Early US History
This branch of the U.S. government is responsible for enforcing laws.
Executive Branch
This term refers to areas set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes, often far from their ancestral lands.
Reservation
This man was a former slave who became a powerful abolitionist speaker and writer, publishing his autobiography and founding an abolitionist newspaper.
Frederick Douglass
This document, added to the U.S. Constitution, guarantees individual rights such as freedom of speech, religion, and assembly.
Bill of Rights
This term refers to the states that remained loyal to the U.S. government during the Civil War.
Union
This branch of the U.S. government makes the laws.
Legislative Branch
This term refers to the movement westward across the U.S. in the 19th century, driven by the belief that it was America's destiny to expand across the continent.
Manifest Destiny
This movement aimed to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption in the 19th century.
Temperance Movement
This 1848 document, drafted primarily by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, demanded equal rights for women, including the right to vote.
Declaration of Sentiments
This term refers to the group of states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War.
Confederacy
This branch interprets laws and ensures they are applied fairly.
Judicial Branch
This 1803 purchase from France doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
DAILY DOUBLE
This religious revival, which began in the early 19th century, sparked widespread social reforms, including the abolition of slavery and women's rights movements.
Second Great Awakening
This amendment provides people the freedom of speech, religion, petition, press, and assembly.
1st Amendment
This act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery, leading to bloody conflicts.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This event in 1786, led by Massachusetts farmers, highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
Shays Rebellion
This waterway, completed in 1825, connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, significantly boosting trade and transportation.
Erie Canal
Eli Whitney is credited with developing what machine in 1793, revolutionizing the cotton industry.
Cotton Gin
This landmark 1803 Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
Marbury v. Madison
This amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
What was the first governing document of the United States, which established a weak central government?
Articles of Confederation
This term refers to the forced relocation of Native American tribes, particularly in the southeastern U.S., during the 1830s.
Indian Removal Act
This influential abolitionist was a key figure in the American Anti-Slavery Society and published an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator.
William Lloyd Garrison
This 1792 presidential declaration warned European powers against further colonization in the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
This U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, freeing enslaved people in Confederate states.
Abraham Lincoln