Birth of a Nation Webquest Unit 2

Birth of a Nation Webquest Words

1) Articles of Confederation
a) The Articles of Confederation provided a loose federal government before the present Constitution went into effect in 1789.
2) Shay’s Rebellion
a) Shay’s Rebellion was named after Daniel Shay.
3) Great Compromise
a) The Great Compromise was a combination of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan.
4) federalism
a) Our government is based on federalism.
5) Three-Fifth’s Compromise
a) The three-fifths compromise is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution
6) Whiskey Rebellion
a) The government decided to tax whiskey in order to pay off the national debt, and this infuriated the citizens and led to the Whiskey Rebellion.
7) Little Turtle
a) The exact year and place of Little Turtle’s birth are uncertain.
8) Alien and Sedition Acts
a) The Alien and Sedition Acts were signed into law by President John Adams.
9) Northwest Ordnance of 1787
a) The North Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery in the region.
10) Louisiana Purchase
a) At the time, the Louisiana Purchase faced domestic opposition as being possibly unconstitutional.
11) Monroe Doctrine
a) The Monroe Doctrine asserted that the Western Hemisphere was not to be further colonized by European countries,
12) Impressments
a) Impressment was strongly criticized by those who believed it to be contrary to the British constitution
13) Star Spangled Banner
a) "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America.
14) Eerie Canal
a) The Eerie Canal was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard and the western interior of the United States that did not require portage
15) Samuel Slater
a) Samuel Slater was known as the Father of the American Industrial Revolution
16) Eli Whitney
a) Eli Whitney's invention made short staple cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery.
17) Horace Mann
a) Horace Mann served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1834-1837.
18) Temperance Movement
a) Temperance movements may criticize excessive alcohol use, promote complete abstinence, or pressure the government to enact anti-alcohol legislation.
19) Seneca Falls Convention
a) The Seneca Falls Convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York.
20) Indian Removal Act
a) The Removal Act was strongly supported in the South, where states were eager to gain access to lands inhabited by the "Five Civilized Tribes".
21) Alamo
a) Mexican troops under the president of Mexico General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo
22) Frederick Douglas
a) Frederick Douglass believed that education was key for African Americans to improve their lives
23) William Lloyd Garrison
a) William Lloyd Garrison is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator.
24) Missouri Compromise
a) In the Dred Scott v. Sandford case in 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress did not have authority to prohibit slavery in territories, and that those provisions of the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional.
25) Nullification Crisis
a) The Nullification Crisis was created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification.
26) Wilmot Proviso
a) The Wilmot Proviso would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future.
27) Compromise of 1850
a) The Compromise of 1850 became possible after the sudden death of President Zachary Taylor.
28) Underground Railroad
a) Many slave escaped through the Underground Railroad.
29) Harriet Beecher Stowe
a) Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
30) Kansas-Nebraska Act
a) Douglas hoped the Kansas-Nebraska Act would ease relations between the North and the South, because the South could expand slavery to new territories but the North still had the right to abolish slavery in their states.
31) John Brown
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32) Nat Turner
a) Turner was hanged on November 11 in Courtland, Virginia,
33) Dred Scott
a) Dred Scott sued his owner and lost.
34) Jefferson Davis
a) Jefferson Davis resigned from the Senate in January 1861 after receiving word that Mississippi had seceded from the Union.
35) Robert E Lee
a) In early July 1863, Lee was decisively defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
36) Anaconda Plan
a) The Anaconda Plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports.
37) border state
a) All borders states but Delaware share borders with states that joined the Confederacy.
38) Stonewall Jackson
a) Military historians consider Stonewall Jackson to be one of the most gifted tactical commanders in US history.
39) George McClellan
a) Early in the war, McClellan played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army for the Union.
40) Ulysses S Grant
a) Ulysses S. Grant served as the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
41) Antietam
a) Antietam was the bloodiest battle of the war.
42) Gettysburg
a) The Battle of Gettysburg was the war's turning point.
43) Vicksburg
a) Vicksburg was the final battle of the Civil War.
44) Emancipation Proclamation
a) The proclamation did not name the slave-holding border states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, or Delaware, which had never declared a secession, and so it did not free any slaves there.
45) Conscription
a) Many nations do not maintain conscription forces, instead relying on a volunteer or professional military most of the time, although many of these countries still reserve the possibility of conscription for wartime and during times of crises.
46) total war
a) During the American Civil War, U.S. Army General Phillip Sheridan's stripping of the Shenandoah Valley, beginning on September 21, 1864 and continuing for two weeks, was considered total war.
47) William Sherman
a) William Sherman burned everything in his path
48) John Wilkes Booth
a) John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln.