American history review from the Early Republic to Reconstruction

Comprehensive practice flashcards covering the economic expansion, Antebellum period, Civil War, and Reconstruction units from the lecture notes.

Monroe Doctrine

A major policy or event established in $1823$.

Erie Canal

A transportation project whose completion occurred in $1825$.

Nullification Crisis

A political conflict that took place from $1832$ to $1833$.

Oregon Trail

An overland migration route established in $1843$.

First Intercity Telegraph Message

The milestone marking the start of the Communication Revolution in $1844$.

American System

A key economic term associated with Unit $8$ and the development of the American economy.

Agrarian Economy

An economy based on agriculture, listed as a key term in the American Economy and Expansion unit.

Industrial Economy

An economy based on manufacturing, listed as a key term in the context of American expansion.

Nat Turner's Rebellion

An uprising that occurred in $1831$ during the Antebellum Era.

Mexican American War

A military conflict that lasted from $1846$ to $1848$, resulting in the Mexican Cession.

California Gold Rush

A period of rapid migration to California beginning in $1849$.

Compromise of $1850$

A legislative package that included the Fugitive Slave Law.

Kansas Nebraska Act

An act passed in $1854$ which became a key term of sectionalism in the Antebellum Era.

Dred Scott vs Sandford

A landmark Supreme Court case that took place in $1857$, listed as a key term in Unit $9$.

John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry

A significant event that occurred in $1859$ involving an attempt to initiate a slave revolt.

Manifest Destiny

A belief or doctrine during the Antebellum Era concerning the expansion of the United States.

Sectionalism

A key term describing the growing divide between Northern and Southern states before the Civil War.

Battle of Fort Sumter

A conflict in $1861$ that marked the start of the Civil War.

Battle of Antietam

A major Civil War battle that took place in $1862$, following the First Battle of Bull Run.

Siege of Vicksburg

A military campaign occurring from May $23$ to July $4$, $1863$.

Battle of Gettysburg

A pivotal Civil War battle fought from July $1$ to July $3$, $1863$, in Pennsylvania.

Sherman's March to the Sea

A destructive military campaign through Georgia conducted in $1864$, following the Overland Campaign.

Battle of Appomattox Court House

The site of a conflict in $1865$ where the surrender of the Confederacy occurred, the same year Lincoln was assassinated.

Anaconda Plan

A strategic plan proposed for the Union during the Civil War.

Emancipation Proclamation

The executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War regarding the status of slaves.

General Robert E. Lee

The commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War.

General Ulysses S. Grant

The Union general who employed a superior strategy to defeat the South.

Jefferson Davis

The President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

Attrition

A strategy mentioned as a key term in the Civil War unit used to wear down the enemy.

Total War

A military strategy associated with General Sherman and General Grant in Unit $10$.

Second Great Awakening

A religious revial movement ($1790\text{'s}-1840\text{'s}$) that spread christianty and inspired reform movements; leaders included chores grandan finny and lignon Beecher.

Missouri Compromise

An $1820$ agreement that designated missourie as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

Seneca Falls Convention

An $1848$ event described as the first woman rights convection.

Temperance Movement

A movement from the $1820\text{'s}$ to the $1840\text{'s}$ to reduce or ban alcohol, supported by the American temprance Society.

Abolitionist movement

A movement from the $1830\text{'s}$ to the $1860\text{'s}$ to end slavery; leaders included fredrick douglas and willan loyd garrison.

Transcendentalism

An $1830\text{'s}$ philsoply stressing nature, self reliance and induvials thought, led by Ralph waldo Emerson and henry david Thorea.

Concord Hymn

A poem written in $1837$ by Ralph waldo honoring the battles of leviston and concord.

Radical Republicans

A group of politicians who played a major role during the Reconstruction era following the Civil War.

Black Codes

Laws passed in the South during Reconstruction to restrict the rights of formerly enslaved people.

Freedmen's Bureau

An agency established during Reconstruction to aid formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South.

Reconstruction Acts of $1867$

Legislation that outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union.

Compromise of $1877$

An informal deal that settled the disputed $1876$ presidential election and ended the Reconstruction era.

$13$ Amendment

The constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.

$14$ Amendment

The constitutional amendment that granted citizenship and equal legal and civil rights to African Americans.

$15$ Amendment

The constitutional amendment that prohibited the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Bill of Rights Amendment $1$

Guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.

Bill of Rights Amendment $8$

Protects against excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishments.

Delaware/DE

The first state to achieve statehood, occurring in $1787$.

Hawaii/HI

The $50\text{th}$ state to achieve statehood, occurring in $1959$.