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History Vocab Test
3/20/14
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Trail of Tears | The journey of the Cherokee people from their homeland to Indian Territory between 1838 and 1839; thousands of Cherokees died |
| Three Fifths Compromise | The Constitutional Convention's agreement to count three-fifths of a states slaves as population for purpose of representation and taxation |
| Great Compromise | The Constitutional Convention's agreement to establish a two-house national legislature with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house. |
| Crispus Attucks | One of the colonial's victims of the Boston Massacre shot by a British soldier in 1770 |
| 1620 | The year of the arrival of the Pilgrims to the Massachusetts coast and signing of the Mayflower Compact |
| Platform | -A statement of principles and policies, esp. of a political party -Two main political parties will put forth their own ideas about governing the country |
| 1836 | Year Texas became an independent nation, the Lone Star Republic; Sam Houston was elected president |
| John Wilkes Booth | The confederate supporter that shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president, while he was attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. in 1865 |
| Harriet Tubman | One of the most famous conductors of the Underground Railroad. She made 19 journeys to free enslaved persons |
| Middle Passage | The middle leg of the triangular trade route- the voyage from Africa to the Americas- that brought captured Africans into slavery |
| Samuel F. B. Morse | Invented the telegraph in 1837. The telegraphs translated letters into messages by a series of long and short pulses of electricity along a wire which unified the nation |
| Fugitive Slave Law | An 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | The 1848 treaty ending the U.S. war with Mexico; Mexico ceded nearly one-half of its land to the U.S. |
| 1783 | The year the Treaty of Paris was signed which ended the American Revolution |
| American System | -A plan introduced in 1815 to make the U.S. economically self-sufficient -There were three parts to this plan including to establish a protective tariff, establish a national bank, and improve the country's transportation system |
| Appomattox Court House | The Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War |
| Battles of Saratoga | A series of conflicts between British soldiers and the Continental Army in 1777 that proved to be a turning point in the Revolutionary War |
| Blockade | When armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into or out of an area |
| 1781 | The Battle of Yorktown was fought in the year which was the last battle of the American Revolution |
| Abolition | The movement to end slavery |
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