Revolution & Constitution
The 1776 document listed colonial grievances against Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The first U.S. president.
Who is George Washington?
The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The election that triggered Southern secession.
What is the Election of 1860?
Journalists who exposed corruption in politics and business.
Who are muckrackers?
The event that marked the first battles of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
Hamilton's economic plan included paying off these.
What is the national debt?
Andrew Jackson's policy of forcing Native Americans west.
What is the Indian Removal?
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The president associated with trust-busting.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced colonial ideas about natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
The foreign policy position urged in Washington's Farewell Address.
What is neutrality?
Religious movement that inspired reform efforts.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
The document that freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is the 17th Amendment?
The weak system of government was created by America's first constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The Supreme Court Case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This war resulted in the U.S. gaining territory from Mexico.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Plan for reintegrating Southern states after the war.
What is Reconstruction?
Law that improved food safety standards.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Compromise that settled Representation in Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
The 1803 acquisition doubled the U.S. Territory.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The reform movement focused on ending slavery.
What is abolitionism?
Amendment granting citizenship and equal protection.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The amendment that granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?