The Revolution
In 1773, American colonists protested by dumping 342 chests of products from the British East India Company into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This is the term for changes that are made to the Constitution.
What are Amendments?
This allowed any African American to be falsely accused of being a runaway slave and be captured.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
In 1849, this valuable resource drove a large group of people called the Forty Niners to California.
What is gold?
This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
He was placed in command of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress.
Who is George Washington?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution, which guarantee fundamental individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This court case decided that the Federal Government could not prohibit slavery in the territories and African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Stanford?
In 1803, the U.S. bought land from Napoleon of France, more than doubling the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A collection of several states that seceded from the union in 1861.
What are the Confederate States of America?
This important document written by Thomas Paine helped persuade many people that the time had come to declare independence.
What is Common Sense?
This keeps one branch of the government from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
As chief justice, he helped make the Supreme Court into a powerful, independent branch of the Federal Government.
Who is John Marshall?
Led the Corps of Discovery on an expedition into Louisiana Territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
Network of secret routes and safe houses that helped thousands escape slavery.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This battle was a turning point in the Revolutionary war and convinced France to help join the war effort.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Passed in 1865, this amendment banned slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
In 1803, this court case established Judicial Review, giving the Supreme Court the power to declare laws passed by Congress as unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The forced westward migration that killed thousands of Cherokee people.
What is the Trial of Tears?
The abolitionist that led a siege of the Federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
In 1783, the British Crown formally recognized American independence and ceded most of its territory east of the Mississippi River once this treaty was signed.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
A collection of essays that explained the new framework of government created by the Constitution.
What is the Federalist?
Signed into law by President Washington in 1789, this created the federal court system known as the Supreme Court.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789?
The belief that God had bestowed the entire continent to the Americans.
What is manifest destiny?
This novel had a profound effect toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?