Reconstruction
What did the 13th Amendment accomplish?
It abolished slavery in the United States.
What factor drove the increase of slavery in the South?
The labor demands of growing cash crops on plantations.
Which amendment prevents the government from prohibiting certain religious beliefs?
The First Amendment
Tell me why delegates from the southern states supported the Three-Fifths Compromise.
Southern states would gain additional members in the House of Representatives, because they were allowed to count a portion of their slaves.
What did the 15th Amendment accomplish?
It guaranteed black men the right to vote.
Why did northern manufacturers support tariffs?
Tariffs encouraged Americans to purchase American made products instead of imports.
Why did many settlers immigrate to Pennsylvania and Maryland in the 1600s?
Quakers and Catholics were escaping religious persecution back home.
Tell me why lack of representation in British parliament was a leading cause of the American Revolution.
Colonists were forced to pay taxes on which they had no vote. They believed this was a violation of their rights as Englishmen.
What did the 14th Amendment accomplish?
It made the former slaves citizens and guaranteed equal protection and due process regardless of race or color.
This economic system is characterized by low government regulation and results in higher quality goods and fair prices based on supply and demand.
The Free Enterprise System
What puritan minister was kicked out of Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island Colony, based on religious toleration.
Roger Williams
Tell me why the Kansas-Nebraska Act caused an increase in sectional tension in the United States.
It allowed slavery to spread into the western territories.
What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
Give TWO purposes.
It helped freed slaves by providing 1) education, 2) food & clothing, 3) legal assistance
What is this economic system?
The Navigation Acts required American colonists to buy British goods and to sell their natural resources to British manufacturers.
Mercantilism
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are __________, ____________ & _______________.
Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
Tell me TWO reasons the Anti-Federalists opposed ratification of the Constitution.
1. It had no bill of rights.
2. It did not protect states' rights.
3. They feared the president might become a dictator.