Reconstruction
The period that followed the Civil War and focused on rebuilding the South and reintegrating former COnfederate states.
What is reconstruction?
This term refers to the period in U.S. history before the Civil War, roughly from the early 1800's to 1861.
What is Antebellum America?
This document, ratified in 1788 and put into effect in 1789, created the framework for the U.S. government in the 1790's.
What is the U.S. constitution?
Founded in 1607, this was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
These people were the first inhabitants of North America, arriving thousands of years before Europeans.
Who are Native Americans?
These three amendments ended slavery, granted citizenship, and protected voting rights for freedmen.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
This economic system dominated the Southern states and relied heavily on enslaved labor.
What is the plantation system?
He was the first president of the U.S., serving throughout most of the 1790's.
Who is George Washington?
This cash crop helped make Virginia economically successful during the colonial period.
What is tobacco?
This land bridge connected Asia and North America during the Ice Age, allowing early migration.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
This group was formed in the South to intimidate and prevent African Americans from exercising their new rights.
What is the KKK?
This invention by Eli Whitney increased the demand for enslaved labor by making cotton processing faster.
What is the cotton gin?
These two political parties first emerged in the 1790's, led by Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.
What are the Federalists and the Democrat-Republicans?
This 1620 agreement established self-government for the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This advanced civilization built large cities like Tenochtitlan in what is now Mexico.
This government agency provided food, housing, education, and medical care to formerly enslaved people?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This movement worked to end slavery and included figures like William Lloyd Garrison and Fredrick Douglas.
What is the abolishionist movement?
This 1794 uprising challenged a federal tax on whiskey and tested the power of the new government.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This colonial policy allowed the colonies to largely govern themselves due to limited British enforcement.
What is salutary neglect?
This 1492 voyage marked Christopher Columbus's first arrival in the Americas.
What is the voyage of 1492?
These laws were passed in Southern states to restrict the freedoms of Africain Americans after the Civil War.
What are the black codes?
This series of religious revivals inspired reform movements such as women's rights, abolition, and temperance.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
These controversial laws passed in 1798 limited free speech and targeted immigrants.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This conflict between Britain and France in North America began in 1754 and ended in the colonial era.
These European nations were the first to explore and claim parts of the Americas before 1607.
Who are Spain, France, and England?