Colonies
How many original British colonies were there?
13
Written by Thomas Jefferson, this landmark document adopted on July 4, 1776, announced the colonies' separation from Great Britain.
Declaration of Independence
Purchased from France in 1803 under President Thomas Jefferson, this land deal doubled the geographical size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
This President delivered the Gettysburg Address in November 1863 to dedicate a national cemetery during the Civil War.
Abrahm Lincoln
Ratified in 1865, this Constitutional Amendment officially abolished slavery throughout the United States.
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Known as the "breadbasket colonies" due to their fertile soil and high production of wheat, barley, and rye, this region included Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Middle Colonies
This 1820 congressional agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, establishing the 36°30' parallel line for slavery in Western territories.
Missouri Compromise
Taking effect on January 1, 1863, this presidential decree declared that all enslaved people in Confederate-controlled areas were free.
Emacipation Proclamation
Used to prevent Black Americans from voting.
poll tax or literacy test
Driven by a cold climate, rocky soil, and dense forests, this northern region built its economy around shipbuilding, fishing, whaling, and timber rather than large-scale farming.
New England Colonies
How many members are there in the Senate?
100
Who were forced from their lands to settle on reservations?
Native Americans
Name two of the 4 border states.
Delaware
Maryland
Kentucky
Missouri
Beginning in the 1870s and lasting until the 1960s, these state laws enforced racial segregation in schools, transportation, restaurants, and public spaces across the South.
Jim Crow Laws
The economy of the Southern Colonies relied heavily on these massive agricultural estates that grew labor-intensive cash crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo.
Plantations
How many members are in the House of Reprsentatives?
435
Ended by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, this conflict resulted in the U.S. acquiring present-day California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona and New Mexico
Mexican-American War
Where was President Lincoln Assignated?
Ford's Theater
Established in 1865, this federal agency helped newly freed African Americans and poor whites with food, medical care, education, and legal assistance.
Freedmen's Bureau
Signed aboard a ship in 1620, this document established a civil body politic for the Plymouth colonists.
Mayflower Compact
What are the three branches in the US Government?
Legislative, Executive and Judicial
What state was once an independent nation for a brief period of time?
Texas
At the end of the war, who was the General of the Confederate Army and who was the General of the Union Army?
General Lee and General Grant
What did the 14th and 15th amendments grant?
14th-This Constitutional Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
15th Black men right to vote