Untitled Flashcards Set

Unit 5 Vocab:

Abraham Lincoln

Jefferson Davis

“the Contrabands”

Radical Republicans

Emancipation Proclamation

Second American Revolution

Homestead Act

transcontinental railroad

The U.S.-Dakota War

Sand Creek Massacre

Navajo Long Walk

Sanitary Fairs

“King Cotton Diplomacy”

Robert E. Lee

Ulysses S. Grant

Battle of Gettysburg

Sea Islands experiment

Ten-Percent Plan of Reconstruction

Wade-Davis Bill

Thirteenth Amendment

Appomattox Courthouse

Unit 4 Vocab:

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  • “Cotton is king”

  • Second Middle Passage

  • paternalism

  • proslavery argument

  • Underground Railroad

  • Harriet Tubman

  • Nat Turner

  • Temperance movement

  • Common schools

  • American Colonization Society

  • American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Birthright citizenship (p. 359)

  • Woman suffrage

  • The Grimké sisters (p. 358)

  • Feminism

  • Self-ownership

  • Texas revolt

  • Mexican War













  • Gold rush

  • Commodore Matthew Perry

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • Free Soil Party

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Act

  • Popular sovereignty

  • Texas revolt

  • Mexican War

  • Gold rush

  • Commodore Matthew Perry

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • Free Soil Party

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Act

  • Popular sovereignty

Unit 3 Vocab:



  • Articles of Confederation

  • Ordinance of 1784

  • Ordinance of 1785

  • Northwest Ordinance of 1787

  • empire of liberty

  • Shay’s Rebellion

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Virginia Plan

  • New Jersey Plan

  • federalism

  • division of powers

  • checks and balances

  • separation of powers

  • The Federalist

  • Anti-Federalists

  • Bill of Rights

  • Treaty of Greenville

  • annuity system

  • assimilation 

  • gradual emancipation 

  • Notes on the State of Virginia

  • Bank of the United States

  • Federalists and Republicans

  • Judith Sargent Murray

  • Marbury v. Madison

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa

  • War of 1812=

  • steamboat

  • Erie Canal

  • Cotton Kingdom

  • cotton gin

  • nativism

  • manifest destiny

  • Second Great Awakening

  • individualism

  • cult of domesticity

  • family wage

  • Democracy in America

  • McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

  • The American System

  • Era of Good Feelings

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • spoils system

  • nullification crisis

  • Indian Removal Act

  • Worcester v. Georgia

  • Trail of Tears



Unit 2 Vocab / Timeline: 

Use your textbook to find the missing dates. Add them below.


Timeline 1:

16 :    Locke’s Two Treatises of 

Government published

1700: Samuel Sewall, The Selling of 

Joseph, first anti-slavery tract in 

America 

1730s: Beginnings of the Great Awakening

1739:  Stono Rebellion

1754:  Albany Plan of Union proposed

1756-1763:Seven Years War

1760: George III assumes the throne

1763: Pontiac’s War

1763: Proclamation of 1763

1764 : Sugar Act

1765: Stamp Act

1765: Sons of Liberty Organized

1767: Townshend Acts

1768: British troops stationed in Boston

17__: Boston Massacre

1770s: Enslaved people begin presenting 

freedom petitions to courts and 

legislatures










Timeline 2:

1773: Tea Act 

1773: Boston Tea Party

1774: Intolerable Acts

17: First Continental Congress

1775: Battles of Lexington and Concord

1775: Lord Dunmore’s proclamation

1776: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is 

published

1776: Declaration of Independence

17__: Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations

1778: Treaty with France

1779: Thomas Jeffferson writes Bill for 

Establishing Religious Freedom

1781: Cornwallis (British General) 

surrenders to the American rebels at 

Yorktown

17_: Treaty of Paris (colonies are 

independent of the British Empire)

1783: Elizabeth Freeman’s and Quick 

Walker’s freedom suits result in the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts

1789: The Interesting Narrative of the Life 

of Olaudah Equiano published

Unit 1 Vocab

Timeline 1:

7000 BCE: Agriculture develops in Mexico 

and Andes, ca. 

4th century: Christianity spreads from Africa 

and the Mediterranean to Europe, 

7th century: Islam founded and quickly 

expanded in Arabia,. 

1050-ca. 1200: Height of Cahokia, ca. 

1200: Rise of Mali and Benin, ca. 

1400: Haudenosaunee (“Iroquois”) League 

established (ca.)

1492: The Reconquista of Spain was 

completed, in 

1492: Columbus’s first voyage to the 

Americas, 

1517: Martin Luther publishes his 

Ninety-Five Theses, starting the 

Reformation, 

16th century: Tudor enclosure policies 

create “surplus” population in 

England, 

Las Casas criticizes colonization in his History of the Indes








Timeline 2:

1607: Jamestown established, 

1610-1614: First Anglo-Powhatan War, 

1619: First Africans arrive in Virginia, 

Pilgrims found Plymouth

Massachusetts Bay Colony founded, Great Migration to New England begins

1636- 1637: Pequot War 

1637: Anne Hutchinson’s trial in 

Massachusetts, 

 1676: Bacon’s Rebellion,

1692: Salem Witch Trials, 

1705: Virginia creates a slave code, 

1729-1730: Natchez War, 

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