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Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the United States. -
Abolitionism
Abolitionism, used as a single word, was a movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal. The term has become adopted by those seeking the abolishment of any perceived injustice to a group of people. There are abolition movements to end human trafficking, the sex slave trafficking, abortion, children used in war, and many others. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historical movement to end the African slave trade and set slaves free. -
Sarah Grimké and Sarah Moore Grimké
American abolitionist, writer, and suffragist. -
Louisiana Purchase
Bought in 1803 and consisted of 828,000 square miles. The U.S. paied 15 million dollars for the Louisiana Purchase. The Purchase encompassed all or part of 15 U.S states. -
Lewis and Clark
Kown as the first cross county expidition. The expidition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferso. The expidition lasted 2 yearsThe primary objective was to explore and map the newly acquired territory and, by following the Missouri river northwest to see if it was connected or came close enough to the Columbia river, which flowed on to the Pacific Ocean. The expidition ended in 1806. -
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. Garrison was also a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement. -
JEFFERSON DAVIS
Jefferson Davis was born on June 3, 1808 and died December 6, 1889.He was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States. -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. -
Missouri Compromise
It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory except missouri. To balance the number of "slave states" and "free states," the northern region of what was then Massachusetts was admitted into the United States as a free state to become Maine. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Doctrine noted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries. The Doctrine was issued at a time when nearly all Latin American colonies of Spain and Portugal had achieved independence from the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire. The United States, working in agreement with Britain, wanted to guarantee no European power would move in. -
Erie Canal
The canal was first proposed in 1807 and was under construction from 1817 to 1825 and opened on October 26, 1825. It was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard and the great lakes. This made transporting good faster, cheaper and more efficient. -
nate turner
Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55–65 white people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the South. The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for over two months afterward. -
Nullification Crisis
This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina. -
William T Sherman
-civil war
-union army
-bull run
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Wilmot Proviso
one of the major events leading to the American Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession -
Thomas Edison
Contrary to popular belief, Thomas Edison was not born into poverty in a backwater mid-western town. Actually, he was born -on Feb. 11, 1847 - to middle-class parents in the bustling port of Milan, Ohio, a community that - next to Odessa, Russia - was the largest wheat shipping center in the world. In 1854, his family moved to the vibrant city of Port Huron, Michigan, which ultimately surpassed the commercial preeminence of both Milan and Odessa. -
Samuel Gompers
an English-born American cigar maker who became a labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894 and from 1895 until his death in 1924. He promoted harmony among the different craft unions that comprised the AFL, trying to minimize jurisdictional battles. -
Kansas–Nebraska Act
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement -
Dred Scott Case
slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permiting slavery in all of the country's territories -
Ida Tarbell
an American teacher, author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era. She wrote many notable magazine series and biographies. She is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company, which was listed as No. 5 in a 1999 list by New York University of the top 100 works of 20th-century American journalism. She became the first woman to take on Standard Oil. Her direct forerunner was Henry Demarest Lloyd. She began her work on The -
John Brown's Raid
attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Robert E Lee
-Confederate general
-civil war
-confederate states of america -
Stonewall Jackson
-Civil War
-confederate army
-many civil war battles
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President Lincoln
-abolished slavery
-was in the civil war
-16th president
-killed by john wilks booth
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FORT SUMTER
Named after General Thomas Sumter, Revolutionary War hero.The Battle of Fort Sumter take place on April 12–14, 1861. It started the American Civil War. -
ANTIETAM
It was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with 22,717 dead, wounded and missing on both sides combined. -
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
The Emancipation Proclamation is an order issued to all segments of the Executive branch of the United States including the Army and the Navy by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. It was based on the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief of the armed forces.. -
VICKSBURG
The Siege of Vicksburg started May 18 and ended July 4, 1863 was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.3,202 killed or wounded
and 29,495 captured. -
GETTYSBURG
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1 through 3, 1863 in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point. -
13th AMENDMENT
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws slavery, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed it to have been adopted. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted after the American Civil War. -
BATTLE OF ATLANTA
The Battle of Atlanta was a battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Continuing their summer campaign to seize the important rail and supply center of Atlanta, Union forces commanded by William T. Sherman overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces -
14th AMENDMENT
The Fourteenth Amendment was to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.Its Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship that overruled the Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857.It had held that people of African descent could not be citizens of the United States. -
Ulysses S. Grant
-18th president
-general in the civil war
-republican
-defeated Robert E Lee at Appomatix -
15 th AMENDMENT
The Fifteenth Amendment was to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was ratified on February 3, 1870. -
Jim Crow
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated. -
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
an American author and one-time candidate for governor of California who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle. It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.[1] Time magazine called him -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years. This law was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943. -
Seneca Falls Conference
The Seneca Falls Convention was an early and influential women's rights convention, the first to be organized by women in the Western world, in Seneca Falls, New York. It was planned by local New York women upon the occasion of a visit by Philadelphia-based Lucretia Mott, a Quaker famous for her oratorical ability, a skill rarely cultivated by American women at the time. The local women, primarily members of a radical Quaker group, organized the meeting along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. -
American Federation of Labor
Founded in Columbus Ohio in May 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor association. The AFL was the largest union grouping in the United States for the first half of the 20th century, even after the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations by unions that were expelled by the AFL in 1935 over its opposition to industrial unionism. -
Sitting Bull
a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement. -
Wounded Knee
It was the last battle of the American Indian Wars. On the day before, a detachment of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside intercepted Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them five miles westward to Wounded Knee Creek where they made camp. -
1894 Pullman Srike
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict in the summer of 1894 between the new American Railway Union and railroads that occurred in the United States. It shut down much of the nation's freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit, Michigan. The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois, on May 11 when nearly 4,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages. -
Manifest Destiny
In the United States in the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent. -
Ellis Island
Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1924. The island was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990. A 1998 United Sta -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
