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100
This act of rebellion caused the British Empire to close the port city of Boston
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
This federal government agency looked to rebuild the South, and had success in improving education and health care
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
100
This Supreme Court justice ruled in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia that American Indians were considered wards of the federal government
Who is Chief Justice John Marshall?
100
The amount of money invested in this economic institution exceeded those investments in factories, railroads and banks combined
What is slavery?
100
This Amendment stated no one could denied the right to vote based on race
What is the 15th Amendment?
100
He was an education reformer from the state of Massachusetts who felt knowledge was the gateway to power
Who is Horace Mann?
200
It became slogan coined by Patrick Henry in response to the Stamp Act
What is taxation without representation?
200
Frederick Douglass thought the celebration of this holiday highlighted the hypocrisy of America
What is the 4th of July?
200
In 1832, Chief Justice John Marshall ruled in this case that the Cherokee people had the right to maintain their own nation, a separate political identity
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
200
Preston Brooks nearly beat to death this Senator of Massachusetts who was known as a Radical Republican?
Who is Charles Sumner?
200
Slavery was protected by this document of laws and was ratified in 1787.
What is the United States Constitution?
200
William Lloyd Garrison published this abolitionist newspaper
What is The Liberator?
300
Union army conducted scorched earth methods, destroyed railroads, and attacked civilian property.
What is known as total war?
300
This law passed in states like Mississippi gave whites the power to arrest Blacks under vagrancy laws if they refused to sign a labor contract
What are the Black Codes?
300
Neolin, a Delaware prophet, inspire this rebellion in 1763
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
300
Roger Taney ruled in this Supreme Court case that Black people were not US citizens with rights and protections
What is the Dred Scott case?
300
This Amendment states that all people born on US soil have rights and equal protection of the laws
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
North Carolina free Black man wrote this pamphlet the Appeal of the Coloured Citizens of the World
Who is David Walker?
400
The policy that the British government largely left the colonists to govern themselves
What is salutary neglect?
400
These acts were passed to stop the terrorist activities of the Ku Klux Klan
What are the Enforcement Acts or Force Acts?
400
The name of the treaty that sealed the fate of the Cherokee nation
What is the Treaty of New Echota?
Audio Daily Double Name that Tune
400
By 1860, the slave population in the United States had reached this number of people
What is 4 million?
400
During the Constitutional Convention, the smaller states wanted to make sure they had two representatives in the Senate, so they came up with this idea
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
This religious group was opposed to the temperance movement
Who are the Catholics?
500
The trial of John Peter Zenger, a journalist, gave support to this constitutional right
What is the freedom of speech?
Audio Daily Double Name that Tune
500
He was responsible for the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre and the raid on Harper's Ferry
Who is John Brown?
Audio daily Double: Name that tune!
500
The United States paid Mexico $15 million dollars to annex Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California in this treaty
What is the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
This law permitted federal officials to force anyone to help retrieve slaves through a posse comitatus.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
500
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other allies wrote this document which condemned inequality between men and women
What is the Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments?
500
The annexation of this state from Mexico was hotly linked to slavery
What is Texas? Audio Daily Double! Name that tune!
600
Which founding national document did the abolitionists use to link themselves to America's revolutionary heritage?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
600
The beating suffered by Charles Sumner brought support to the views of this political party
What is the Republican Party?
600
The Compromise of 1850 centered on the admission of this state as a free state
What is California?
600
The forced migration of African people to the Americas is known as this
What is the Middle Passage?
600
This Amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States
What is the 13th?
600
This law passed by British Parliament stated that the colonists must pay taxes if Parliament told them so
What is the Declaratory Act?