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ABC BOOKBy: Santos Ontiveros
aABRHAM LINCOLN: PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
DURING THE CIVIL WAR.
BATTLE OF ANTIETAM: SINGLE BLOODIEST BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR.
BJOHN Brown: MILITANT ABOLIONIST WHO LED RAID AT
HARPERS FERRY.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: AUTHOR, PUBLISHER, INVENTOR AND DIPLOMAT.
CCrispus Attucks: American hero and martyr of the Boston
massacre.
Articles of confederation: created just before the battle of Yorktown, this was the first attempt at a national government by the american colonies; its weakness was the lack of a strong central government.
dDouglass, Frederick: slave, but had escaped slavery and
became a leading abolitionist.
Davis, Jefferson: president of the confederate states of America.
eemancipation proclamation: freed all of the slaves in the
southern states.Eli Whitney: invented the cotton gin and interchangeable
parts.
FFugitive slave act: act that helped slave owners recover
their runaway slaves from the north.Federalist party: believe in strong central government,
higher tariffs, government support of industry.
G Great compromise: it called for a bi-cameral congress with
population based representation in the house, and two representatives per state in the senate.
George mason: writings influenced new government. He believed in the need restrict government power and refused to ratify the constitution till the bill of rights were added.
hHaym Salomon: polish Jew who spied for Americans and was
held as a translator for the Germans by the British.Hamilton, Alexander: author of many of many federalist
papers, first secretary of treasury, leader of the federalist party.
iindividual rights: the first 10 amendments of
the constitution protect individual rights power of the government.
Industrialism: inventions changed the way goods were produced.
jJacksonian democracy: the idea that as many
people as possible should be allowed to vote. john Quincy Adams: 6th president, member of
congress & and favored strong nationalism against states rights and opposed the pro-slavery messages of john c. Calhoun.
kKing George iii: king of England during the
American revolution.Kansas-nebraska act: all were examples of the
government compromise that actually spread slavery further in the country.
l labor reform movement: social movement where workers
began protesting and strikes to get better wages and working hours.
The liberator: an abolitionist newspaper-william Lloyd garrison.
mMann, Horace: father of the public education, believed all
children had the right to free education.Morril act: land grant that established agricultural
universities.
nNullification compromise: Henry clays compromise to the
end of nullification crisis when the tariff would be lowered over a 10 year period.
Northwest ordinance: established government for the northwest territory and described how a territory became a state.
oOverride: to overturn or defeat, as a bill proposed in
congress.Ordinance: a law or regulation.
pPlantations: large farms that usually grow one kind of cash
crop.Popular sovereignty: political power rests with the people
exercised through voting.
qQuaker: protestant group of dissenters called the security of
friends.Quartering act: protection from quartering troops.
rRepublicanism: government in which the desires of people
are represented in government by elected representatives.Ralph waldo Emerson: writer & poet, popularized the idea of
transcendentalism.
sSamuel Morse: inventor of the telegraph.Suffrage: the right to vote.
tTreaty of Paris: ended the French and Indian war.Thomas Paine: wrote “common sense” and “American
crisis”.
uUrbanization: social process where cities grow and societies
become more urban.Unalienable rights: rights that cannot be taken away by a
government.
vVirginia plan: each state would have a different number of
representatives based on states population.Virtue: the quality of doing what its right and avoiding what
is right.
wWilliam Carney: 1st African American awarded medal of
honor.William, dawes: leading member of the sons of liberty.
xXyz affair: three French agents.
yYorktown: the last major battle of the revolutionary war.
zZenger peter, john: journalist, freedom of press.