U.s History

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Abolitionism

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The belief that slavery should be geting rid off

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Tarriff

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A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.

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Nat Turner

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An enslaved African American who led the Nat Turner's slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831, that resulted in the deaths of 55 to 65 white people.

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Nullification

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To cancel an certain thing

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John Brown

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An abolitionist, whom was an priest , of the nineteenth century who sought to free the slaves by military force. He used the bible to support his decision.

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Gettysburg Address

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A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldier's National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.

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William Lloyd Garrison

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A prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. . One of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

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Sarah and Angeline Grimke

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The Grimke sisters, were the first American female advocates of abolition and women's rights. They were writers, orators, and educators.

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Compromise of 1850

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A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War

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Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

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In this court case, The Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories.

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Resconstruction Act of 1867

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This passed into an law on March 2, 1867 over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. The actapplied to all the ex-Confederate states in the South, except Tennessee who had already ratified the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Abraham Lincoln

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16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) Abraham Lincoln

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Second Inaugural Address

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A speech given by Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration for a second term as president, a few weeks before the Union victory in the Civil War.

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Andrew Johnson

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17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. ... The first American president to be impeached, he was acquitted in the Senate by one vote.

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Hiram Revels

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An minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), a Republican politician, and college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War.

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Chief Justice Roger Taney

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He is remembered for his ruling that slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens ( Dred Scott Case )

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Stonewall Jackson

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He got his nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run, where he and his men “stood like a stone wall.” He and General Robert E. Lee led the South to victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

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Missouri Compromise

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A settlement of a dispute between slave and free states, contained in several laws passed during 1820 and 1821. Northern legislators had tried to prohibit slavery in Missouri, which was then applying for statehood.

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Wilmot Proviso

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It prohibited the expansion of slavery into any territory acquired by the United States from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War settlement.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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This law allowed citizens in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide locally whether to allow slavery.

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Bleeding Kansas

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It was an series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern yankees" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861, including "Bleeding Congress".

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Thaddeus Stevens

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An member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s.

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Tarrif of Abominations

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An protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States.

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13th Ammendment

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This ammendment declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

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Mexican-American War

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A war fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo . Ended the Mexican-American War

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Congressional Reconstruction

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was Congress's attempt at Reconstruction after they overtook Johnson.

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Raid on Harper’s Fury

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an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

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Suspension of heabeas corpus

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an Act of Congress that authorized the president of the United States to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in response to the United States Civil War

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Robert E. Lee

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One of generals during Civil War

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Impeachment

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A formal accusation of wrongdoing against a public official.

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14th Amendment

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The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.

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Anaconda Plan

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The name applied to an outline strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War.

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Antietam

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Bloodiest single day battle in Civil War

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Popular sovereignty

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People have power

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Mexican Cession

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Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848

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36^30 North Latitude

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The line that effectively divides the North and South

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Slave Code

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state laws established to determine the status of slaves and the rights of their owners.

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Freedmen’s Bureau

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U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freedmen (freed slaves) in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States

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Tenant Farming

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Someone whom farms rented land.

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Black Codes

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Laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War.

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Fugitive Slave Law

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A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states.

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Ruherford B.Hayes

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The 19th President of the United States; his administration removed federal troops from the South and so ended the Reconstruction Period (1822-1893)

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Sante Fe Trail

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The route over which settlers traveled to Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s; trails branched off from it toward Utah and California.

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Fort Sumter

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Whether the first shot of the Civil War was fired, and the first battle of Civil War

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Manifest Destiny

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Belief it is the U.S’s god given right to conquer land to the west.

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Turning point of Civil War

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Ku Klux Klan

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An secret society in the southern U.S. that focuses on white supremacy and terrorizes other groups.

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Jefferson Davis

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Leader of Confederates

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Battle of Atlanta

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was a battle of the AtlantaCampaign fought during the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia.