Expansion and Colonization & American Revolution
Pilgrims and other religious groups fled England for this reason
What is religious freedom?
This former president's farewell address warned against the dangers of political factions, advised neutrality in foreign conflicts, and encouraged fiscal responsibility
What is George Washington's Farewell Address?
This process led to the mass production of steel
What is the Bessemer Process?
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
These amendments were the driving force to freeing enslaved people and integrating them into society
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
Turning point of the Revolutionary War
Added to the constitution so the Anti-Federalists would ratify it
What is the Bill of Rights
This act led to the Trail of Tears
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Bloodiest Battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The first English colony in North America
What is Jamestown?
This court case established the process of Judicial Review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Completed in 1869 and massively improved transportation and trade between the coasts
The reform movement that was in favor of removing alcohol from society
What is the Temperance Movement?
A system where laborers worked land owned by someone else in return for a share of the crops often leading to a cycle of debt
What is Sharecropping?
These British Acts led to the inclusion of the 3rd amendment
What is the Quartering Acts of 1765 and 1774?
This amendment to the constitution reserved powers not delegated to the federal government to the states or the people
Major court case that favored Native Americans, but was ignored by Andrew Jackson
What is Worcestor vs. Georgia?
Andrew Jackson removed Native Americans from their homeland in order to fulfill this idea
What is Manifest Destiny?
The opening Battle of the Civil War
The first document of self government in America
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This former president famously said that the Americas were closed off to any more European colonization
Who is James Monroe?
Artificial waterway that improved transportation and trade, completed in 1825
What is the Erie Canal?
This invention revolutionized long distance communication in the 1830's
What is the telegraph?
Laws passed in Southern States in order to restrict the freedom of formerly enslaved people and force them back into labor
What are the Black Codes?