Revolution Review
This document was signed on July 4, 1776
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This President ran on a tough Native policy and delivered terrible results to the 5 "Civilized Nations"
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This General and then President broke the siege of Vicksburg and led the Union army to victory
Who is Grant?
This Battle marked the limit of Southern advance, and was also the deadliest of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
This Amendment ended slavery
What is the 13th?
The first ten amendments are commonly referred to as this
What is the Bill of Rights?
Cherokee leader John Ross sued the US Government in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia to this court
What is the Supreme Court?
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
The siege of this Southern Capital was one of the last to fall but marked the beginning of the end of the Civil War.
What is Richmond, VA?
This 1850 law made runaway slaves "stolen property" demanding their return to the south.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This compromise denied slaves the right to vote but counted them partially for legislative representation.
What is the 3/5ths compromise?
Revolutionary War soldiers exchanged owed salaries for land in this state (or territory) where Shawnee fighters like Tecumseh lived
Where is Ohio? (Or the Northwest territory)
This General surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The Battle of the Crater saw some of the first freed slaves fight for the Union after this Lincoln executive order.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Slaves first landed in 1619 in this early American colony.
What is Jamestown, VA?
This branch of government oversees the military.
What is the Executive Branch?
Historians call this year-named war the "Second War of Independence" between US and British forces with native nations fighting on both sides
What is the War of 1812?
This Abolitionist ran over 13 missions along the Underground Railroad, saving over 70 people.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The attack on Ft Sumter took place in this state, the first to succeed from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This passage refers to the shipment of slaves to the Caribbean and Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
This coastal American city was held for 7 years during the revolution.
What is NYC?
Some historians cite this battle as the start of the Mexican- American War.
What is the Alamo?
He was president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Gen Sherman brought this style of war to the south, burning and destroying a path from Kentucky "to the sea".
What is Total War?
This man sued his master's wife for freedom in a monumental supreme court case in Missouri.
Who is Dred Scott?