Abc termsBy :Armando aguilar

Alexander Hamilton- Author of many of the Federalist Papers, First secretary of treasury, leader of federalist

Adams, John- XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition

A

Benjamin Franklin- Author, publisher, inventor and diplomat

Bleeding Kansas- Conflict between proslavery and antislavery people in Kansas from 1854-1859

B

Creswell Wentworth- Educated African American Patriots made the same midnight ride as Paul Revere warning the British are coming

Crispus Attuck – American Hero and Martyr of the Boston Massacre

C

Dorathea Dix- Reformer who fought to improve the care of the mentally ill

Dawes Act- Indians policy that broke up reservation into individual land plots

D

Eli Whitney- Invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts

Emancipation Proclamation- Free all of the slaves in the Southern States

E

Federalism- power of government into three branches

Fort Sumter- first shots Civil War before supplies could arrive Confederate troops attack the Fort and the Civil War begins

F

Gadsden Purchase- 1853 Land purchase from Mexico in use to complete the transcontinental railroad

G George

Washington 1st presendent

Homestead Act- Law that a person could claim 160 aces of land in the Western territories

Henry Clay- Known as the Great Compromiser

H

Intolerable Parts- Close Boston, Formed First Continental Congress

Imports- to buy goods from Foreign markets

I

John Deere – Inventor of the steel plow

John Brown- Militant Abolitionist who led Reid at Harper’s Ferry

J

Kansas-Nebraska Act- all were example of the government compromise that actually spread slavery further

King George 3- king of England during the American Revolution

K

Louisiana Purchase land brought by U.S in 1803

Limited Government- place strict limited on government to protect the people

L

Morrill Act- land grant that established agricultural universities

Manifest Destiny- this was the game it’s the idea that the US was destined

M