Reconstruction
Misc.
Vocabulary
Misc.
Misc.
100
Name given by southerners to northern whites who went south to start businesses or pursue political office
What are carpetbaggers
100
Discovered at Sutter's Mill in California in 1849
What is gold
100
Setting an example for how things should be done in the future
What is precedent
100
Santa Anna laid siege to this during the war for Texas independence
What is the Alamo
100
Explorers of the Louisiana Territory who inspired many people to move West
Who were Lewis and Clark
200
A group pardon
What is amnesty
200
Name of pro-British political party of Alexander Hamilton
What is Federalists
200
A principle of the US Constitution that gives each branch of government the power to limit the actions of the other branches
What is checks and balances
200
To find a safe place to practice their religion, Mormons immigrated to this state
What is Utah
200
The weak document that preceded the Constitution. It gave the federal government no power to regulate trade, tax, or enforce laws.
What is The Articles of Confederation
300
Southern whites who had opposed secession
Who are scalawags
300
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
300
A fighter who works as part of a small band to make hit-and-run attacks
What is guerrilla
300
The person Abraham Lincoln debated in a series of Illinois debates
Who is Stephen Douglas
300
English colonists expected the same rights English nobles had forced King John to give them in this document
What is the Magna Carta
400
President who was impeached by Radical Republicans
Who is Andrew Johnson
400
Started as a colony where Catholics could worship freely
What is Maryland
400
Practice of having more than one wife at a time
What is polygamy
400
The inventor of the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney
400
Belief that other people should be able to practice their own religion is called religious ________________.
What is toleration
500
The nation's first African American senator
Who is Hiram Revels
500
Started the Committees of Correspondence
Who is Samuel Adams
500
Huge outdoor religious meeting
What is revival
500
Known as the Great Compromiser for creating the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
Who is Henry Clay
500
Amendment that the Sedition Act violated
What is the first amendment
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