Top 90 Vocab

Written in 1787 –

• US Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Gettysburg Address

• Articles of Confederation

President Thomas Jefferson purchased this from France in 1803 –

• Oregon Territory

• Louisiana Territory

• Mexican Cession

• Texas Annexation

The was an agreement signed by the Pilgrims in 1620 –

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

A tax placed on goods from another country to protect the home industry –

• Embargo

• Ratify

• Repeal

• Protective Tariff

Belief that the United States should own all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans –

• Manifest Destiy

• Salutory Neglect

• Bleeding Kansas

• Mason Dixon

Split the Confederacy in two and gave the North control of the Mississippi River –

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Trenton

Signed on July 4, 1776 –

• US Constitution

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

• Mayflower Compact

1861-1865 –

• Manifest Destiny

• American Revolution

• Reconstruction

• Civil War

Served as the first battles of the American Revolution –

• Fort Sumter

• Lexington & Concord

• Yorktown

• Appomattox Courthouse

The site of Washington’s encampment during the winter of 1777-1778. More than 1/5 of the soldiers died from disease or starvation –

• Princeton

• Antietam

• Valley Forge

• Saratoga