Reconstruction
This was Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction. It was not popular amongst his party, and with his death it never seen through.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
This war was fought between the British and French. In Europe it is known as the Seven Years War.
What is the French and Indian War?
In this ruling the Supreme Court stated that because Scott was black he was not a citizen of the United States and therefore he had no right to sue. The justices also declared that the Missouri Compromise and its attempt to restrict slavery in territories North of the 36x30 line was unconstitutional.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Lincoln was the first President from this political party which was mainly born out of the Northeast.
What is the Republican Party?
This Amendment states: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendement?
This famous phrase from the colonists was utter because of acts such as the Sugar Act and Stamp Act.
What is no taxation without representation?
This law was part of the compromise of 1850.It was a law that required citizens to catch runaway slaves. If a person did not comply, they could be fined up to $1000 or put in jail for six months.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
He was an impassioned champion of a strong federal government, and played a key role in ratifying the U.S. Constitution. He was also the the first secretary of the U.S. Treasury. A rival of Thomas Jefferson
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
While watching a play at this Theater Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
What was Ford Theater?
This Amendment states: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
What is the 13th Amendment?
A confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles.
What is the Boston Massacre?
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This was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States, meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws and statutes that they find to violate the Constitution of the United States
Marbury vs. Madison
This state was the first to leave the union once Lincoln was elected President in 1860. They had previously discussed leaving the Union during the Nullification Crisis under Andrew Jackson.
What is South Carolina?
This was an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people, freed from slavery by emancipation, in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This event happened in Narragansett Bay and while the Boston Party Tea might be more well known this event happened before it and was one of the first acts of rebellion.
What is the Burning of the Gaspee?
A series of violent civil confrontations in this Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This person serves as the President of the Senate.
Who is the Vice President of the United States?
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Gettysburg address
In order for him to win the Election of 1876 they had to strike the Compromise of 1877 which effectively ended Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
A loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Known for his role in Harpers Ferry and in Kansas he was eventually put to death, but not before he was quoted saying "he crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood."
Who is John Brown?
He is known as the Father of the Constitution because of his pivotal role in the document's drafting as well as its ratification.
Who is James Madison?
Lincoln became famous for debating this person for the Illinois Senate seat. He later ran against Lincoln in the 1860 Presidential Election.
Who is Stephen Douglas?