Social-Studies Midterm

Fought between the British Americans and New France. - Seven Years' War

A conflict between the British, the American, Cherokee.

The indigo was needed for its blue dye and the was responsible for slave uprising.

Revenue-raising act passed by the Parlaiment of Great Britian. An act for granting duties in the British colonies.

An uprising that was started by the North and South Carolina. People started an attack on the colonial officials.

A group of shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves The Loyal Nine.They were going against the Stamp Act. As the group got bigger they came to be known as the Sons of Liberty.

It was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. It stated that all American colonist had to pay a tax on all printed paper.

It was passed by the Parliament on March 10, 1773. They were trying to get a lot of the tea that East Indian had. Which rose tax. It ended in December of 1773 because they people threw 342 cheats of tea into the harbour.

It was many battles held between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies and gradually led into a war. They fought because the British was trying to pass more laws to get more control but the Americans didn't like it.

The Declaration of Independence was drafted by Thomas Jefferson on June the 11 through the 28, 1776. It was made to show liberty for every person.

South Carolina got independence for Great Britian four months before the Continental Congress declared independence and five months before South Carolina learned about the declaration.

It was a battle won by the British. The fought as result of the British capture of Charlestown in May of 1780. On April 16, 1780.

It was a battle between the Patriots and the Loyalists. (Patriots were defense). It happened at a campaign for the american Revolutionary War. This took place October 7, 1780 nine malis away from what we call Kings Mountain today, in Royal York town South Carolina.

It was an agreement between the 13 colonies, that sovereign states and was its first constitution.

It was a victory for the Continental army forces. It was a turning point on the reconquest of South Carolina from the British.

It was a battle of the American Revolutionary War. It was the last major battle fought in the Carolinas.

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between the Southern and the Northern states that happened during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. It said that 3/5 of the slave population was to be counted for representation purposes regarding the distribution of taxes and the apportionment for the Members of the House of Representatives.

Northerners wanted to restrict foreign competition so they could get raw goods and finished products by taxing imports and exports.

It was a compromise that joined the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan.

The first three Articles of the Constitution established the rules and separation of the three federal branches; legislature, bicameral congress and an executive branch. The executive branch is run by the President and the judiciary led by the Supreme Court.The last four articles are about federalism.

It was created by Eli Whitney. It pulled out the seeds and tore apart cotton. It was also one of the main reasons why slavery became popular.

It was a policy that meant America had to hold cotton from European markets in the hopes of including either foreign intervention or at the least making recognition of the fledgling Confederacy.

It was land that was split up to private owners. This is known as the plantation system.

It was made in response to violations that happened to the U.S. American merchants and all their cargo was captured by the European navies.

It was a conflict between the United States and the British Empire. The conflict lasted 32 months, it resulted in no territorial change but resolved many issues that were from the American War of Independence.

He was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

The plot was that Vesey and a group of slaves and some free blacks to execute their enslavers and to temporarily liberate Charleston.

It was a national debate over federal versus state authority. The time was coming when issues divide the country along the lines was growing. This nullification made people focus more.

It was an attempt to end racial segregation and discrimination.

He was once a slave but then became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician. He freed himself, his crew and their families by putting them no the ship, the CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor and sailing to freedom beyond the federal blockade.

It created new land between them that could be settles on. It repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery in both territory.

A landmark decision by the U.S Supreme Court. It said that federal government had no right to regulate slavery and that African descents, free or enslaved, were not protected by the Constitution and weren't citizens.

It was the 19th presidential election. It was the immediate outbreak of the American Civil War.

A person who claims secession as a constitutional right.

It was fought between the U.S and the Union and several slave states that had made the Confederacy.

It was a group of slaves that declared their secession from the United States.

It was a city at the mouth of Kingston Harbor.

Abraham Lincoln was the current president of the United States when he was assassinated on Good Friday, April 14, 1865. It happened while he was watching a play when John Booth, a famous actor, shot him.

It engages complete mobilization of fully available resources or population.

It was a famous battle that was part of the American Civil War. It is now a popular visiting sight.