Voting Rights
Term that means "the right to vote"
What is suffrage?
This was the largest total land gain during the expansion period and doubled the size of the US at the time (under President Jefferson)
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The President of the United States during the Civil War
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This document was signed by Abraham Lincoln and "freed" slaves in the Confederate States of America only
What is the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863?
The act of severing all connection to a parent country/nation, as South Carolina did first in the Civil War
What is secede?
This amendment to the US Constitution gave women over 21 the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
The expansion event that occurred after American's living in a soon-to-be-state revolted against Mexican rule and petitioned to join the US
What is the Annexation of Texas?
The ruler of Great Britain who ruled over 60 years and helped transition power from the monarch to Parliament
Who is Queen Victoria?
This amendment to the US Constitution freed all slaves and abolished the practice thereof
What is the 13th Amendment?
Period immediately following the US Civil War when Union soldiers occupied the Southern states
What was the Reconstruction Period?
This was the first country to give women the right to vote in 1893
What is New Zealand?
The belief that the United States had a duty and right to spread from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast
What is manifest destiny?
The prolific British explorer who was the first European to discover New Zealand and Australia
Who is James Cook?
The South Carolina site where the first battle of the Civil War occurred
What is Fort Sumter?
What is home-rule?
This amendment granted the right to vote to freedmen in the United States
What is the 15th Amendment?
This expansion event occurred through peaceful negotiation with the British Empire and added the Pacific Northwest to the United States
What is the Cession of Oregon?
Women's suffrage activist who led the aggressive Women's Social and Political Union in Britain
Who was Emmeline Pankhurst?
This is the side of the Civil War who had a larger population, greater resources, and more factories
What is the North (or Union or United States)?
Prejudice against people of Jewish heritage or descent
What is anti-semitism?
This was the British group that put forth the People's Charter and fought to expand voting rights
What is the Chartist Movement?
The expansion event that grew the lower 48 states to the same boundaries we have today
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Jewish Captain within the French Army who was imprisoned due to false evidence and growing anti-semitism in France
Who is Alfred Dreyfus?
This was the battle that led to the surrender of Confederate general Robert E Lee in Virginia
What is the Battle of Appomattox Court House?
Russian campaigns of violence against people of Jewish descent
What were pogroms?