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Reveiw For Am. Hist
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| John C. Calhoun | Senator of South Carolina that declared that the South would not give up its liberty to save the Union |
| James Madison | The 4th President who was the best record keeper. Named "Father of Constitution" |
| John Brown | Abolitionist who almost started a slave revolt at Harpers Ferry before he was arrested and hung |
| Cotton Mather | Puritain leader. Quote "Religion begate prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother." |
| George Whitman | Preached over 18,000 sermons. One of the most powerful evangalistic preachers in history."Spoke in open feilds" Friend of Benjamin Franklin |
| Henery Clay | Proposed Compromise of 1850 to find middle ground for slavery |
| Rockefeller | Huge oil giant |
| Carnegie | Huge steel giant |
| Ben Franklin | Ambassador to France during Revolutionary War. Famous inventor |
| Squanto/Tisquantim | Indian who helped the Pilgrims survive |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America. Ordered attack on Fort Sumter |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th president. Wrote Gettysburg Adress and Emancipation Proclimation. Lead Union Side during Civil War. Assasinated by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's theatre |
| William Bradford | Govenor of the Pilgrims |
| George Mcclellan | Hesitant |
| Lewis and Clark | Explorers who explored the Loiusiana Territory |
| Stephen Douglas | Illinois Senator who introduced the Kansas Nebraska Act |
| Precedent | An act or statement that becomes an example, rule, or tradition to be followed |
| Seperation of Powers | Allotting of powers between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches |
| Checks and Balances | A system that makes sure that no branch has higher power than the others |
| Popular Sovereignty | Letting people in a territory decide wether to allow slavery there |
| Emancipation Proclimation | A proclimation that slaves in the areas of rebellion against the governmant would be free |
| 15th Amendment | No ctizen can be denied the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition |
| 13th Amendment | No slavery in the United States |
| 14th Amendment | Granting African Americans citizenship |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Under law, all citizens must help capture a runaway slave |
| Compromise of 1877 | The Democrats would give Hayes the victory. In return, Hayes would remove the South from militerization, and rebuild the levees along Miss. River |
| Compromise of 1850 | The compromise over if slavery would be allowed in the new territory |
| Nativism | A movement to ensure that native-born Americans received better treatment than immigrants |
| Impeach | Charging the president with wrong-doing |
| Black Codes | Codes in the South that restricted the rights of balcks |
| Lincoln | Permitted each Southeran state into the Union after 10 percent of the people swore allegience to the Union, created a new state constitution, which needed to ratify the Thirteenth amendment, Grants pardon to any Confederate |
| Johnson | Removed the ten percent, Allowed pardons to Confederate leaders |
| Grange | A protest group of farmers over tarrifs on machines, crops, and supplies |
| Exodusters | Blacks who ahve fled to the West to escape violence in the South |
| Abolitionists | A group that opposes slavery |
| Great Compromise | Called for a two house legislature with one house elected to the basis of population and the other representing each state equally |
| Oregon Trail | The main route across the vast central plains amd the Rocky Mountains |
| Vicksburg | A battle that cut the Mississippi River in the two, thereby cutting the Confederacy in two, sealing the South's fate |
| Natural Rights | Rights that belong to people simply because they're humans |
| How did we introduce slavery into America? | To supply the American foods European's demanded. And to work on plantation farms that were responsible for producing one cash crops |
| How did the Pilgrims come to the Nw World? | To escape religious perscution in Holland |
| How did the Native Americans pass down their history? | Orally |
| Transcendentalist Ideas | Man is good, man keeps getting better and better,and that they are gods |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the cruelties of slavery |
| Yorktown and Saratoga | Yorktown was a battle where General Washington won against General Cornwalis. Saratoga was the turning point that brought foreign aid to the revolution |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | An act that let people in Kansas and Nebraska choose wether they wanted slavery or not |
| Monroe Doctrine | A decleration by President Monroe that would oppose efforts by any outside power to control a nation in the Westran Hemisphere |
| What political party had the Trans Contenintal Railroad built? | Republican |
| Goals of Reconstruction | To rebuild the South, To give African Americans the right to vote and the right to own property, to pardon all military officials |
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