Creating a Nation
The ___________ Massacre resulted in 5 American colonists losing their lives as a result of British troops firing upon them.
Boston
This belief in the 19th-century was used in the United States by American settlers to justify their expansion into Native American territories in the Western part of the country.
Manifest Destiny
When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln’s main goal?
Preserve the Union
Who was president after Lincoln's Assassination?
Hint: Him and Congress did not get along well
Andrew Johnson
Name one individual/family who became rich during the Gilded Age.
Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, etc.
What cash crop made the Jamestown colony rich?
Tobacco
This was the forced relocation of Natives of the Southeast region of the United States during the 1830s to the so-called "Indian Territory" west of the Mississippi River.
Trail of Tears
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed slaves in the southern rebellious states.
What Agricultural process was common in the South after Reconstruction often involving cyclical debt of African Americans
Sharecropping
What amendment allowed women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
What was the outcome of the Seven Years' War on the American colonies?
Britain won the war, but was in a ton of debt. They raised taxes on the American colonies to help pay off that debt
Who gained hero status after he and his men defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812? He would later use this status to become president.
Andrew Jackson
“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” This quote is from what famous speech?
Gettysburg Address
What amendment granted all people equal protection under the laws?
14th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson offically legalized what in the United States?
Segregation
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was held in what city?
Philadelphia
Although they disappeared quickly, this political party held tremendous power in the government in early American history.
The Federalists
1861
What institution was created to help African Americans in the South adjust to life after slavery? It only lasted from 1865-1872.
Freedmen's Bureau
China
What was the last battle of the American Revolution?
The siege of Yorktown
The Massacre at Bad Axe was a conflict between Natives (Sauk and Fox) and the US Army a part of what war?
Black Hawk War
This Union General led a fiery and destructive "march to the Sea" that aimed at breaking Southern morale.
William Tecumseh Sherman
What election officially ended Reconstruction?
The Election of 1876
This school was the first of many Native American schools created to assimilate Natives into American culture.
Carlisle Boarding School