People
This man was President of the United States during the Civil War and was known as the "Great Emancipator" for abolishing slavery.
Abraham Lincoln
The war between the North and the South.
Civil War
This document laid out the rules for the U.S. government, including the three branches and the checks and balances.
U.S. Constitution
The word for ending/banning slavery.
Abolition
The author of Night.
Elie Wiesel
This former President also wrote the Declaration of Independence. He was known as an Anti-Federalist because he believed in small government, farming, and individual rights.
Thomas Jefferson
This was the war between the colonists and Britain in the 1700s that led to the United States' independence.
Revolutionary War or American Revolution
This document written by Thomas Jefferson officially separated the American Colonies from Great Britain, starting the Revolutionary War.
Declaration of Independence
The word for the money, jobs, goods, and resources of a country.
Economy
The religious group that the author of Night belonged to.
The Jews or Jewish people
This man was the first President of the United States and famously warned that the United States should not make political parties.
George Washington
This movement was when Americans moved across the country taking new land away from the east.
Westward expansion
This document written by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War officially freed the slaves in the South.
Emancipation Proclamation
The word for when a country increases its voting, equality, or freedom.
Democratic
The name for the German group terrorizing the author of Night
The Nazis
This former President was known for making the U.S. more democratic by expanding voting rights, but he also forced Native Americans off their land during the Trail of Tears.
This war fought between the U.S. and another country led to the U.S. gaining Texas, Arizona, and California as new territory.
This document was the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, including individual rights like the right to free speech and to a fair trial.
Bill of Rights
The phrase for the colonists' belief that they should not pay taxes if they cannot vote.
"No taxation without representation"
This overcrowded vehicle transported the author of Night from his home to the concentration camp.
Train
This former slave and abolitionist wrote many books and gave many speeches to convince the American people that slavery must be abolished.
Frederick Douglass
This event refers to when pro-slavery and anti-slavery fought in a new Western territory, leading to 200 deaths and moving the country closer to the Civil War.
Bleeding Kansas
This law passed in 1850 forced the North to return runaway slaves back to the South.
Fugitive Slave Act
The phrase for the belief that the people must give approval to their government.
Consent of the governed
The word that means "to choose not to care", which the author of Night gave a speech against.
Indifference