Term ID's for Lesson 8, 9, and 10

Vocabulary Words for Lesson 8, 9, and 10 - Dual Enrollement U.S. History

Alexander Hamilton

Secretary of Treasury under Washington, author of Report on Public Credit, and was killed by Burr during a duel

Henry Clay

Secretary of State that proposed the American System, a founder of the Whig Party, the Great Compromiser

James Madison

Father of the Consitution, author of the Bill of Rights, 4th U.S. President during the War of 1812

Seneca Falls Convention

The first major women’s rights convention held in New York to push for women to have the right to vote in 1848

James Monroe

5th U.S. President responsible for the Missouri Compromise and the Doctrine that bears his name

McCulloch vs. Maryland

Supreme Court case that declared that states could not tax the Federal government

Gibbons vs. Ogden

Supreme Court case that declared that interstate trade was controlled by the Federal government

Andrew Jackson

7th President of the U.S., responsible for the Spoils System, the Indian Removal Act, the Nullification Code, and the veto that killed the 2nd Bank of the U.S.

Samuel Slater

Father of the American Factory System, originally from England, had a textile factory in Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Nullification Crisis

1828-1832. Caused a near civil war in South Carolina. Caused by a high tarrif. The compromise was that the tarrif was lowered but President Jackson got the Force Bill

Transcendentalists

Stressed individualism, self-reliance, non-conformity, and a connection to nature. The main leaders of the movement were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Mant were closely tied to the Abololitionist movement.

Erie Canal

New York canal system connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes in 1825

Compromise of 1850

Key compromise in 1850 made California a free state, allowed for popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah territories, and led to the passage of the Fugative Slave Act

Herriet Beecher Stowe

Author of the bestselling abolitionist novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852

Nat Turner

Virginia slave that led a violent salve revolt in Southamton County, Virginia in 1831 to end the institution of slavery. One of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history

Robert E. Lee

Confederate commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, and became president of Washington College after the war

1st Battle of Bull Run

Ended with 5,000 casualties, first major battle of the war. Happened near Bull Run Creek in Manassas, Virginia. Both sides were untrained and undisciplined. Stonewall Jackson gained fame and his nickname.

Gettysburg Address

Given by Lincoln on November 1863 to commemorate a memorial and cemetery in honor to the men lost at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Morrill Land Grant Act

Proposed for the estalishment of land grant colleges like Virginia Tech and colleges for African Americans like Hampton University

13th Amendment

Amendment to the Consitution that abolished slavery at the end of the Civil War

Thomas Jefferson

3rd U.S. President that was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase and the Embargo and Nonintercourse Acts

Election of 1800

First time that power changed between two political parties peacefully. Jefferson won with Aaron Burr also on his ticket, and Hamilton backed Jefferson. Burr became TJ’s vice president, and the passage of the 12th Amendment. Two party system became prevalent.

Eli Whitney

Inventor of the Cotton Gin and interchangeable parts during the 1st Industrial Revolution

John Marshall

4th Supreme Court Justice from Virginia that ruled in numerous land mark decisions that strengthed the power of the Supreme Court and Federal government

Panic of 1837

Financial crisis or panic occured during the presidency of Martin Van Buren, led to high unemployement, economic downturn

War of 1812

Destructive U.S. war against England in the U.S. British weren’t allowing American trade, supplying Native Americans, and division over the Oregan Territory.

Commanwealth vs. Hunt

The court case that the Massachusetts Supreme Court that allowed labor unions to legally organize

Clara Barton

Union Civil War nurse and the founder of the Red Cross

Brigham Young

Second leader of the Mormon Church (after the death of Joseph Smith) that led them to Utah

Indian Removal Act/ Trail of Tears

Andrew Jackson’s administration was responsible for the Indian Removal Act, which led to the tragic event that sent Native American Tribes at gun point to territory in Oklahoma

Edgar Allen Poe

Wrote poems (The Raven) and thriller / mystery short stories (The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado) Had roots in Richmond, Va.

