Reconstruction
Laws made by the south which restricted the lives of freed slaves
What are Black Codes?
System set into place by President Andrew Jackson allowing him to elect his friends as government officials
What is the Spoils System?
Names of the two parties that would often clash with each other
What are the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans?
Two main labor sources used by the colonies
What are African American slaves and Indentured Servants?
Man who "discovered" America
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Group of white people who terrorized the Freedmen
What is the Kou Klux Klan (KKK)?
Period of economic change in America where goods began to be made in factories
What is the Market Revolution?
Name of the first 10 amendments in the constitution that were added in 1791
What is the Bill of Rights?
First permanent English colony in North America
What is Jamestown?
Religion that Europeans were trying to spread
What is Christianity?
Amendment added to the constitution that officially ended slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
Act passed by President Andrew Jackson in 1830 which moved all Indians west so there was more land for settlement.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
George Washington delivered this speech at the end of his presidency
What is George Washington's Farewell Address?
Over 90% of Native Americans died from this disease after Columbus had arrived
What is Smallpox?
First colony attempt that ultimately failed
What is Roanoke?
Similar system to slavery where a landowner lets a freedman use their land to grow crops in exchange for a large portion of the harvest
What is sharecropping?
The closing of this national bank system is attributed to causing the Economic Depression of 1837
What is Bank of the US (BUS)?
War between the US and France often given the nickname "half war"
What is the Quasi War?
Biggest cash crop in Carolina
What is rice?
Three reasons for exploration that all start with the letter G
What is god, gold, and glory?
Name given to white people in the south who wanted to help slaves through the Freedmen's Bureau
What are carpet baggers?
Event in 1832 where South Carolina refused to pay tariffs and taxes
What is the Nullification Crisis of 1832?
Name of the act that made it a crime to publish/speak negatively against the government
What is the Sedition Act?
The year that the English king created Carolina
What is 1670?
Business tactic where investors pool their money to fund something and share both profits and losses
What is a Joint Stock Company?