U.S. History Sem. 1 Vocab Flashcards
Alfred Mahan
US Navy Admiral that convinced the US government to construct many new battleships
Joesph Smith
Founded the Mormons
John Hoeven
North Dakota’s US Senator
Edwin Stanton
His dismissal lead to Johnston’s impeachment
Clara Barton
Civil War nurse; founded the Red Cross
Ben Franklin
Oldest delegate to attend Constitutional Convention
Harriet Tubman
Helped more than 300 slaves safely flee the South by using the Underground Railroad
Hiram Revels
First African-American senator in history
Patrick Henry
Anti-Federalist leader
John Deere
Invented steel plow
Kevin Cramer
North Dakota’s US Representative
Woodrow Wilson
Winner of the 1916 presidential election
Jeanette Rankin
First women in Congress elected to the House of Representatives in 1916 from Montanta
Nat Turner
Led a bloody slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831
George Dewey
Naval commander who led the American forces that steamed in to Manila Bay and destroyed the Spanish fleet during the Spanish-American War
Edmund Randolph
Governor of Virginia who proposed the Virginia Plan
William Taft
President whose actions split the Republican party after he angered both progressives and conservationists
Teddy Roosevelt
At 42 years old, he was the youngest president
Thaddeus Stevens
Major leader of the Radical Republicans
George Washington
Elected presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention
James Madison
Proposed the idea of using the electoral college in chosing the President
yellow journalism
Sensational style of writing that exaggerates the truth to lure new readers
19th Amendment
Granted women the right to vote
17th Amendment
Allowed for the popular, or direct, election of senators
Prolific Diaz
Military dictator who ruled Mexico for more than 3 decades before the Mexican Revolution
Reconstruction
Period of rebuilding after the Civil War
William Tecumseh Sherman
Military commander during the Civil War who lead a march southeast through Georgia, creating a wide path of destruction
William Seward
Arranged to buy Alaska for the US from the Russians
Sojourner Truth
Leading spokesperson for the rights of African-American women
manifest destiny
the 19th century belief that the US would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific and into Mexican territory
recall
the procedure for removing a public official from office by a vote of the people
referendum
a procedure by which a proposed legislative measure can be submitted to a vote of the people
Ex Post Facto
a law which allows a person to be convicted or punished without a trial
imperialism
the policy of extending a nation’s authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means
abolition
movement to end slavery
abolition
movement to end slavery
entrepreneurs
a person who organizes, operates and assumes the risk for a business venture
scalawags
white Southerner who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War
14th Amendment
makes all citizens born or naturalized in the US, including former slaves, citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws
market revolution
the major change in the US economy produced by people’s beginning to buy and sell goods rather than make them for themselves
Teller Amendment
Stated that the United States had no intention of taking over any part of Cuba
Delaware
The first state to ratify the Constitution
carpetbagger
A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War
Slavery
Peculiar institution
muckraker
One of the magazine journalists who exposed the corrupt side of businesses and public life in the early 1900’s
Battle of Vicksburg
Turning point of civil war in the west
initiative
A procedure by which a legislative measure can be originated by the people rather than by the lawmakers
Battle of Gettysburg
Turning point of CivilWar in the east
