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ABC BOOK

ABC BOOK. By: Santos Ontiveros. a. ABRHAM LINCOLN: PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE CIVIL WAR. BATTLE OF ANTIETAM : SINGLE BLOODIEST BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR. B. JOHN Brown : MILITANT ABOLIONIST WHO LED RAID AT HARPERS FERRY.

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ABC BOOK

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  1. ABC BOOK By: Santos Ontiveros

  2. a • ABRHAM LINCOLN: PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE CIVIL WAR. • BATTLE OF ANTIETAM: SINGLE BLOODIEST BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR.

  3. B JOHN Brown: MILITANT ABOLIONIST WHO LED RAID AT HARPERS FERRY. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: AUTHOR, PUBLISHER, INVENTOR AND DIPLOMAT.

  4. C • Crispus Attucks: American hero and martyr of the Boston massacre. • Articles of confederation: created just before the battle of Yorktown, this was the first attempt at a national government by the american colonies; its weakness was the lack of a strong central government.

  5. d • Douglass, Frederick: slave, but had escaped slavery and became a leading abolitionist. • Davis, Jefferson:president of the confederate states of America.

  6. e • emancipation proclamation: freed all of the slaves in the southern states. • Eli Whitney: invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.

  7. F • Fugitive slave act: act that helped slave owners recover their runaway slaves from the north. • Federalist party: believe in strong central government, higher tariffs, government support of industry.

  8. G • Great compromise: it called for a bi-cameral congress with population based representation in the house, and two representatives per state in the senate. • George mason: writings influenced new government. He believed in the need restrict government power and refused to ratify the constitution till the bill of rights were added.

  9. h • Haym Salomon: polish Jew who spied for Americans and was held as a translator for the Germans by the British. • Hamilton, Alexander: author of many of many federalist papers, first secretary of treasury, leader of the federalist party.

  10. i • individual rights: the first 10 amendments of the constitution protect individual rights power of the government. • Industrialism: inventions changed the way goods were produced.

  11. j • Jacksonian democracy: the idea that as many people as possible should be allowed to vote. • john Quincy Adams: 6th president, member of congress & and favored strong nationalism against states rights and opposed the pro-slavery messages of john c. Calhoun.

  12. k • King George iii: king of England during the American revolution. • Kansas-nebraska act: all were examples of the government compromise that actually spread slavery further in the country.

  13. l • labor reform movement: social movement where workers began protesting and strikes to get better wages and working hours. • The liberator: an abolitionist newspaper-william Lloyd garrison.

  14. m • Mann, Horace: father of the public education, believed all children had the right to free education. • Morril act: land grant that established agricultural universities.

  15. n • Nullification compromise: Henry clays compromise to the end of nullification crisis when the tariff would be lowered over a 10 year period. • Northwest ordinance: established government for the northwest territory and described how a territory became a state.

  16. o • Override: to overturn or defeat, as a bill proposed in congress. • Ordinance: a law or regulation.

  17. p • Plantations: large farms that usually grow one kind of cash crop. • Popular sovereignty: political power rests with the people exercised through voting.

  18. q • Quaker: protestant group of dissenters called the security of friends. • Quartering act: protection from quartering troops.

  19. r • Republicanism: government in which the desires of people are represented in government by elected representatives. • Ralph waldo Emerson: writer & poet, popularized the idea of transcendentalism.

  20. s • Samuel Morse: inventor of the telegraph. • Suffrage: the right to vote.

  21. t • Treaty of Paris: ended the French and Indian war. • Thomas Paine: wrote “common sense” and “American crisis”.

  22. u • Urbanization: social process where cities grow and societies become more urban. • Unalienable rights: rights that cannot be taken away by a government.

  23. v • Virginia plan: each state would have a different number of representatives based on states population. • Virtue: the quality of doing what its right and avoiding what is right.

  24. w • William Carney: 1st African American awarded medal of honor. • William, dawes: leading member of the sons of liberty.

  25. x • Xyz affair: three French agents.

  26. y • Yorktown: the last major battle of the revolutionary war.

  27. z • Zenger peter, john: journalist, freedom of press.

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