Slavery
The Amendment to the Constitution that gave black males the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment.
The country aided the American Colonist in their fight against the British.
Who is France?
The American President responsible for the Louisiana Purchase?
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Considered the Father of the Constitution..
Who is James Madison?
The President of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems,
What was the Reconstruction Era?
He offered to surrender West Point to the British, and he led a British attack on New London, Connecticut, in 1781. His name became an epithet for traitor in the United States.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
Victory in this war gained California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming to the United States
What is the Mexican-American War?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
What is the 2rd Amendment?
On November 15, 1864, U.S. forces led by this General burned nearly all of the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia.
Who is Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman?
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.
What is the fugitive slave clause?
America's scientist, inventor, politician, philanthropist and business man. He is best known as the only Founding Father who signed all three documents that freed America from Britain.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The powers conferred to the legislative branch are covered by this Article.
What is Article I?
The deadliest one-day battle in American military history. It also gave President Abraham Lincoln the confidence to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force.
What are the Black Codes?
The Continental Army's transformative experiences at this location reshaped it into a more unified force capable of defeating the British and winning American independence during the remaining five years of the war
What is Valley Forge?
President responsible for the Mexican-American War.
Who was Zachary Taylor?
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
What is the 8th Amendment?
Opposed Lincoln as the Democratic Party candidate in the 1864 presidential election, advocating a peace platform, but was soundly defeated.
Who was George McClellan?
Prohibited slavery in new territories which set ethical and political precedents for the expansion of the United States.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
A Harvard-educated lawyer, he early became identified with the patriot cause; a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses, he led in the movement for independence. During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles, and helped negotiate the treaty of peace.
Who was John Adams?
The Lewis and Clark Expedition began on May 14, 1804, when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's 41-person crew set off from what city?
What is St. Louis?
The three delegates who did not sign the Constitution.
Who were George Mason, Elbridge Gerry, and Edmund Randolph?
Look, men! There is ______ standing like a stone wall!
Who is General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?