Amendments and Laws
The 13th Amendment established
What is the abolishment of slavery
Which term describes the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand from coast to coast?
What is Manifest Destiny
What was the event in which Massachusetts farmers rebelled against high taxes and debt, showing the weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
What is Shay’s Rebellion?
What law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers, angering Northern abolitionists?
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
What was the Union’s strategy to blockade Southern ports, divide the Confederacy, and take control of the Mississippi River?
What is the Anaconda Plan?
What is the 14th Amendment?
What is equal protection and birthright citizenship
What innovation in the early 1800s greatly increased cotton production in the South?
What is the cotton gin?
What was the British practice of forcing American sailors into military service, helping spark the War of 1812?
What is impressment?
What 1846 proposal aimed to ban slavery in territory won from the Mexican-American War?
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
What speech, given by Abraham Lincoln, honored fallen soldiers and redefined the purpose of the Civil War?
What is the Gettysburg Address?
What is the 15th Amendment?
What is the right to vote for ALL men
Which compromise attempted to maintain the balance of free and slave states by admitting California as a free state?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What was the trade system that exchanged enslaved people, raw materials, and manufactured goods between Africa, Europe, and the Americas?
What is the Triangle Trade?
What restrictive laws were passed by Southern states after the Civil War to limit African American freedom?
What are the Black Codes?
What was the Union’s military strategy of destroying Southern infrastructure and morale?
What is total war?
What are powers that the federal government has but are not explicitly stated in the Constitution?
What are implied powers?
What law, signed by Jackson, led to the forced removal of Native American tribes to lands west of the Mississippi?
What is the Indian Removal Act?
What were two major conflicts between Britain and the U.S. before 1815?
What are the American Revolution and the War of 1812?
Who was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is "Enslaved people from states that seceded from the Union"?
This A Native American tribe that was forcibly removed from their land through the Trail of Tears.
Who are the Cherokee Native Americans?
What 1823 policy warned European nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What economic plan, created by Henry Clay, focused on internal improvements, a national bank, and protective tariffs?
What is the American System?
What Enlightenment thinker inspired the ideas of inalienable rights?
Who is John Locke?
What was the ruling in the Dred Scott case?
What is "A slave was not a citizen but rather the property of an owner"?
This U.S. government agency was created after the Civil War to assist freed slaves with education, employment, and legal rights.
What is the Freedman's Buearu?