U.S. History Top 85

Organized the Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights Movement in the US

The year the U.S. Constitution was signed

Each branch of government has power to check or control the actions of other branches

A member of the Sons of Liberty who started the Committees of Correspondence

Bloodiest single day of the Civil War

An agreement signed by Pilgrims in 1620 promising to consult one another about laws for colony.

Came up with idea that governments should be divided into 3 separate branches

Protected rights of English citizens and became the basis for the American Bill of Rights

Founder of Pennsylvania; promised religious freedom to all people especially Quakers

Poet and playwright who wrote plays that made fun of British-plays propaganda prior to Am.Rev

General of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the North

An escaped slave who became a conductor of Underground Railroad;helped over 300 slaves escape

Ended French and Indian War and effectively kicked the French out of North America

Lee surrendered to Grant here to end Civil War

Organized the Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights Movement int he United States

A tax placed on goods from another country to protect the home industry

A policy of establishing principles and procedures for orderly expansion of the United States

Law forbidding English colonists from settling west of Appalachian Mountains.

General of the Confederate Army during Civil War

A foreign policy statementby Monroe stating that the US would not interfere in European affairs

Created the idea of checks and balances

Years of the Civil War

King of England who taxed colonists; refused Olive Branch Petition

Financier for colonies during Revolution; loaned money to US to help them fight Great Britain

First shots of the Civil War were fired here

Helped during Revolution by buying Spanish weapons/supplies for colonial army

Founder of Pennsylvania and promised religious freedom to all people especially Quakers

The first representative assembly in the New World

Author of Declaration of Independence; founder of Democratic-Republican Party

He said that all men are born with natural rights that should be protected by govt.

President of the Confederacy during the Civil War

When was Declaration of Independence signed?

South Carolina Congressman and Senator who spoke for the South before and during Civil War

Statement written by woman's rights supporters that was modeled after Declaration of Independen

Sharing of power between the state and national government

Powerful Kentucky congressman & senator who proposed Missouri Compromise & Compromise of 1850

Anti-Federalist who strongly opposed the ratification of the Constitution

A campaign against the sale and drinking of alcohol

First permanent English settlement founded in 1607

Wrote Common Sense and The Crisis pamplets to encourage American independence

Organized public education movement and is known as the "Father of Education"

Freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with little govt. regulation

Belief that the US should own all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Created by Sons of Liberty to help towns & colonies share info about resisting British laws

Advised US to avoid national debt, spoke against foreign alliances; said no to political party

Slave who served as a spy for the Americans during the Revolution by posing as a runaway slave

Trading system in which goods and slaves moved between the colonies, Africa and the West Indies

Capture of this Mississippi town by North in 1863 split South in two

System of government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

First battles of the American Revolution

The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal

Was meant to help heal and restore the country after four years of Civil War

This invention revolutionized transportation and trade in the US and was by Robert Fulton

He was responsible for the murder of Abraham Lincoln

Leader of the original Democratic-Republican Party; "President of the people"; Trail of Tears

Former slave who became the best-known black ablolitionist in the country

Author of the Monroe Doctrine which shut down Western Hemisphere to European expansion

American victory that signaled the end of the American Revolution

Escaped slave who became a conductor on Underground Railroad and helped to freedom in the North

An invention by Eli Whitney that sped up the process of cleaning cotton fibers

Signed in 1215, limiting the power of the ruler

African-American "midnight rider" who rode through Massachusetts warning colonists of British

Founded the colony of Georgia as a safe place for debtors and prisoners

Practice of creating and maintaining wealth by carefully controlling trade

Turning point of American Revolution

Married to John Adams and spoke out about women's rights in the new constitution

Invention by Eli Whitney that called for making each vital part of a product exactly the same

Considered the "Father of the Constitution"

Leader of Federalist Party, first Treasurer of US, killed in a duel by VP of the US, Aaron Burr

Ended American Revolution and forced Britain to recognize the US as an independent nation

Purchased by Thomas Jefferson in 1803; doubled size of the United States

Person opposed to slavery

Author of the Monroe Doctrine,which shut down the Western Hemisphere to European Expansion.

To refuse to buy certain goods, a common protest method used before the American Revolution

Supreme Court case that said slaves were property and not citizens

The banning of all trade with a country

Court case that gave Supreme Court right to determine if a law is constitutional;judical review

Supporters of the US Constitution who favored a strong national government

An African American regiment during Civil War that played a key role in attack of Fort Wagner

Organized the public education movement and is known as the "Father of Education"

The first American constitution that was very weak and limited power of Congress

People opposed to Constitution, wanting state governments to have more power than national govt

System of government where each branch of government has its own powers

Washington's encampment during winter of 1777-78; more than 1/5 of soldiers disease/starvation

Massachusetts congressman and senator who spoke for the North and preservation of the Union