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Survival Guide
Survival Guide History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A primary source document | manuscript, records or documents providing original research or documentation |
| Artifact | is a tool, article of clothing, or other object made and used by people |
| The causes of the American Revolution | include the Stamp Act, the Quartering Act, the Intolerable Acts, the Boston Massacre, and the Boston Tea Party |
| Battle of Lexington | was the first Battle of the American Revolution |
| Battle of Yorktown | The last major battle of the American Revolution was won in 1781 by combined American and French troops |
| The Declaration of Independence | is the document stating that the 13 colonies separated themselves from Britain |
| The Treaty of Paris | 1783 is the document that officially ended the war, The British officially acknowledged the independence of the colonies |
| Patriot | is a colonist who supported American Independence at the time of the Revolutionary War |
| Loyalist | is a colonist who remained loyal to Britain during the Revolutionary War |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence, he was the third presidentresponsible for the Louisiana Purchase. |
| George Washington | was the commander of the Continental Army, signed the US Constitution, and became the first President of the United States. |
| Benjamin Franklin | signed three important documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Paris, and the Constitution. He was a great scientist as well as a writer and publisher. |
| Louisiana Purchase | the United States’ purchase from France in 1803 of land west of the Mississippi River. It doubled the size of the United States |
| Lewis and Clark | led the expedition in 1804 |
| The Second Great Awakening | a revival of religious faith in the early 1800’s |
| The Missouri Compromise of 1820 | is a line westward from Missouri’s southern border that marked the division between slave and free states. It divided the Louisiana Territory, keeping an even balance in the Senate. |
| Monroe Doctrine | is President Monroe’s 1823 warning against European colonization in the Americas. |
| Trail of tears | is the forced journey of Cherokee Indians from their homes in Georgia to lands in the West |
| Manifest destiny | is the idea that it was the nation’s destiny to expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean |
| Texas Revolution | a rebellion in late 1835 by residents of Texas and North Mexico against the Mexican government and military. It led to the establishment of the Independent Republic of Texas. This short lived Republic was annexed by the United States as a state in 1845. |
| Battle of the Alamo | the 1836 attack on the Alamo mission in San Antonio by Mexican forces during the Texas Revolution, where Texas was defeated |
| Jacksonian democracy | the emerging democratic spirit in the United States after Andrew Jackson’s election as President in 1828. He favored Indian removal |
| The Dred Scott case | the 1857 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens and that Congress could not forbid slavery in the territories |
| Slave codes | laws that denied enslaved Africans most of their rights |
| The Civil War | was fought between the Union(North) and Confederate States of America(South), from 1861 |
| Secede | to withdraw from the Union |
| Abraham Lincoln | was the US President at the time of the Civil War. He believed and succeeded in abolishing slavery |
| Jefferson Davis | was the President of the Confederate States of America at the time of the Civil War. He believed that allowing slavery should be decided by each individual state. |
| Abolitionist | is a person who worked in the movement to do away with slavery |
| Battle of Gettysburg | is the greatest single battle of the Civil War, won by the Union in Pennsylvania in 1863 |
| Gettysburg Address | was a famous speech made by Abraham Lincoln explaining the purpose of the Civil War |
| Battle of Vicksburg | is the Union capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi of the Civil War is 1863 |
| Ulysses S Grant | was the Union commander during the Civil War and later became President of the United States |
| Robert E Lee | was a Confederate general in the Civil War |
| Emancipation Proclamation | is the announcement on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln that all slaves in Confederate territory would be considered free |
| Antebellum period | is the period before and leading to the Civil War |
| Reconstruction | is the period after the Civil War, lasting from 1865 |
| Suffrage | is the right to vote |
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