Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Test #7
Review
22
History
3rd Grade
07/19/2011

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Eli Whitney
Definition
invented the cotton gin
Term
territory
Definition
an area of land that belongs to a country
Term
Missouri Compromise
Definition
Henry Clay came up with this compromise. It said that Missouri would be a slave state. The next state, Maine, would be free.
Term
Roger Sherman
Definition
came up with a compromise that said slavery could go on for 20 years
Term
Santa Anna
Definition
leader of Mexico and sent his army to Texas to make sure the Texans obeyed his laws.
Term
motto of the war
Definition
"Remember the Alamo"
Term
who used to own Texas and Mexico
Definition
Spain
Term
President James K. Polk
Definition
did not want war with Mexico
Term
Henry Clay
Definition
made a 2nd compromise- said California should be free and all runaway slaves had to be caught and sent back to their masters
Term
What were slaves called?
Definition
property
Term
abolish
Definition
get rid of or stop slavery
Term
abolitionists
Definition
someone who wanted to do away with slavery
Term
Harriet Tubman
Definition
people called her "Moses"- she led more than 300 slaves to freedom
Term
Underground Railroad
Definition
an escape route that runaway slaves followed to freedom in the North
Term
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Definition
gave 2 more new territories the right to choose slavery or freedom
Term
Bleeding Kansas
Definition
terrible fighting between Kansas and Nebraska
Term
North
Definition
lived in cities, did not want slavery, factories
Term
South
Definition
lived on farms and wanted slavery
Term
Fort Sumter
Definition
the Union raised their flag and the Confederate Army shot at it
Term
What war did the battle of Fort Sumter begin?
Definition
American Civil War in 1861
Term
Confederacy or the Confederate States of America
Definition
South Carolina and six other states left the Union and formed a new country
Term
Abraham Lincoln
Definition
clerk in a general store, owner of a store, surveyor, post-office clerk, lawyer, President of the United States, against slavery, and called "Honest Abe"
Supporting users have an ad free experience!