Division Leading to the American Revolution
Acts such as the Stamp Act and Tea Act, as well as the ___________Massacre each contributed to a growing distrust amongst the British and Colonists.
Boston
In May 1775, war had already begun between British soldiers and armed Massachusetts citizens, as the previous month, British forces marching to ___________to seize arms in that town were met in Lexington by militiamen who tried to resist their advance.
Concord
The Civil War was fought between the ____________ and Southern American States.
Northern
On April 12, 1861, At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort ________ in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins.
Sumter
On July ___, 1776, Congress formally declared the United States an independent nation, and two days later it adopted the Declaration of Independence,
2nd
The Townshend duties __________ goods imported into the colonies.
taxed
The American Revolution formally began on
April 19th, _______.
1775
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln, who had declared "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free..." is elected president, the first __________________, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote.
Republican
The _________________________was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War which declared that all enslaved persons in the Confederate states still in rebellion against the United States "are and henceforward shall be free".
Emancipation Proclamation
The Declaration of Independence was authored by __________________ and revised by the Congress before its approval.
Thomas Jefferson
_______________ is widely recognized as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, making him one of the first martyrs of the American Revolution.
Crispus Attucks
The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War was the Battle of ______________ in 1781.
Yorktown
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina _____________from the American Union, then followed within two months by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.
secedes
On April 9, 1865, Gen. ____________________ surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
Robert E. Lee
Most of the declaration was a long list of grievances directed against King ________________, protesting recent policies that threatened to impose on the colonists “absolute tyranny.”
George III
The ______________________ was a pivotal political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts, in which American colonists destroyed an entire shipment of tea from the British East India Company to protest "taxation without representation" and the British government's monopoly on tea sales.
Boston Tea Party
It was during the Battle of Yorktown where the British forces under General Cornwallis surrendered to the combined American and French troops led by _________________________.
George Washington
On February 9, 1861, The Confederate States of America is formed with ____________________, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer, as president.
Jefferson Davis
On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln was watching the play Our American Cousin with his wife Mary Todd, Major Henry Rathbone, and Rathbone's fiancé Clara Harris when ________________________, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, shot him in the head assassinating the President.
John Wilkes Booth
The U.S. Constitution was officially ____________on June 21, 1788, when New Hampshire became the necessary ninth state to approve it, and the new American government began operating under the Constitution on March 4, 1789.
ratified
Although American merchants opposed the ______________ duties, the colonial opposition developed more slowly compared to the response to the Stamp Act.
Townshend
As the crisis intensified, more and more Americans based their claims for liberty not just on the historical rights of Englishmen but on more abstract language of natural rights and universal freedom, such as ideas and language included by _______________ that natural rights had existed within the establishment of government.
John Locke
March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as ____ President of the United States of America.
16th
The problem of how to reconstruct the Union in the wake of the South’s military defeat was one of the most difficult and perplexing challenges ever faced by American policy makers...this time period of rebuilding is known as the __________________ era.
Reconstruction
The first 10 amendments of the U.S Constitution are known as the __________________.
Bill of Rights