13 COLONIES
a meeting to discuss how the colonies should respond to increased British oppression.
First Continental Congress
This abolished slavery in rebellion states
Emancipation Proclamation
Abolitionist who used violent tactics and led the raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown
President at the beginning of Reconstruction, democrat.
Andrew Johnson
I was the general for the Confederate Army and surrendered at Appotomax
Robert E. Lee
a U.S. government agency that helped formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the years after the Civil War
Freedmen's Bureau
a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the American colonies for the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Thomas Jefferson negotiated the purchase of ____ from France
Louisiana Purchase or Louisiana Territory
The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision concluded that...
that enslaved people could not expect protection from the federal government or courts
Lincoln's reconstruction plan that was considered too lenient was called...
I am the author of "Common Sense"
Thomas Paine
What election proved the country was sectionally divided based on the issue of slavery?
Election of 1860
How were the Middle Colonies unique from the New England Colonies?
Religious Toleration in the Middle Colonies
List the first THREE presidents. (must get all & in the correct order to get these points)
1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
This called for a land and naval attack down the Mississippi River to cut the Confederacy in two
Anaconda Plan
List THREE SPECIFIC ways African Americans were restricted during the Reconstruction era
- black codes
- grandfather clause
- sharecropping
- KKK / violence
-literacy tests / poll taxes
I was the president who put the Indian Removal Act into place
Andrew Jackson
What was a MAJOR difference between the federalists and the democratic republicans?
- states rights vs. federal government
- industrial vs. agricultural economies
a type of colony in British America during the 17th century where the king granted land to an individual or family to rule over
proprietary colony
This author of the Declaration of Independence ran for president in the election of 1800. Name him and his opponent
Thomas Jefferson & John Adams
The Kansas Nebraska Act gave the white residents of each territory the right to vote on whether to allow slavery when applying for statehood. This is called
Popular Sovereignty
Name the two main candidates during the Election of 1876 AND their political party
Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat)
Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
I am the politician who was AGAINST the National Bank, believing it gave the federal government too much power
Thomas Jefferson
- population size
-more railroads & telegraphs
-more military
a boundary established by the British to limit where European colonists could settle in America after the French and Indian War.
Proclamation Line of 1763
Marbury v. Madison was a landmark 1803 Supreme Court case that established
Judicial Review
This compromise over westward expansion added Maine as a free state
Missouri Compromise (1820)
On paper. List TWO of the things listed in the Compromise of 1877
1. Hayes would be president
2. Taking Military out of south
3. Southern states could run themselves without interference from the federal gov.
4. Support southern infrastructure / add one Democrat to Hayes cabinet
I am the POLITICAL PARTY known for creating the Wade-Davis Bill
Radical Republicans
According to abolitionist Frederick Douglas, what was the "pathway from slavery to freedom"
Education