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| Articles of Confederation |
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| 1st governing law in the US; first constitution of the 13 American states, adopted in 1781 and replaced in 1789 by the Constitution of the United States |
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| Summary o those rights considered essential to a group of people |
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| a settlement of differences in which each side makes concessions |
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| a town east of Mass. on the Concord River. Site of the early Revolutionary War. |
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| military expeditions of European Christians in the 11 & 13th centuries to recover the holy land from Muslims |
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| to free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate |
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| branch of government charged with execution of country's laws and the administration of its functions |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5th,1774 at Carpenter's Hall in Philidelphia,Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution. |
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| American politician who was 1st U.S secretary of treasury. Supported manufacturing over farming. |
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| series of laws passed by the British in 1774 in an attempt to punish British Colonies for the Boston Tea party. Also called the Coercive Acts. |
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| English philosopher whose "Concerning Human Understanding" set out principles of empiricism. He believed in natural rights and had ideas that lead to democracy. |
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| American jurist; 3rd chief of surpreme court. Help establish practice of judicial review. |
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| branch of government charged with the interpretation of laws and the administration of justice. |
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| the branch of government empowered to make the laws |
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| The battle of Lexington (April 19,1775) marked the beginning of the American Revolution. |
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| The English Charter political and civil liberties granted by King John at Runnymede in June 1215. |
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| the surpreme court's landmark decision establishing the principle of judicial review which the court decifes on the constitutionality of the law. |
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| French political philosopher. Believed in seperation of powers by three branch government. |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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| started May 5th, 1775. A convention of delegates from 13 colonies came together and decided to form the United States with a commander in chief George Washington. |
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| the principle system of vesting in seperate branches the executive, legistlative, and jusicial powers |
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| a creek on N-central MD emptying into the Potomac River; site of a major Civil War Battle. |
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| a small stream of NE Virginia SW of Washington DC near Manasass; site of two important Civil War Battles |
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| Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysees S. Grant on April 9th, 1865, ending the Civil War |
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| the war in the Unitsed States between the Union and the Confederacy from 1861-1865 |
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| the confederate states of America. A group united for unlawul practices ; a conspiracy. |
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| (1808-1889) American soldier and president of the Confederacy; indicted for treason but never prosecuted. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| to free from bondage, oppresion, or restaint; liberate. |
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| an independent city of NE Virgina of Richmond, sute if the Battle of Fredericksburg (Dec. 1862). |
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| a speech by U.S president Abraham Lincoln and is the most well-known speeches in United States History |
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| the 18th president of the U.S and a Civil war general. Maade commander and chief of the Union Army. |
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| American Confederate general who commanded troops at Bull Run and directed the Shenandoah Valley Campaign. |
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| American Confederate general in the ciil war who won victories at Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville, before surrendering to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox. |
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| 16th president of the U.s , who led the Union furing the Civil War and emancipated slaves in the south; assassinated shortly after the end of the war by John Wilkes Booth. |
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| First capital of the Confederacy |
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| territories and states could decide whether they would allow slavery |
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| the period when the federal government controlled the states that had seceded to the Confederacy before readmitting them into the Union. |
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| Sherman, William Tecumseh |
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| a general in the Union army during the American Civil War. Was a soldier, businessman,educator and writer. |
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| the state of one bound in servitufe as the property of a slavehold or a household |
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| the land force that fought for the Union during the Civil War |
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| city of the major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the Civil War. |
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| eased the tensions over slavery |
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| Writer who romanticized Native Americans and fronteir explorers. The most famous being The Last of the Mohicans |
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| female poet who wrote simple, personal, deeply emotional poetry |
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| most influential transcendentalist. Wrote 1836 essay Nature. Believed in communion with the natural world |
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| helped Southerners recover enslaved African Americans who had fled north. |
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| a case that resulted in Federal control over interstate commerce |
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| A New England customs official, wrote over 100 tales and novels. "The Scarlet Letter" being the most popular. |
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| American Writer best remembered for his stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
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| May 1854, leaders of the Democrats in Congress support this. The act stopped/limited the spread of slavery |
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| a poet and short story writer. Famous for terror and mystery |
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| one of the two primary political parties in the U.S organized in 1854 to oppose the extension of slavery |
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| an enslaved man whose Missouri slaveholder had taken him to live in free territory before returning to Missouri. |
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| practice of handing our government jobs to supporters; replacing government employers with the winning canidate's supporters |
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| part of the Transcendentalist movement that started as a reform movement within the Unitarian Church |
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| a river in Indiana where they tried to practice traditional Native American ways of living |
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| highest federal court in the United States |
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| American legislator and public official noted for his oratery |
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| poet known esp. for his collection "Leaves of Grass" |
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| series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815 |
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