Midterm

The sons of liberty were a group of patriots that fought for independence.

It was a slave rebellion. It was the fastest uprising slave rebellion.

North American war between France & Great Britain. The war ended with the treaty of pairs.

Cherokee war was the conflict between the British and Cherokee tribes

Plantations dominated southern agriculture. This lasted till the beginning of the Civil War.

The British Parliment raised taxes on sugar. it made most colonies who grew sugar go out of business.

The stamp act was the act of taxing things such as legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of papers.

They made a court system. To bring justice and get criminals of the streets.

Act that gave Americans no right to buy tea unless it came for a specific company.

The revolutionary war was a war fought for american independence against the British

South Carolina Constitution of 1776 was you need to have a significant amount of property to vote, and even more to be a politician.

The declaration of independence was a document that allowed us to be free from Great Britain.

The Articles of Confederation was a document that basically was a document that supported a much stronger national government but gave less power to the people and then eventually got ratified.

The battle of Camden was a very important battle because it was a very big victory for the British.

The battle of kings mountain was won by the patriots because they heard that the British were coming so they managed to push them of the hill and go back to their camps.

The battle of Cowpens was a very big victory for the patriots against the British with 1,000 people dead on their side.

Battle of Eutaw Springs was a very important battle because it was mostly the turning point of the war in the Carolinas.

The 3/5 Compromise only counted slaves as 3/5 a person in order.

Commerce Compromise is when the Constitution allows the federal government to tax imports but not exports.

The constitution of the united states of america pretty much states all of the laws and created what our government is today.

The great compromise was a compromise that proposed having a bicameral legislature which became the House of Representatives and the Senate.

The cotton gin was created by Eli Whitney which it made picking the seeds off cotton much much easier.

The slaves and owners would take the picked cotton to the market. The could trade it for many other supllies, and money.

The Embargo act was that you were not allowed to ship cargo out of country which definitely brought down the income of money.

The war of 1812 was a war fought between the British and the Americans. America declared war on Great Britain because of Britain’s harassment of their shipping and they wanted to control territory in Canada.

The Denmark Vesey plot was an idea to start a slave uprising lead by Denmark Vesey after he became a free man. But the plot leaked out to authority’s and he was arrested.

A tariff created to help increase the price of cloth. Making newly cotton prices lower, and the south losing money and the north gaining money.

The Abolitionist Movement was basically the movemne of ending slavery.

Abraham Lincoln was elected. Southern states angered, because they might lose their slaves or their rights over their slaves.

Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Purpose was to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1850 and let the settlers choose whether they would like slavery or not.

It was illegal for the federal government decide whether slavery was legal or not in some states. It was also to address that African Americans could not be citizens

The war was fought between the North and South and they had seceded. Bloodiest war. North won, south regoined nation and slavery was abolished.

Southern states seceded from the Union. Didn’t like Lincoln, or his decisions about slavery. Eventually came back as one nation again.

The battle that started the American Civil War. A big station of the war, and is still visited today.

A battle fought from water to land. North won – Port Royal captured.

People who agreed with the secession of the south and north.

A general in the Civil War. Took on “total war” against the Confederate States.

A slave who freed himself, his family, his friends and their families. As a ship captain, he took a confederate ship and sailed across the confederate blockade into freedom.

A war tactic created by William T. Sherman. To tell the confederate states how long the war would last, to bore them and make them lose interest to shorten the war.

Happened 5 days after the south had surrendered to the north. Lincoln was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth, a southerner in a theater during a play.