Reconstruction
The 13th Amendment ended this
What is slavery?
First battle of the Civil War
Invention that helped produce cotton/expand slavery
What was the cotton gin?
The idea that, for a nation to increase it's wealth and power, they could obtain as much gold and silver as possible and establish a favorable balance of trade
What was mercantilism?
The group that lived in America before the Spanish or Europeans
Who were the Pueblo Indians?
The president during this time period
Who was Andrew Johnson?
America's God given right to spread freedom, democracy, and American culture across North America
What was Manifest Destiny?
Law that allowed slave owners to recapture runaway slaves who escaped to different regions or states
What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
The Pueblo Revolt happened in this month/year
When was August 1680?
Another name for corn that Native Americans grew
What is maize?
Federal agency created to help freedmen transition from slavery to freedom
What was The Freedmen's Bureau?
Union general who later became President of the United States
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Western Pennsylvanian whiskey producer's response to the whiskey tax in 1794
This man famously said, "We shall be as a City Upon a Hill; the eyes of all people in the world are upon us."
Who was John Winthrop?
Christopher Columbus "discovered" America in this year
Laws that restricted freedmen's rights
What were Black Codes?
General of the Confederate army
Who was Robert E. Lee?
The sequel to a movement from the 1700s that revived religion
What was The Second Great Awakening?
The Pilgrims founded this colony in 1620
What was The Plymouth Colony?
The transfer of plants, animals, culture, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th - 16th centuries
The acts that divided the South into 5 military districts
What were The Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
The decade that the Republican party was founded in
When was the 1850's?
The year that George Washington retired
When was 1797?
Act in 1649 that allowed citizens of Maryland the freedom of religion
What was the Act for Religious Tolerance
The years that the French attempted to colonize North America
When were the 1540's and 1560's?