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A war fought between the English and the French for colonial domination. This war helped escalade tensions into the Revolutionary War.

An act that made every written document have to have a stamp on it. The stamps would also have to be bought.

This war was between the British settlers and the Cherokee Indians. The war started when Virginian militia attacked a Cherokee tribe.

The sugar act raised the revenue on sugar products. Great Britain also made sure that the taxes were collected.

When two groups in South and North Carolina tried to create a good justice system. The government made courts and created a fair justice system.

They were most well known for dumping British tea Into the Boston harbor. They were a group of patriots who didn't believe in the way Great Britain was treating them. After the Boston Tea Party the group didn't meet up anymore.

The tea act made the taxes on tea higher than before. The people disliked this act very much and revolted by dumping tea into the Boston harbor.

A war between Great Britain and what is known as America.

Replaced later for being to weak it was a document that said the 13 colonies were a separate country from Great Britain.

The Declaration of Independence was a document made to escape the British control.

It demands positive balance of trade from the Government.

A major victory for the British forces.

A victory by the Patriots against British soldiers.

This battle was the turning point for the patriots in the South.

This was the last major battle fought by the patriots in South Carolina.

A document which stated that a slave was only 3/5 of a person when counting the population.

Allowing the Government to tax imports but not imports.

It made proportional amount of representatives according to the population of the state.

The Supreme law of the United States of America.

Helped make plantation owners get more money because it involved the slaves doing most all the work.

A machine used to separate the seeds from the cotton.

A movement made mostly by people in the North to end slavery.

A system that involved large farms, with 20 or more slaves to produce crops to sell.

Made sure that know ship could go to a port in a different country.

A war that ended as a tie with know side gaining any advantage on the other.

Made Kansas and Nebraska there own different territories. Caused riots to see if their would be slavery.

A Union officer who drove through the South using a strategy called total war. This is where everything is destroyed.

A plot to overthrow slave owners at his old plantation; the attempt was a failure. This led to the slave codes.

This got rid of all the tariffs during Andrew Jackson's presidency.

Laws made by slave owners to prevent slave uprisings in the south.

Drove a Confederate gunboat out through the Union blockade to escape freedom, he later became apart of the Union Army.

Made African Americans government property and they couldn't decide which states where slavery free or not.

This war began when the South left the Union and then attacked fort Sumter starting the war.

When Abraham Lincoln became president the South thought he was going to abolish slavery, so the South created the Confederacy.

Once Abraham won the election of 1860 the South seceded from the Union.

This was the first battle of the civil war. The Confederates won.

Someone who wants to secede or agrees with seceding from a Union or organization.

The Union forces took over the forts located at port royal sound, they kept them for the rest of the war.

A strategy used by William T. Sherman to destroy the South's moral and destroy all most everything in the towns.

When the president of the United States was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, in Fords Theater.