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point of view—a person’s view of someone or
something; standpoint
bias—a favorable or unfavorable opinion about
someone or something that makes it difficult to be
open-minded about new information; prejudice
What should you do first when reading
a map, graph, or chart?
Circle the title
What should you do first when reading
a primary source?
Circle the author
North (Blue)
Union
Abraham Lincoln—President
of the United States
Ulysses S. Grant—
Commanding General of the
United States
South (Gray)
Confederacy
Jefferson Davis—President of
the Confederate States of
America
U.S. Acquisitions
1) Original 13 States and Territory—Treaty of Paris 1783
2) Louisiana Purchase—Jefferson approved purchase in 1803
3) Florida—acquired by negotiation in 1819
4) Annexation of Texas—U.S. annexed Texas in 1845
5) Oregon Territory—acquired by negotiation with England,
1846
6) Mexican Cession—acquired by conquest at the end of the
Mexican War, 1848
7) Gadsden Purchase—purchased from Mexico in 1853
industrialization—using industry (factories and trade) on a large
scale
urbanization—more people moving to live in the cities so as to
work in industry
mass production—the production of large quantities of items by
machines
assembly line—a line of factory workers and equipment along
which a product being assembled passes with each person
completing just one part of the construction
Frederick Douglass—abolitionist and former slave
Elizabeth Cady Stanton—worked for women’s rights
Harriet Beecher Stowe—wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin which
increased anti-slavery feelings in the North
Robert E. Lee—Commanding
General of the Confederate
States of America
President Jackson’s Cherokee Indian Resettlement—white
people in Georgia wanted control over the Cherokees and their
lands. Congress passed and Pres. Jackson signed the Indian
Removal Act which would move all Cherokees from east of the
Mississippi to Indian Territory.
Trail of Tears—Cherokees were forced to leave their farms and
cattle and move to Indian Territory. About 4000 died on the
move because of lack of food, freezing weather, and disease.
federalism—power is shared between central (federal)
government and state governments
popular sovereignty—a government in which the people rule
limited government—government is limited to the power given
it by the Constitution
republicanism—people elect representatives to exercise power
individual rights—unalienable rights guaranteed to all citizens
checks and balances—each branch can check the other two
separation of powers—each branch of government as separate
powers (legislature makes laws; executive enforces laws; judicial
interprets laws)
economic—deals with the production, distribution and use of
goods and money
social—deals with the life, well being, and relations of human
beings in a community
political—deals with government and governing
geographic—the natural features, population, industries and
resources of a region
steamboat—made it easier and faster to transport goods and
people up and down rivers
cotton gin—made growing cotton more profitable because it
quickly separated cotton fiber from seeds. To increase their
own wealth, plantation owners purchased more slaves to
grow more cotton.
public education—pushed to educate more people
abolitionism—the movement to end slavery
temperance—campaign to stop the sale and drinking of alcohol
women’s rights—working to obtain the right to vote for women
(suffrage)
primary source—written
by an eyewitness, someone
who lived at the time
interviews
speeches
letters
photographs
artifacts
secondary source—writes
about history but didn’t
experience the event
himself/herself
biography
textbook