Colonization
Two Native nations that exist in the United States
What are the Pokanoket, Wampanoag, Massachusetts, or Narragansett?
The country the US fought against in the Revolutionary War.
What is England or the UK?
Large groups of Americans moving West for new opportunities
What is Westward Expansion?
These are the two sides in the Civil War.
What are the Union and the Confederacy?
What is the 15th amendment?
This country colonized the United States in 1607.
What is England or the UK?
This act forbad colonists from trading with other countries besides England.
What is the Navigation Act?
What is the Mexican American War?
The president of the Union and United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This system trapped poor farmers in a cycle of debt, and it made it harder for freedmen (newly freed slaves) to get ahead.
What is sharecropping?
The year that first enslaved people were brought to the United States.
What is 1619?
Paper, tea, and sugar
What are products that England added taxes to for the colonists?
This law gave any head of household over 21 free land in the West as long as they settled there for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This act required citizens to turn in anyone they suspected to be a runaway slave.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
To take away someone's rights, especially the right to vote.
What is the definition of disenfranchise?
The room where you take US History classes.
What is 211?
It started because the colonists were taxed without consent and they wanted independence from England.
What is the cause of the American Revolution?
An event where Cherokee and Seminole people were forced to move West without their consent.
What is the Indian Removal Act or Trail of Tears?
This was a white abolitionist that believed violence was the only way to end slavery.
Who is John Brown?
This amendment says that slavery is illegal unless you are convicted of a crime.
What is the 13th amendment?
January 21, 2026
What is today's date?
They believed in government by consent of the people, a nation of laws and not men, all men are created equal, and the people have the right to elect a new government if the current one doesn't work.
What are ideals of the American Revolution or beliefs of the Founding Fathers?
These two groups of people supported the Indian Removal Act.
What is the Andrew Jackson administration and white settlers and farmers?
This unfair Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans did not count as citizens and didn't have the right to sue for their freedom.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This amendment says that anyone born in the United States is a citizen, states can't take away your rights, and the law is the same for everyone.
What is the 14th amendment?