22331999 | 1607 | First permanent English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia | |
22332000 | 1776 | Declaration of Independence, July 4 | |
22332001 | 1787 | First Constitutional Congress drafted the first Constitution | |
22332002 | 1803 | Louisiana Purchase | |
22333517 | Eli Whitney | Inventor of the Cotton Gin and Interchangable parts | |
22333518 | Reasons for coming to America (from Great Britian) | Religious freedom, economic gain, European rivalries | |
22333519 | No taxation without representation | The arguement the colonies used against Parliament for the trade taxes it imposed | |
22338716 | Mercantilism | A country could maintain its wealth by controling the trade of the colonies | |
22338717 | Battle of Saratoga | Strong American victory that encouraged France to join to war against the British | |
22338718 | Battles of Lexington and Concord | The first battles in the Revolutionary War | |
22338719 | Yorktown, 1781 | The last battle of the Revolutionary War | |
22338720 | Treaty of Paris | Great Britian's surrender to America | |
22338721 | Boston Massacre | British soldiers fired upon a group of colonists. | |
22338722 | Northwest Ordinance | Procedures set up for organizing new states from land northwest of the Ohio River | |
22338723 | Branches of Government | Executive, Legislative, Judicial | |
22352652 | Great Compromise | Specified that congress would be made up of two bodies; Senate and House of representatives | |
22352653 | Three Fifths Compromise | Specified that three fifths of the states slaves would be counted a part of the population | |
22352654 | Manifest Destiny | Mission of the United States to expand across the entire North American continent | |
22352655 | Trail of Tears | Forced re-location of Native Americans | |
22352656 | Missouri Compromise | Set up to maintain a balance between slave states and free states | |
22352657 | Compromise of 1850 | Set up the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law | |
22352658 | Fugitive Slave Law | Required the capture and return of runaway slaves, even in the North | |
22352659 | Dredd Scott Decision | Determined that slaves were property and could not become free by moving to a free state or territory | |
22352660 | John Brown's Raid | The attemp to start a slave rebellion in Virginia | |
22352661 | 1860 | Abraham Lincoln was elected president | |
22352662 | Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States during the Civil War | |
22352663 | Ulysses S. Grant | Union army's general | |
22352664 | Robert E. Lee | Confederate army's general | |
22352665 | Emancipation Proclamation | Abolishment of slavery | |
22352666 | Compass rose | Tells you which way is north, south, east and west | |
22352667 | Map's key or legend | Explains the different symbols used on a map | |
22352668 | Free Enterprise | Individuals being allowed to participate in business with little government interference | |
22352669 | Transportation Revolution | The era when railroads, steamships, roads, and canals | |
22352670 | Industrialization | The widespread use of machines to produce goods | |
22352671 | Urbanization | People began moving from rural farm areas to the urban city areas | |
22352672 | Plantations | Large farms that depended on slave labor | |
22352673 | Cotton gin | A machine that removed the seeds from cotton | |
22352674 | Textile factories | Factories that used machines to produce large quantities of goods such as fabric | |
22352675 | Interchangeable parts | Parts that could be substitued for one another in the manufacturing process | |
22352676 | Steamboats | Boats powered by steam that increased the speed of river travel | |
22352677 | Trains | Steam locomotives that increased the speed of travel over land | |
22352678 | Telegraph | Early form of electronic communication that allowed rapid communication over long distances | |
22352679 | Samuel Morse | Builder of the first telegraph | |
22352680 | Tariff | A tax or a fee charged on imports | |
22352681 | Protective tariffs | A tax designed to protect a country's industries from foreign competition | |
22352682 | Abolitionist movement | Called for the elimination of slavery | |
22352683 | Temperance movement | Urged Amercians to stop drinking alcohol | |
22352684 | Public education movement | Pressed for government funded schools to be available to all students | |
22352685 | Women's rights movement | Expanded rights of women | |
22352686 | Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Organized the first women's right convention in the United States | |
22352687 | Representative Government | People choose individuals to make and enforce laws on their behalf | |
22352688 | Mayflower Compact | Created a government for the new colony of Massachusetts that would rule according to the wishes of the majority | |
22352689 | Thomas Paine | Author of Common Sense | |
22352690 | Unalienable Rights | Life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness | |
22352691 | Legislative Branch | Congress - makes laws | |
22352692 | Executive Branch | President - enforce laws | |
22352693 | Judicial Branch | Supreme Court and lower federal courts - Interprets laws | |
22352694 | Checks and Balances | Keeps any one branch of the government from becoming too powerful | |
22352695 | Bill of Rights | The first ten amendments to the Constitution | |
22352696 | Jury | A group of citizens that decides the verdict of a court trial. | |
22352697 | Reconstruction Amendments | 13th-abolish slavery, 14th all born in US are citizens and guarateed equal protectionm, 15th right to vote for all citizens | |
22352698 | Bias | Prejudices, stereotypes, or distortion of fact |
TAKS Review 8th U.S.History
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