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My A~B~C

My A~B~C. Book♥. Abigail Adams. Bernardo de Galvez. Common sense. Daughters of liberty. Embargo Act.

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My A~B~C

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  1. My A~B~C Book♥

  2. Abigail Adams

  3. Bernardo de Galvez

  4. Common sense

  5. Daughters of liberty

  6. Embargo Act • The Embargo Act of 1807 and the subsequent Nonintercourse Acts were American laws restricting American ships from engaging in foreign trade between the years of 1807 and 1812. They led to the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain.

  7. Federalist • The Federalist party was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816, the era of the First Party System, with remnants lasting into the 1820s. The Federalists controlled the federal government until 1801. The party was formed by Alexander Hamilton.

  8. The Great Awakening • The First Great Awakening began in 1734 and lasted to about 1750. Ministers from various evangelical Protestant denominations supported the Great Awakening.Additionally, pastoral styles began to change. In the late colonial period, most pastors read their sermons, which were theologically dense and advanced a particular theological argument or interpretation.

  9. House of Burgesses • The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America.

  10. Indiana territory • The Indian Territory, also known as the Indian Territories and the Indian Country, was land set aside within the United States for the use of American Indians.

  11. John Paul Jones • John Paul Jones was the United States first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolutionary War.

  12. Kansas-Nebraska act • The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands that would help the settlers settle in them, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries and to settle there.

  13. Lake Erie • Lake Erie was the last of the Great Lakes to be explored by Europeans, since the Iroquois who occupied the Niagara River area were in conflict with the French, and they did not allow explorers or traders to pass through.

  14. Magna Carta • Magna Carta was the first document forced onto an English King by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges. It was preceded and directly influenced by the Charter of Liberties in 1100, in which King Henry I had specified particular areas wherein his powers would be limited.

  15. Northwest ordinance • The Northwest Ordinance was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States, passed July 13, 1787. The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River.

  16. Ohio river valley • The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River.

  17. Plymouth Settlement • Plymouth Colony (sometimes New Plymouth, or Plymouth Bay Colony) was an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 to 1691.

  18. Quakers • The Quakers were radical Christians. They believed that all people were equal in the sight of God, and every human being wascapable of receiving the "light" of God’s spirit and wisdom. They also were against violence.

  19. Republican Party • The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party.

  20. Santa Anna • Santa Anna was a Mexican political leader, general, and president who greatly influenced early Mexican and Spanish politics and government.

  21. Triangular trail route • Triangular trade, or triangle trade, is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions.

  22. Underground Rail Road • The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

  23. Virginia plan • The Virginia Plan (also known as the Randolph Plan, after its sponsor, or the Large-State Plan) was a proposal by Virginia delegates, drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787

  24. War hawks • is a word originally used to describe members of the Twelfth Congressof the United States who advocated waging war against the British in the War of 1812.

  25. XYZ affair • The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic event that strained relations between France and the United States, and led to an undeclared naval war called the Quasi-War. It took place from March of 1798 to 1800.

  26. Battle of Yorktown • The Battle of Yorktown or Siege of Yorktown was fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaignof the American Civil War.

  27. John Peter Zenger • John Peter Zenger (October 26, 1697 – July 28, 1746) was a German-American printer, publisher, editor, and journalist in New York City. He was a defendant in a landmark legal case in American jurisprudence that determined that truth was a defense against charges of libel and "laid the foundation for American press freedom.

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