Charles Grandison Finney

Greatest revival preacher (Presbyterian) who led massive revivals in Rochester, New York and would later beome a major voice for the abolitionist movement. Proffesor at Oberlin College in Ohio. Father of the 2nd Great Awakening

Kansas-Nebraska Act

An 1854 bill that mandated popular sovereignty allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. It also repealed the Missouri Compromise.

Homestead Act 1862

Sold 160 acres of land in the West to anyone who agreed to settle for five years. Passed by Republicans

William Lloyd Garrison

Published the first edition of The Liberator, which is considered a cause of the Civil War. Radical Abolitionst, escaped a crowd that beat him and dragged him around Boston after he burnt a copy of the Constitution

Harriet Tubman

An escaped slave from Maryland that became one of the leading conductors on the Underground Railroad and a Union spy during the Civil War

Battle of Antietam

Civil War Battle fought in Sharpsburg, Maryland in 1862. It was the single bloodiest day of the war.

Ulysses S. Grant

Leading Union general in the Civil War and the 18th U.S. President

Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the U.S, the Republican that won the controversial U.S. presidential election of 1860, his election was one of the final events that brought the country into the Civil War.

14th Amendment

Ratified in 1868, grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, ensures equal protection under the law, and prohibits states from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process.

Louisiana Purchase

Made by Jefferson, doubled the size of the U.S.

James K. Polk

11th President of the U.S. brought Texas in as a slave state, gained the Oregan territory, declared war of Mexico, lowered the tariff, restored the independent treasury. Very complicated legacy

Susan B. Anthony

Helped to lead the Woman’s Sufferage Movement, campaigned against the 14th and 15th Amendments (inserted the word male into the Consitution), was arrested for voting in 1872.

Missouri Compromise

Key compromise in 1820 made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state, free and slave states have to be equal

Cyrus McCormick

Invented the Mechanical Reeper with Jo Anderson, and manufacted the Reaper in Chicago

Mexican War

Fought to achieve Manifest Destiny in the 1840’s

Monroe Doctrine

U.S. doctrine that declared that Europe could no longer invade nor colonize the Americas

Fedrick Douglass

The greatest African American abolitionist, great speaker and fought for the Abolitionist cause despite being beaten and harrased. Editor of the anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star. Took

2nd Great Awakening

Took off in the 1830’s and led to a tidal wave of spritual fervor that resulted in a number of new religious groups and reform movements.

Emancipation Proclamtion

Freed all slaves in the states in rebellion against the US (not the border states). An ambiguous threat to the South, but had a clear message.

Marbury v. Madison

Supreme Court case that led to the power of judicial review in 1803

Whig Party/ Know Nothing Party

Opposition to the Democratic Party. Whigs were a Federalist reboot, and Know Nothing were anti-immigration

Dred Scott - Scott v. Sandford

Slave that tried to gain freedom through the Supreme Court case. He didn’t win his case and the decision was one step closer to the Civil War. Court said he wasn’t a U.S. citizen, living in free territory didn’t make him free, Congress couldn’t ban slavery, and outlawed the Missouri Compromise

Gabriel Prosser

Led slave revolts in Henrico County, led to harsh laws in the South against fugitive slaves

Underground Railroad

Network of safe houses that Harriet Tubman and many others led slaves to freedom onP

Fort Sumter

Place of the first shots of the Civil War, in South Carolina

Battle of Gettysburg

Turning point battle of the Civil War and Union victory in Pennsylvania (July 1-3, 1863)

Battle of Vicksburg

A major Union victory where Grant’s army trapped the Confederates, forcing them to surrender and giving the Union control of the Mississippi River.

Appomattox Court House

Where Lee was surrounded and would surrender to Grant on April 9, 1865

15th Amendment

Granted the right to vote to all male citizens regardless of their ethnicity or prior slave status