Reconstruction
This 1865 amendment to the Constitution formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
This invention by Eli Withney in 1793 revolutionized the Antebellum economy.
What is the Cotton Gin?
Ratified in 1791, these first ten amendments to the constitution were added to protect individual liberties and satisfy anti-federalist concerns.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Established in 1607,this Virginia settlement was the first permanent English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This is the General name for the diverse group of people who inhabited North and South America for thousands of years before European arrival
Who are Native Americans?
He became the 17th U.S. President after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
This 1820 agreement attempted to maintain the balance of power between slave and free states by admitting one state as a slave and another as free.
What is the Missouri Compromise
In 1794, George Washington led federal troops into Pennsylvania to suppress this uprising caused by a tax on a popular distilled spirit.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This 1602 document was the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This agricultural staple allowed native population to transition from nomadic lifestyle to settled
What is Maize?
This federal agency was established in 1865 to provide food, medical care, and schools to former slaves in the south.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This informal network of secret routes and safe houses helped enslaved people escape to reach free states or Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
These four controversial 1798 laws limited the rights of immigrants and penalized "scandalous" speech against the government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This religious group, led by William Penn, founded Pennsylvania as a "holy Experiment" based on pacifism and religious tolerance.
Under this Spanish labor system, the crown "commended" indigenous people to colonist who promised to christianize them in exchange for forced labor.
What is the Encomienda System?
This 1867 legislation divided the former confederate states into five military districts under the control of Northern generals.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867?
This 1854 act repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing "popular sovereignty" to determine the status of slavery in new territories
This 1791 solution written by Jefferson and Madison, argued that states had the right to "nullify" federal laws they deemed unconstitutional.
What are the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?
This series of trade laws passed by the British Parliament , that required that most colonial goods be shipped on English vessels and pass through English ports.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This vast global transfer of plants, animal, culture and diseases fundamentally reshaped the environments of both the old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This 1857 Supreme Court ruling, which claimed Black American had "no right which the white man was bound to respect" , which lead to Congress drafting the 14th Amendment specifically to establish birthright citizenship.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
This 1846 proposal , which never became a law, sought to ban slavery in any territory acquired from the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This 1797 diplomatic scandal involved French agents demanding bribes from the U.S. envoys, leading to the undeclared "Quasi- war" at sea.
What is the XYZ Affair?
This final colonial war between Britain and France ended with British dominance in North America.
What is the French and Indian War?
This 1599 conflict between the Spanish and the Pueblo people in present day New Mexico
What is the Acoma Pueblo Massacre?