United States History to 1865
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- 1492
- Christopher Columbus discovered American continents. (Italian Explorer)
- 1776
- American colonies declared independence from England
- 1861-1865
- Civil War
- Abolition
- movement to end slavery. (leading to the Civil War)
- Well known abolitionist
- Fredrick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman
- John Adams
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Founding fathers, helped draft Declaration of Independence.
First VP, Second President - Alamo
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San Antonio, TX
1800s TX belonged to Mexico, Americans held off Mexican army until Americans including Davy Crocket were killed - Algonquins
- American Indian people living in eastern Canada. Allies of French government in a war against England (Colonial times)
- Apaches
- American Indian people in southwest United States. Many fought the U.S. army in the late 1800s instead of moving on the reservations.
- Johnny Appleseed
- nickname of an American pioneer and folk hero of the early 1800s. Traveled through frontier America planting apple trees and starting orchards. (John Chapman)
- Appomattox Court House
- Central Virginia. Where Civil War came to an end in 1865 when Southern general Robert E Lee surrendered to the Northern general Ulysses S. Grant
- Arapahos
- American Indian people in western Great Plains. Former buffalo hunters who followed traditional Plains Indian way of life
- Benedict Arnold
- American general of the Revolutionary War and a famous traitor. 1780 was given command of an American fort which he planned to give to the Brittish. He escaped and lived in exile in England and Canada
- Articles of Confederation
- When 13 colonies declared their independence from England, the Articles formed the basis of the national gov. It was soon replaced with the Constitution.
- Crispus Attucks
- black sailor and one of five colonists who were killed by the British in the Boston Massacre
- Benjamin Banneker
- black mathematician and scientist of the late 18th-19th centuries. He was sited by the abolitionist as being proof of the intellectual equality of blacks
- Bill of Rights
- 1st 10 ammendments to the Constitution. these offered more protection for individual rights.
- Blackfeet
- American Indian people of the northern Great Plains. former buffalo hunters who followed the traditional Plains Indian way of life
- Daniel Boone
- pioneer of the late 1700s and early 1800s who explored and settled Kentucky
- John Wilkes Booth
- assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. He was a well known actor who supported Slavery and the Confederacy
- Boston Massacre
- occurred in 1770. British troops fired into a crowd killing five people including Crispus Attucks. The killings increased the tensions between the British and the colonists leading up to the Revolutionary War
- Boston Tea Party
- led to the Revolutionary War. A group of Americans who wanted to protest English taxes and other laws boarded three British ships in Boston Harbor and dumped more than three hundred chests of tea overboard.
- Battle of Bunker Hill
- one of the first battles of the Revolutionary War. American soldiers defended a hill near Boston against two British attacks. British took the hill on the third attack. It proved that the Americans could fight effectively against the British.
- Cherokees
- American Indian people southeast U.S. 1830s American gov. forced them to move west to Oklahoma. The route is now called the Trail of Tears.
- Cheyennes
- American Indian people of the western and northern Great Plains. fought alonside the Sioux in the Battle of the Little Bighorn
- Civil War
- between North(Union) and South(Confederate)from 1861 to 1865. Main issue dividing them was slavery. South seceded from the U.S. and formed a new nation called the Confederacy. After 4 years, the South surrendered at Appomattox Court House
- Confederacy
- Seceded in 1860 and 1861 to form a new nation. SC was the first to secede, then MS,FL, AL,GO,LA,TX,VI,AK,NC,TN
- Constitution
- Established the national government of the U.S. Written and adopted after the Rev. War
- Constitutional Convention
- 1787 gathering of delegates from 12 of the 13 original states. In Philadelphia and resulted in the drafting of the Const. of the U.S.
- Continental Army
- military force led by George Washington that defeted the British in the Rev War