American Foundations
The voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that caused Black individuals to be packed into small sections on vessels and chained together
What is the Middle Passage?
The first 10 amendments of the US Constitution that grant citizens rights and protections from the central government
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the South's main export
What is cotton?
The person who invented the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
The name of our sweet, sweet classroom pet
A group of people who were very religious, that thought the land that they discovered was a gift from God
What are the Puritans?
The two groups of people that disagreed over the ratification of the Constitution
Federalists and Anti-Federalists
The term that defines the North's mass production and investment in machinery and factories
What is industrialization?
The author and title of the source that illuminated the injustices that many Black women experienced in the early 1800s
Who is Sojourner Truth and her "Ain't I a Woman" speech?
Ms. Johnson's favorite sports team
What are the Chicago Cubs?
The first permanent English settlement in North America that was unsuccessful due to poor soil in the marsh land, stagnant water, and Native American attacks
What is Jamestown?
The Great Compromise created this branch of government (please include the actual people/body in this branch as well)
What is the legislative branch that houses Congress (Senate and the House of Representatives)?
The first battle of the Civil War
What is the battle of Fort Sumter?
One of the leaders of the Puritans who thought that their newly discovered city was to be seen as a city upon a hill
Who is John Winthrop?
The North's primary tactic/way of fighting the Confederacy throughout the Civil War
What is the Anaconda Plan?
One of the tensions between the British and the Americans that caused Americans to house British soldiers in their own homes
What is the Quartering Act?
The idea that there are varying levels of government-- a central government and state/local governments that distinct power, as well as have shared powers
What is federalism?
The three components of the Missouri Compromise
What is the 36 30 line, Maine being a free state, and Missouri being a slave state?
The abolitionist/anti-slavery advocate who approved of violence in the fight for abolitionism
Who is David Walker?
The place where Ms. Johnson went last week for the National Social Studies Conference
What is Philadelphia, PA?
The four sections of the Declaration of Independence (if you name two, you get the 500 points)
What are the Preamble, New Theory of Government, List of Grievances, and the Declaration of Freedom?
The three branches of government and what each branch does
What is the executive branch that executes/enforces laws? What is the legislative branch that makes laws? What is the judicial branch that interprets laws?
The term that is best defined by allowing the people the right to choose-- this was the reason why Bleeding Kansas occurred
What is popular sovereignty?
The group of people who advocated for the Articles of Confederations because they thought the Constitution gave too much power to the central government
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
All of the wars that we have discussed (or remotely talked about) in class -- hint: there are four !!
What is the French & Indian War, the Revolutionary War, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War?