Birth Of Nation Webquest Words

Birth of a Nation Webquest Words

1. Articles of Confederation - the first constitution of the 13 American states, adopted in 1781 and replaced in 1789 by the Constitution of the United States.
2. Shay’s Rebellion - was an armed uprising in Central and Western Massachusetts, (mainly Springfield) from 1786 to 1787. The rebels were led by Daniel Shays and known as Shaysites (Regulators),
3. Great Compromise - compromise was reached yesterday (June 29th, 1787) in Philadelphia combining the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan. This has been a major conflict for quite a while.
4. federalism - the federal principle of government.
5. Three-Fifth’s Compromise - a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the population of slaves
6. Whiskey Rebellion - a revolt of settlers in western Pennsylvania in 1794 against a federal excise tax on whiskey: suppressed by militia called out by President George Washington to establish the authority of the federal government
7. Little Turtle - 1752?–1812, leader of the Miami tribe.
8. Alien and Sedition Acts - A series of laws, passed during the presidency of John Adams at the end of the eighteenth century, that sought to restrict the public activities of political radicals who sympathized with the French Revolution and criticized Adams's Federalist policies
9. Northwest Ordnance of 1787 - An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio
10. Louisiana Purchase - A territory of the western United States extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains between the Gulf of Mexico and the Canadian border.
11. Monroe Doctrine - the policy, as stated by President Monroe in 1823, that the U.S. opposed further European colonization of and interference with independent nations in the Western Hemisphere.
impressments- the act of impressing people or property into public service or use.
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13. Star Spangled Banner- the national anthem of the United States of America, based on a poem written by Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, andset by him to the melody of the English song To Anacreon in Heaven: officially adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1931.
14. Eerie Canal - is a waterway in New York that runs about 363 miles from Albany, New York on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes
15. Samuel Slater- 1768–1835, U.S. industrialist, born in England.
16. Eli Whitney- 1765–1825, U.S. manufacturer and inventor.
17. Horace Mann- 1796–1859, U.S. educational reformer: instrumental in establishing the first normal school in the U.S. 1839.
18. Temperance Movement- is a social movement against the use of alcoholic beverages.
Seneca Falls Convention- a women's rights convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
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20. Indian Removal Act- Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States expanded into the lower South, white settlers faced what they considered an obstacle. This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations.
Alamo- Southwestern U.S.
a poplar.
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22. Frederick Douglas- Frederick Douglass was a former slave who became one of the great American anti-slavery leaders of the 1800s.
23. William Lloyd Garrison- 1805–79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
Missouri Compromise- an act of Congress (1820) by which Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N, except for Missouri.
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25. Nullification Crisis- was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification.
26. Wilmot Proviso- one of the major events leading to the 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, but which some proponents construed to also include the disputed lands in south Texas and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande.[
27. Compromise of 1850- A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides.
Underground Railroad- Also called underground railway. a railroad running through a continuous tunnel, as under city streets; subway.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe- Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act- the act of Congress in 1854 annulling the Missouri Compromise, providing for the organization of the territories of Kansasand Nebraska, and permitting these territories self-determination on the question of slavery.
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31. John Brown- 1800–59, U.S. abolitionist: leader of the attack at Harpers Ferry, where he was captured, tried for treason, and hanged.
32. Nat Turner- 1800–31, American black slave leader: led uprising of slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, 1831.
33. Dred Scott- 1795?–1858, a black slave whose suit for freedom (1857) was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court Dred Scott Decision on the grounds that a slave was not a citizen and therefore could not sue in a federal court.
34. Jefferson Davis- 1808–89, U.S. statesman: president of the Confederate States of America 1861–65.
35. Robert E Lee- 1807–70, U.S. soldier and educator: Confederate general in the American Civil War (son of Henry Lee).
36. Anaconda Plan- is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War.
border state- U.S. History. the slave states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, which refused to secede from the Union in 1860–61.
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38. Stonewall Jackson- 1824–63, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
39. George McClellan- 1826–85, Union general in the American Civil War.
40. Ulysses S Grant- 1822–85, 18th president of the U.S. 1869–77: Union general in the Civil War.
Antietam- a creek flowing from S Pennsylvania through NW Maryland into the Potomac: Civil War battle fought near here at Sharpsburg,Maryland, in 1862.
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Gettysburg- a borough in S Pennsylvania: Confederate forces defeated in a crucial battle of the Civil War fought near here on July 1–3, 1863; national cemetery and military park.
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Vicksburg- a city in W Mississippi, on the Mississippi River: important Civil War siege and Confederate surrender 1863. 25,434.
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Emancipation Proclamation- the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union.
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conscription- a compulsory contribution of money to a government during a time of war.
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46. total war- a war in which every available weapon is used and the nation's full financial resources are devoted
47. William Sherman- 1820–91, Union general in the Civil War.
48. John Wilkes Booth- 1838–65, U.S. actor: assassin of Abraham Lincoln (brother of Edwin Thomas Booth).