Reconstruction
The time period wanting to rebuild the United States.
What is Reconstruction Era?
A society where slaveholders hold dominant political power.. and were plantation owners.
What is Slavocracy?
The first president.
What is George Washington?
The first English settlement.
What is Jamestown?
The navigator who, made four transatlantic voyages starting and opened the door for European exploration and colonization.
Who is Christopher Coloumbus?
A new labor system that came around after slavery was abolished. This kept poor African Americans in a never ending cycle of debt to their landowners.
What is Sharecropping?
The law that temporarily settled the debate over slavery's expansion by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1820?
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution
A major religious revival in the American colonies that led to the understanding of religion(god) and the world around them.
What is The Great Awakening?
A group of English settlers who vanished from Roanoke Island.
The Lost Roanoke Colony.
This amendment abolished slavery and was eventually ratified.
What is The 13th Amendment?
The transformation in the U.S. economy, shifting from local subsistence farming/crafts to more national and specialized resources such as railroads, canals, and telegraphs.
What is the Market Revolution?
The movement to end slavery and the slave trade for good.
What is Abolitionism?
The act that Mandated all European goods going to the colonies pass through England first.
What is The Staple Act?
The belief in the benefits of profitable trading with other countries.
What is Merchantilism?
Multiple laws passed after the Civil War that severely restricted newly freed African Americans.
What is Black Codes?
A book published by Harriet Beecher Stowe which shed light on the inhumane experiences slaves went through.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"
A violent tax protest by farmers in western Pennsylvania against an excise tax on whiskey.
What is The Whiskey Rebellion?
The war that was going to last seven years.
What is the French and Indian War?
Who discovered the Mississipi River?
What is Hernando de Soto?
A U.S. government agency created in 1865 that provided aid to formerly enslaved African Americans and poor white transition comfortably after the events of the Civil War.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
The principle that a government's power comes from the people.
These two acts increased residency for citizenship, allowed presidential deportation of "dangerous" aliens, and criminalized criticism of the government or President Adams.
What is The Alien and Sedition Acts?
A gathering in Albany that was made to develop a treaty with Native Americans and plan the defense of the colonies against France.
What is the Albany Congress?
A Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first official European expedition.
What is Ponce de León?