Presidents
Thomas Jefferson's most famous act as President was purchasing this territory from the French.
What is Louisiana?
This Amendment guarantees freedom of assembly, speech, press, religion.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This 1820 law created a line that divided the country between free territory and slave territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The annexation of this state in 1845 led to conflict with Mexico and eventually the Mexican-American War.
What is Texas?
This 1852 book by Harriet Beecher Stowe turned Northern opinion against slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This president passed the Indian Removal Act and pushed for all white men to receive the write to vote.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This legislative body has exactly two representatives from each state and is focused on the foreign policy of the United States.
What is the Senate?
As part of the Compromise of 1850 this controversial Act forced Northerns to have to return runaway slaves to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This second war between the United States & Great Britain led to a boom in U.S manufacturing.
What is the War of 1812?
This late 1600s rebellion by black and white indentured servants caused the Virginia colony to create laws around racial slavery.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Abraham Lincoln was the first president as part of this political party, which was founded in 1854.
What is the Republican Party?
This Amendment ended slavery in the United States and was passed by the Senate in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Name two acts/laws passed by the British that angered American colonists in the lead up to the Revolutionary War.
Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Tea Act, Townsend Acts, Proclamation Line of 1863, Quartering Act
This 1831 revolt was the deadliest revolt by enslaved persons in U.S. history, it is named after the revolt's leader.
What is Nat Turner's Revolt/Rebellion?
This woman opposed the strict gender roles of Puritan society by preaching to men and women, she was ultimately banished from the colony.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This president was a believer in Manifest Destiny & led the United States go to war with Mexico
Who is James K. Polk?
This was the first government the United States created. It ultimately failed because of it's inability to tax or raise an army.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was built around this idea that states can vote on whether or not they wish to have slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Also known as the Seven Years War, this conflict was focused in North America in the early 1700s and led the groundwork for the American Revolution.
What is the French & Indian War?
This town in Massachusetts was created in the 1820s to focus on textile manufacturing and housed many of the female workers.
What is Lowell?
William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore are all former presidents from this mostly Northern political party which lasted from 1833 to 1856 & famously did not have a view on slavery.
What is the Whig Party?
This early political group was founded to oppose ratification of the United State's Constitution and supported adoption of the Bill of Rights.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
During the Civil War Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all enslaved persons in the Confederacy, however slavery was still allowed in the Union in these 5 border states. (Name at least 3 of them)
What are Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia?
This Union General led a famous and very destructive "March to the Sea" inside of Georgia at the end of the Civil War.
Who is General Sherman?
William Lloyd Garrison, one of the most famous Abolitionists of the 19th Century, owned this newspaper to advance the cause of Abolition. (Fredrick Douglas was a writer for it)
What is the Liberator?