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Eli Whitney
American inventor best known for the cotton gin. -
Manifest Destiny
Belief that American settlers should take over the whole continent -
Abolitionism
Movement to end slavery -
Louisiana Purchase
Acquisition of France territory (Louisiana). Cost was $11,250,000 plus cancelation of debt worth $3,750,00. -
Frederick Douglass
1818-1895
Freed slave. Leader of the abolitionist movement -
Missouri Compromise
Prevented slavery in former Louisiana territory. -
Erie Canal
Canal in New York that runs about 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo. -
Nate Turner
Led slave rebellion that resulted in 60 white deaths and 100 black deaths. -
Nullification Crisis
Declared that by power of the state that federal tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and nullified. -
Wilmot Proviso
Banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican American war. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women’s rights activist and abolitionist -
Seneca Falls Conference
Women’s rights convention, first of its time in the western world. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
Created territories of Kansas and Nebraska, repelled Missouri Compromise. -
Battle of Antietam
It was the first battle major on union soil. Bloodiest single day in American History. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Freed all slaves in the south. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Yielded command of the Mississippi. Union win. -
Gettysburg
Bloodiest battle, union nguyen, turning point. -
Monroe Doctrine
U.S. policy that stated that further efforts by Europe to colonize American land would be viewed as act of aggression. -
Battle for Atlanta
Union forces commanded by Sherman to seize Atlanta -
13th amendment
Abolished slavery in the United States. -
14th amendment
Citizenship clause-definition of citizenship
Due process clause-ensures fairness of law
Equal protection clause-protection to all people -
15th amendment
It prevented racism in voting. -
Compromise of 1877
“the great betrayal”
Ended Reconstruction in the south -
Grimke Sisters
Southern Quakers, educators and writers that supported abolitionism and women’s rights -
William Lloyd Garrison
Wrote newspaper “The Liberator” and was one of the founders of American Anti-Slavery Society.
