8TH grade
| Description: | 1-21 facts |
| Category: | U.S. History |
| Created by: | Carmen Cruz on 2008-01-07 |
| Stack ID: | 112045 |
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| Jamestown | the first permanent English settlement, was founded in 1607. |
| Declaration of Independence | was signed on July 4, 1776. |
| Constitution | of the United States was written in 1787. |
| 4. President Thomas Jefferson | purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803. |
| Civil War | was fought from 1861-1865. |
| Lexington, Massachusetts | 6. The first shots of the American Revolution were fired in April 1775 |
| 7. Concord, Massachusetts | was the site of the first battle of the American Revolution. |
| Battle of Saratoga | was the turning point of the American Revolution |
| Yorktown, Virginia | The British defeat at___ by George Washington’s troops signaled the end of the American Revolution. |
| Fort Sumter | 10. The first shots of the Civil War were fired at ___in South Carolina. |
| 11. The Battle of Gettysburg | was the turning point in the Civil War for the North. Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again. |
| Vicksburg, Mississippi | The capture of ___by the North in 1863, effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union. |
| 13. Appomattox Court House | is the small town in Virginia where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War. |
| Mercantilism | is an economic theory that a country’s strength is measured by the amount of gold it has, that a country should sell more than it buys and that the colonies exist for the benefit of the Mother Country. |
| abolitionist | was a person who wanted to end slavery in the United States |
| tariff | is a tax on goods brought into a country |
| protective tariff | is a tax placed on goods from another country to protect the home industry. |
| Sectionalism | is a strong sense of loyalty to a state or section instead of to the whole country. |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief that the United States should own all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. |
| Temperance Movement | was a campaign against the sale or drinking of alcohol. |
| Representative Government | is a system of government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them. |
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emancipation- the freeing of slaves Emancipation Proclaimation- Lincoln's speech, written to free Conferderate slaves contrabands- escaped slaves 54th Massachusetts Infantry- consisted mostly of free African Americans, and in July 1863 this regiment led a heroic charge on South Carolina's Fort Wagner Copperheads- midwesterners that sympathized with the South and opposed abolition Habeas corpus- a constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment Clara Barton- volunteer nurse during the Civil War who later founded the American Red Cross Battle of Gettysburg- a key battle that finally turned the tide against the Confederates Pickett's Charge- nearly 15000 men took part in this attempt by George Pickett to attack the Union position on Cemetary Ridge, in it Pickett lost over half his men George Pickett- general who commanded the largest Confederate unit at the Battle of Gettysburg Gettysburg Address- Lincoln's speech in which he praised the braver of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War Wilderness Campaign- a series of battles designed by the union to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia William Tecumseh Sherman- provided a key victory for Lincoln, carrying out a Union plan to destroy southern railroads and industries, and helped Lincoln to get reelected total war- destroying civilian and economic resources Appomattox Courthouse- small town where Lee surrendered to Grant, thus ending the Civil War
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