Revolutions
Haiti gained independence from this European nation.
What is France?
These are changes or additions made to the Constitution.
What are amendments?
This policy forced Native Americans from their land during Andrew Jackson’s presidency.
What was Indian Removal?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This group of African Americans migrated from the post-Civil War South to the Great Plains, primarily Kansas, in the late 1870.
Who are the Exodusters?
This leader headed the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
This branch can veto laws passed by Congress.
What is the Executive Branch?
This railroad connected the East and West coasts and helped economic growth.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
General Robert E. Lee surrendered here in 1865, effectively ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
The Haitian Revolution was unique because it became the most successful revolution against this system.
What is slavery?
This part of the Constitution outlines the powers and limitations of the three branches of government.
What are the Articles?
This law stopped most Chinese immigration to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
John Brown led this attack on a Virginia arsenal hoping to start a slave rebellion.
What is Harper’s Ferry?
This social group held the most power in Spanish colonies.
Who were Peninsulares?
Many people in this group opposed ratifying the Constitution because they believed it did not adequately protect individual rights and demanded a Bill of Rights.
What are the Anti-Federalist?
This is an organized group that seeks to influence government by getting its members selected to public office.
What is a political party?
The overall goal of these Reconstruction amendments was to protect the rights of this group.
Who were formerly enslaved people?
Latin American Revolutions gained their independence from these two European countries.
What are Portugal and Spain?
This leader helped lead Latin American independence movements.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
These are the 5 rights protected by the 1st Amendment
What are:
R- Religion
A- Assembly
P- Press
P- Petition
S- Speech
This event saw many people move from rural areas to cities for job opportunities.
What is The Industrial Revolution?
This belief developed in the South after the Civil War and justified the Confederacy by emphasizing honor and states’ rights while minimizing slavery’s role in causing the war.
What is the Lost Cause myth?
These were the first two political parties in the United States.
Federalists and Democratic-Republicans