Civil War
Where was the last Confederate stronghold city on the Mississippi River that fell to Union General Ulysses S. Grant after a siege of two months?
Vicksburg
What type of democracy sought a stronger executive branch and a weaker Congress, it also sought to broaden public participation in government? Hint: This president named it after himself.
Jacksonian Democracy
Colonial group formed to show their dislike of British Rule; damaged British property, including government offices and homes of the wealthy British supporters; burned the British King in effigy
Sons & Daughters of Liberty
A group of former Confederate officers formed the first of this infamous organization, which terrorized the freedmen and sought to restore white supremacy.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
True or false? the French won the Seven Years War but didn't want all of Canada?
False.
Who was the best known commander of the Northern troops during the Civil War, eventually receiving the surrender of the Southern troops?
Ulysses S. Grant
Which court case stated that slaves were not citizens, but personal property and therefore had no right to go to court to win their freedom?
Dred Scott Decision
Name of pamphlet where Thomas Paine called for the colonists to declare independence from Great Britain
Common Sense
What was passed by many of the Southern states after the Civil War to ensure a stable and subservient labor force under white control?
Black Codes
How did the Seven Years War end?
The Treaty of Paris 1763
How did the Civil War begin?
The Southerners attacked the Union at Fort Sumter in SC
What executive order was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that freed slaves in the Confederate states and gave the war a moral cause for the North?
Emancipation Proclamation
Which document warned European Nations to not settle or colonize in the western hemisphere? ("Don't settle; don't meddle").
Monroe Doctrine
Southern and border states passed segregation laws that required separate but equal facilities for African Americans. These were known as
Jim Crow Laws
Who was the English philosopher who wrote about "natural rights" that influenced many of America's Founding Fathers?
John Locke
This person was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis
What idea stated that it was America's God given right to expand westward?
Manifest Destiny
What treaty ended the American Revolution granting America its independence from the British?
Treaty of Paris of 1783
This is a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land with a portion of the crop raised on that land
What is sharecropping
law Britain passed to attempt to stop the colonists from expanding west of the Appalachian mountains after the French & Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
What was the speech called that Lincoln gave after the Civil War?
Lincoln gave a speech called the Gettysburg Address and he gave it to dedicate a cemetery for the Union soldiers who died in the Battle of Gettysburg.
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Which event started because of the differences in opinion between the Northern and Southern states about states' rights; slavery; and the economy?
Civil War
This man assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth
Which country ruled the 13 colonies?
England