Anglophone Civilization II

Some terms to help you prepare for the 2nd Partial (Monday, May 4)

Places People
Canada Thomas Jefferson
Florida George Washington
Texas Alexander Hamilton
Oregon “Davy” Crockett
Mississippi River Antonio López de Santa Ana
Rio Grande River Sam Houston
Great Lakes John Brown
General Ulysses S. Grant
Territorial Expansion General William T. Sherman
General Robert E. Lee
Monroe Doctrine
General “Stonewall” Jackson
Louisiana Purchase
Manifest Destiny
Society
Mississippi River
Mexican Cession Monroe Doctrine
Oregon Manifest Destiny
“Cotton is King”
Wars (and Other Disorders) Slavery
Abolitionists
War of Independence
Reconstruction
Battle of Yorktown
Klu Klux Klan
Quasi-War
“Jim Crow” Laws
Barbary Wars
War of 1812
Battle of Lake Erie Symbols
Battle of New Orleans The Liberty Bell
Burning of Washington
“Old Ironsides”
“Trail of Tears” (Indian Removal)
Impressment of American sailors Independence Hall
(as a cause of the War of 1812)
Texas Revolution Songs
Battle of the Alamo Yankee Doodle
Battle of San Jacinto
Star Spangled Banner (National Anthem)
Mexican-American War
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Civil War (War of Secession)
Dixie
Bombardment of Fort Sumter
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Battle of Vicksburg
Negro Spirituals
Battle of Gettysburg
Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox
Phrases
Documents & Institutions “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all
Declaration of Independence men are created equal and are endowed by
Articles of Confederation their creator with certain unalienable rights,
that among these are life, liberty and the
Constitution of the United States
pursuit of happiness”.
Bill of Rights (First 10 Amendments)
Federal System of Government “We have met the enemy and he is ours”.
3 Branches of Government “Don’t give up the ship!”
Emancipation Proclamation
“Remember the Alamo!”
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
Inventors and Inventions
Eli Whitney (Cotton Gin)
Robert Fulton (Steamboat)
Samuel Morse (Telegraph)
Trans-Continental Railroad
Erie Canal

Literature
Harriett Beecher Stowe (“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”)
Mark Twain (“Adventures of Tom Sawyer”,
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”)
Herman Melville (“Moby Dick”)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (“The Scarlett Letter”)
Emily Dickinson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Walt Whitman
Edgar Alan Poe
James Fennimore Cooper (“Last of the Mohicans”)
Washington Irving (“Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “Rip Van Winkle”)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essay: “On Resistance to Civil Government”)
Henry David Thoreau