Webquest Words!!!

1. The Articles of Confederation was the 1st constitution of USA and legally established the Union of the states.
2. Daniel Shay led a rebellion against taxes and debts which was known as Shay’s Rebellion.
3. The Great Compromise was an agreement made between large and small states that would show representation in the Constitution.
4. Federalism is the system to organize units of the government.
5. The three-fifths compromise was an agreement between Southern and Northern states about the slave population.
6. The Whiskey Rebellion was famous in 1791 when the government taxed whiskey, so that people could pay off their debt.
7. Little Turtle was an Indian chief and he advocate for peace with the United States.
8. The Alien and Sedition acts were bills that was passed by the Federalist which was to undeclared naval war with France.
9. The Northwest Ordinance was an act of the Congress of Confederation and the primary effect was to create the Northwest territory as the 1st organized territory.
10. Louisiana Purchase was territory of the French until the United States bought it, so it became part of one of the states in the US.
11. The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy which introduced European countries to colonize land in America.
12. Impressments was the act to force men to become apart of the Navy without notice or warning.
13. The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of United States and before it became a song it was poem by Francis Scott Key.
14. The Erie Canal is the waterway passage in New York that was used and a transportation system between the eastern seaboard and western interior of the US.
15. Samuel Slater was an early American industrialist and he constructed the textile industry.
16. Eli Whitney was an inventor that created the Cotton gin to make it easier to pick cotton.
17. Horace Mann was the genius, who came up with Massachusetts State Board of Education and was elected for the US House of Representatives.
18. The Temperance movement was known as the social movement against the use of alcoholic beverages.
19. Seneca Falls Convention was the influential women’s right center, where women could show themselves and gain civil rights in society.
20. The Indian Removal Act was a policy signed by President Andrew Jackson saying to remove the Indians and support the South.
21. The Alamo was a battle during the Texas Revolution and where Mexican troops assaulted the Alamo.
22. Frederick Douglass was a slave, who yearned for is freedom and received it. He became an abolitionist and brought the attention of slavery to America.
23. William Lloyd Garrison was an American abolitionist, who had is on racial abolitionist newspaper which he named “ The Liberator”.
24. In 1820 there was an agreement between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions involving the regulation of slavery called the Missouri Compromise.
25. The Nullification crisis was created by South Carolina’s Ordinance of Nullification that stated that Tariff of 1828 was unconstitutional.
26. The Wilmot Proviso was an event that lead to the Civil War and would ban slavery to acquire the Mexico.
27. The Compromise of 1850 were four bills that was passed on September 4th, to stop the confrontation between slave states in the South and free states of the North.
28. The Underground Rail road was a system for slaves to escape to freedom and find shelter in the abolitionist in the North.
29. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American woman, who was an abolitionist and wrote a book called “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin” describing the life of an African American under the power of slavery.
30. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was to create territories in Kansas and Nebraska to have new and open land.
31. John Brown was another American abolitionist, who led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas.
32. Nat Turner was a slave and was tired of slavery and led a slave rebellion which happen in Virginia on August 12th , 1831.
33. Dred Scott was a slave longing for his freedom and went to court for it but the Court denied his freedom for he was a slave and they had no right to be free.
34. Jefferson Davis was military officer and during the Civil War, he served as president of the Confederate States of America.
35. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer and commanded the Army of North Virginia in the Civil War.
36. The Anaconda Plan was formed by Winfield Scott and wanted to blockade the ports in the South to advance down the Mississippi River.
37. The Border states which were Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia, were slave states that border the free slave states.
38. Stonewall Jackson was a Confederate general during the Civil War and was commander in the Army of North Virginia with Robert E. Lee.
39. George McClellan was a general during the Civil War and created the Army of Potomac and served in the Union Army briefly.
40. Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the USA and was also chief of the Union Army.
41. The Battle of Antietam was first major battle in the Civil War which took place in Northern soil.
42. The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point in the Civil War and it held in Gettysburg, PA.
43. The Siege of Vicksburg was the final action during the Civil war, where Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of Tennessee and seized Vicksburg.
44. Emancipation Proclamation was made by President Lincoln to declare the freedom to slaves of all states.
45. Conscription was used on occasions when volunteers or paid substitutes insufficient to raise manpower.
46. Total War was where they destroyed every resource the rival’s capacity to continue to resistance.
47. William Sherman was an American Soldier, who led his troops to the City of Atlanta and burned it to the ground!
48. John Wilkes Booth was an actor and was the assassin of the 16th President, Lincoln and killed at Ford Theatre.