Webquest 2

Birth of a Nation Webquest Words
1. Articles of Confederation: Original federal constitution drafted by the continental congress.
2. Shay’s Rebellion: Farmers rebellion led by Daniel Shays against higher taxes in Massachusetts.
3. Great Compromise: A compromise between Virginia and New Jersey plan for bicameral legislature.
4. federalism: politic system in which power is shared between the national and state governments
5. Three-Fifth’s Compromise: a compromise in which each enslaved person would be counted as 3/5 of a person for the purpose of legislative representation.
6. Whiskey Rebellion: 1794 uprising in western Pennsylvania that opposed to federal tax on whiskey
7. Little Turtle: Was a chief of a Miami tribe in what is today Indiana and one of the most successful Native American.
8. Alien and Sedition Acts: 1798 acts that allowed the gov. to send immigrants back to their country if they talked bad about government.
9. Northwest Ordnance of 1787: law in which provided a basis for governing the north west territory
10. Louisiana Purchase: 1803 purchase from France by the U.S
11.Monroe Doctrine : foreign policy set forth by president Monroe in 1823
12.impressments: policy of seizing people or poverty for military and public services
13.Star Spangled Banner: poem written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 that became national anthem.
14. Eerie Canal: canal completed in 1825 that connected Lake Erie to Hudson River.
15. Samuel Slater: was an early American industrialist popularly known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution"
16.Eli Whitney: He invented the cotton gin in the U.S by stealing the idea from England.
17. Horace Mann the largest national multilane insurance company serving America's educators and their families.18.Temperance Movement: movement that wanted to stop alcohol abuse, because it was causing a lot of problems.
18. Temperance Movement: movement aimed at stopping alcohol abused and problems created by it.
19. Seneca Falls Convention: held in NY in 1848 the first women’s right conventions in the U.S.
20. Indian Removal Act: act passed by congress in 1830 that allowed federal government to negotiate land trades with Indians in the South West.
21. Alamo: fortified former mission in San Antonio was the site of 1836 defeat of Texans by Mexicans troops.
22. Frederick Douglas: born into slavery and is best known for his role in bringing the harsh realities of slavery to the attention of white Americans
23. William Lloyd Garrison: known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society
24. Missouri Compromise: 1820 agreement calling for Missouri as a slave state
25. Nullification Crisis: concept in which state could nullify or void any federal paper.
26. Wilmot Proviso: proposed but rejected ,1846 bill that would have banned slavery
27. Compromise of 1850: political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state.
28. Underground Railroad: was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to Free states and Canada.
29. Harriet Beecher Stowe: was an American abolitionist and author of abolitionist books.
30. Kansas-Nebraska Act: 1854 law that divided The Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska giving each state the right to choose if they would be for or against slavery
31. John Brown: was an American abolitionist
32. Nat Turner: was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 deaths
33. Dred Scott: was a slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully in St. Louis, Missouri for his freedom in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857
34. Jefferson Davis was an American military officer, statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
35. Robert E Lee: was a career United States Army officer, a combat engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history
36. Anaconda Plan Northern civil war strategy to starve the south by blockading the seaports and controlling the Mississippi river
37. border state: During the civil war were the states that allowed slavery but remained in the Union.
38. Stonewall Jackson: Was an confederate general during civil war
39. George McClellan: was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac.
40. Ulysses S Grant: served as the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877
41. Antietam 1862 civil war battle in which 23,000 troops were killed or wounded in 1 day.
42. Gettysburg: was a battle fought in Gettysburg in PA during civil war, it was the turning point of the war.
43. Vicksburg: Confederate Stronghold on the Mississippi river that surrounded to Union Forces
44. Emancipation Proclamation: decree by president Lincoln that freed enslaved people living in free states
45. conscription: drafting of citizens into military services
46. total war: Military strategy in which an army attacks not only enemies but the civilians and whoever get in their ways
47. William Sherman: was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the civil war
48. John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington and then ended up dying.