Midterm Timeline

A war strategy in which an army destroys everything in their path. William T Sherman used this technique.

It was a war between British Colonists and many native American tribes. They killed hundreds of colonists and destroyed many settlements.

The division of the land into smaller units under private ownership became known as the plantation system. Many plantations grew tobacco, rice, etc.

Stono Rebellion was a slave rebellion that commenced on September 7th, 1739 in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising.

Many countries involved and was also known for the Seven Years War. Involving many indian groups.

The war was a conflict between British in North America and Cherokee Indian tribes during the French and Indian War. In November 1761, the Cherokee signed a peace treaty with Virginia.

The Sugar Act was British Parliament repealing sugar goods. They added tax to it, so many people couldn't afford it.

Also known as the War of the Regulation, it was an uprising between the North and South Carolina in which citizens fired at colonial officials.

A group formed by American patriots. The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists.

British Parliament went against printed materials and in order to buy them, they needed to be stamped.. Printed materials considered legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies.

An African American slave that planned the biggest slave revolt.

It was made to stop the huge amount of tea created.

The Revolutionary War was known as the American War of Independence. It gradually started a world war.

It was a document that said that the 13 colonies are independent and no longer apart of British.

It was ratified in 1781. The 13 founding Colonies agreed on a constitution that stated law and ruled, basically.

In South Carolina, fought between Loyalists and Patriots.

It was a victory for the British during the American Revolutionary War.

South Carolina on the border with North Carolina, United States of America. Fought between British and America. Winners were the Americans.

During the American Revolution fought between British and Americans

It was a compromise between northern and southern states in order to decide if slaves should be counted as a vote for taxes or elections.

An agreement during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 protecting slaveholders interests by forbidden Congress to tax.

A document that states the supreme laws of the Untied States.

Many delegates had different views so they tried to make it easier to agree on things.

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in and ball. You can use cotton to make cloths and other materials.

The cotton gin is a machine that quickly seperated cotton from the seeds. It was created by Eli Whitney.

The division of the land into smaller units under private ownership became known as the plantation system.

Us Congress restricting shipping from places and to places. Jefferson thought if they stopped shipping from and to places that they would be cut off from war.

conflict between the United States and the British Empire. British wanted US to restrict shipping and such. The Treaty of Ghent ended the war on February 17, 1815.

William T. Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War

In 1828, Congress passed a high protective tariff that infuriated the southern states because they felt it only benefited the industrialized north.

Wanting to end slavery and any discriminational acts such as slavery. The abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation

Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician.

Territories were created, Kansas and Nebraska and it opened up land and opportunities for people.

US decided thatgovernment had no power to regulate slavery in the territories, and that people of African descent (both slave and free) were not protected by the Constitution and were not U.S. citizens.

Te presidential election between Abraham Lincoln and John Breckinridge. Abraham won.

An act of withdrawing from an organization or party.

American Civil War s the bloodiest conflict in US history. In consists of many battles.

CSA was a government set up for southern slave states.

Fort Sumter is a Third System masonry sea fort located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired

It took place on a Good Friday. Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated. John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln at the Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.