American Independence
This document officially severed ties between the American colonies and England, as well as establish American soveriegnty.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This document was the basis of the first national government of the United States of America.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This term refers to tensions between Northern states and Southern states during the Antebellum period.
What is Sectionalism?
When Southern states seceded in 1860-1861, they formed this "nation".
What is the Confederacy?
This term describes the growth of cities in the U.S. during the Industrial Period (late 1800s - early 1900s).
What is urbanization?
This was the first English settlement established in North America in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London.
What is Jamestown?
People who opposed the ratification of the US Constitution were known as this.
What are Anti-Federalists?
This was a series of economic changes, including the development of new modes of transportation and the beginnings of industrialization, during the Antebellum period.
What is the Market Revolution?
This law, passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, required Northern civilians to take part in the re-enslavement of runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
This amendment to the US Constitution prohibits any state from passing laws that disenfranchise American citizens on the basis of gender.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This war (lasting from 1754-1763) is considered the first domino on the road to the American Revolution.
What is the French and Indian War.
George Washington established a number of these, including serving two terms in office and creating a cabinet of advisors.
What are Precedents?
This was a series of Protestant religious revivals during the Antebellum period that encouraged Americans to engage in social reform movements, such as the Abolition Movement and the Temperance Movement.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This document, issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, allowed Black men to enlist in the military for the first time during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The three goals of this movement included: (1) to limit the power of big business; (2) to democratize American politics; and (3) to strengthen social justice.
What is the Progressive Movement?
These are enlightenment philosopher John Locke's three natural rights.
What are Life, Liberty, and Property?
This clause to the US Constitution was a compromise between Northern states and Southern states over the issue of political representation in the national government.
What is the Three-Fifths Clause?
This abolitionist founded the publication The North Star, as well as encouraged President Lincoln to allow black men to fight in the Civil War.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This political concept called on the citizens of a given territory to decide on the legality of slavery in that territory.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
As a result of this war, the United States acquired territories around the world, including Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This was the basic economic theory behind European colonization in the early modern era (1400-1700), based on obtaining a favorable balance of trade.
What is Mercantilism?
As George Washington's Secretary of Treasury, this person helped created a financial system that included the national bank and a tax on whiskey.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
John Marshall's famous supreme court ruling that established the concept of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
These were members of Congress who opposed Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction because it was too lenient on ex-Confederate states.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This term is used to describe glitz and glam of American society during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is the Gilded Age?