Unit 1: Revolutionary America
Before becoming independent, the 13 colonies were part of this country.
What is Great Britian/England
This branch of government makes laws.
What is the legislative branch.
In 1803, the United States bought this territory from France, doubling the sizing of the country.
What is the Louisiana Purchase.
This reform movement sought to end slavery.
What is the abolitionist movement
These laws DURING Reconstruction in the South restricted the rights of formerly enslaved people.
What are Black Codes
This document declared the colonies independent from Britain in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence.
This system divides power among legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is separation of powers.
This U.S. president was nicknamed the "precedent president"
Who is George Washington
These states supported slavery and seceded from the United States.
What are the Confederate states/ What is the Confederacy
This bureau helped formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
This 1770 event increased tension after British soldiers killed several colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre
This principle allows each branch to limit the power of the others.
What is checks and balances
This president sent Lewis and Clark to explore mapped lands west of the Mississippi River after the Louisiana territory was purchased.
Who is Thomas Jefferson
According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Kansas and Nebraska territories would be open to slavery based on...
What is popular sovereignty
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment
This famous colonial slogan protested being taxed by Britain without having representatives in Parliament.
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights
This belief claimed it was America’s destiny to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny
This 1863 speech by Abraham Lincoln honored soldiers lost at battle.
What is the Gettysburg Address
This system allowed landowners to rent land to farmers who paid with a portion of their crops, often keeping many formerly enslaved people in poverty after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping
The first battles of the American Revolution were fought here in 1775
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
The Great Compromise created these two parts of Congress.
What are the Senate and House of Representatives
This conflict between the United States and Great Britain is sometimes called the “second war for independence" and included a series of events such as the burning of the White House and the writing of the Star Spangled Banner
What is the War of 1812
This 1865 event marked the end of the Civil War when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
What is the Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
This law divided the South into military districts and required Southern states to ratify the 14th Amendment in order to rejoin the Union.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867