. Early in their lives theysaw slavery first hand and worked to abolish it. Later in their lives they worked to equalize men and womens social rights. -
Jim Crow
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated racial segregation in all public places in the Southern states. -
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull was a Sioux tribal chief during the years of US government resistance in the midwest. He motivated his people to victory during the Battle of Little Bighorn against Lt Col. Custer and the US forces. Siiting Bull was a holy man who claimed to have visions of the future and performed other spiritual acts. He was killed at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation when police attempted to arrest him but his followers began a struggle leading to an officer shooting him. -
Compromise of 1877
It was an unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election and it ended Reconstruction in the South. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was an American inventor and business man who created and developed several devices that influenced life around the world. His most famed accomplishment was the first commercially practical electric lightbulb. His other innovatioins include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and he is often credited to be the first to create and use an industrial research laboratory. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
was a United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years. This law was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943. -
American Federation of Labor
The American Federation of Labor was the first Labor Union formed in the US. It was founded in May of 1886 in Colombus, Ohio by former Knights of Labor members who left due to bad leadership. The new organization was a conjoining of trade unions who worked to keep fair wages and conditions for craftsmen and industrial workers. In the 1950s the federation joined with its major rival and became largest and most influential union in the country. -
Samuel Gompers
Samuel Gompers was the founder and president of the American Federation of Labor from its creation in 1886 to his death in 1924. Under his leadership the craft unions implemented thorough organization and collective bargaining strategies to increase the wages of workers while shortening their working hours. Gompers worked toward the goal of emancipating labor during his presidency of the AFL. -
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee was the last battle of the American Indian Wars. it occured when the US calvary intercepted Spotted Elk and his supporters of the Lakota indians and escorted them to wounded knee creek to make camp. A struggle ensued when weapons were attempted to be taken away from the Lakota and ended after about 150 men, women and children were killed by the gunfire from the surrounding calvary officers. -
Ellis Island
Elllis Island was the busiest immigration gateway and inspection station in the US between the years of 1892 and 1924. It is situated in the Upper New York Bay in Jersey City and New York City. Thousands if immigrants passed through the island to enter America after traveling from their native countries. the island is now a museum but has been closed from the public since Hurricane Sandy struck in October 2012. -
Plessy v Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". -
Ida Tarbell
Ida Tarbell was an American teacher, author and journalist. She was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era. She wrote many notable magazine series and biographies. She is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company, which was listed as No. 5 in a 1999 list by New York University of the top 100 works of 20th-century American journalism. -
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
A book written by the American novelist Upton Sinclair. It portrayed the unpleasant conditions in the meat packing industry and the lives of poor immigrant workers.
