Origins of the American Nation
Young Republic
Antebellum America
Sectional Crisis
Civil War & Reconstruction
100
The men who led expeditions to conquer what today is Mexico and Central America
What is conquistador?
100
The United States gained a huge chunk of land after purchasing it from France in 1803. The name this chunk of land is given
What is the Louisiana Territory?
100
These made traveling upstream in rivers faster and made river travel more reliable
What are steamboats?
100
the idea that God had given the entire continent to the Americas and it was their divine right to expand all the way west to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The name the Southern states gave themselves as a whole once they seceded from the North
What is the Confederate States of America?
200
Fighting between the French and British that began in 1754 in North America is known as
What is French and Indian War
200
The nation's first 2 political parties
What are the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans?
200
This machine, created by Eli Whitney, separates the cotton from its' seeds and revolutionized cotton production in the South
What is the cotton gin?
200
90% of the nation's __________ were located in the North in 1860
What is factories?
200
This announced all enslaved people in states of rebellion free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
The region that today includes central and southern Mexico and Central America
What is Mesoamerica?
300
The name for the proposition given at the Constitutional Convention suggesting that Congress be broken down into 2 parts, the House of Representatives based on population and the Senate based on equal representation
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
300
The leading economic activity in the United States in the early 1800's
What is farming?
300
This state joined the United States in 1845
What is Texas?
300
This Civil War battle divided the Confederacy in two and was an important win for the North because it was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River
What is Vicksburg?
400
The year that Columbus reached the Bahamas
What is 1492?
400
The system created to prevent any one of the branches of government from being too powerful
What is checks and balances?
400
The name for people who argued that slaves should be freed immediately without paying the former slaveholders
What are abolitionists?
400
This attempt at compromise caused many free African Americans to be falsely taken into custody and placed into slavery
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
400
The amendment that outlawed slavery
What is the thirteenth amendment?
500
Some Puritans decided that the church of England was too corrupt to be reformed. In 1620 a group of them, later known as Pilgrims, set sail from England on the Mayflower and made a home in this set of colonies, seeking religious freedom
What are the New England colonies?
500
The Supreme Court case of 1803 that gave the Judicial Branch their power to use "judicial review", or decide the constitutionality of a proposed law
What is Marbury v. Madison?
500
One amendment decided slavery could expand into Arkansas but not the rest of the Louisiana Territory, and that also Maine would be admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery to continue spreading into new territories, allowing decisions about the issue to be left to popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
500
The Civil War saved the Union and strengthened the federal government's power over the ______?
What is states?
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