Reconstruction
Citizenship for African Americans
What is the 14th Amendment?
This economic system mostly relied on slavery in the south
What is plantation agriculture?
This document became the supreme law of the land in 1789
What is the Constitution?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America
What is Jamestown?
These people lived in North America before European arrival
Who are Native Americans?
Laws that restricted freemen's rights and forced them to work
What is Black Codes?
This invention increased the production of cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
This political party was led by Thomas Jefferson
What is the Democratic Republican Party?
This Colony was founded by Puritans seeking religious freedom
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
This land bridge allowed people to migrate to North America during the Ice Age
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
Created to help free slaves to gain an education
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
This was a law that required escaped slaves to go back to their owners
What are Fugitive Slave Laws?
These first ten amendments protect individual rights
What is the Bill of Rights?
This system allowed colonies to govern themselves
What is self government?
The Native American group lived in the Eastern Woodlands
Who are the Iroquois?
Federal troops enforced Reconstruction
What is Military Reconstruction?
This abolitionist published the Liberator
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This document established self rule in Plymouth Colony
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This civilization built large cities such as Tenochtitlan
Who are the Aztecs?
This amendment guaranteed voting rights regardless of race
What is the 15th Amendment?
In 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were not citizens
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
War that never happened
What was the Quasi War?
The war where France and England were fighting for control of North America
What is the French and Indian War?
This crop was widely grown by Native Americans and helped sustain early societies
What is corn?