Founding Fathers
Known as the "Father of the Constitution"?
Who is James Madison?
Washington's Secretary of State.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The second President of the United States who was involved with the XYZ Affair.
Who is John Adams?
Religious movement that sparked all the other reform movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This act gave settlers land if they moved west and farmed it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This compromise allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This term refers to putting one's own region above the needs of the whole United States.
What is sectionalism?
President of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
President of the Southern states during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
President after Lincoln who clashed with Congress during Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This Founding Father wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Washington set this important example by only serving two terms.
What is a precedent?
The third President who made the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Former slave and powerful speaker who became a leader in the abolitionist movement.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This was the idea that the U.S. was meant to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This law required people to return escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This time got its name from the daily violence between pro-slavery and anti-people.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This President issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Southern states that left the Union were called the ________.
What was the Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy?
This amendment gave citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Northern politicians who came to the South during Reconstruction.
Who are carpetbaggers?
He was the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
Washington warned against these two things in his Farewell Address: political parties and ___________.
What are foreign alliances?
This war with Britain began in 1812.
What is the War of 1812?
This woman helped lead the women’s rights movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This expedition explored the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that fueled anti-slavery sentiment.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This territory was annexed by the U.S. in 1845, leading to tension with Mexico.
What is Texas?
The bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This was the first battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Southern Republicans who supported Reconstruction.
Who are scalawags?
This Founding Father was also the first Secretary of the Treasury.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This rebellion was caused by a tax on whiskey during Washington’s presidency.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This doctrine warned Europe not to interfere in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Movement to end slavery in the United States.
What is abolition?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1854 act let settlers vote on slavery in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The war between the U.S. and Mexico resulted in this land acquisition.
What is the Mexican Cession?
Lincoln gave this speech after a major Union victory in 1863.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This general led the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Agency that helped former slaves with food, education, and jobs.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Secret society that used violence to intimidate African Americans and prevent them from voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This man defended British soldiers in the Boston Massacre trial and later became the second U.S. President.
Who is John Adams?
Washington’s Secretary of the Treasury who created a national financial plan.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The case Marbury v. Madison established this important power.
What is judicial review?
This former slave helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The forced march of Native Americans to new lands was called the _______.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The Supreme Court case that ruled enslaved people were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This compromise in 1850 allowed California to enter as a free state and included a stricter fugitive slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
General who led the Union to victory and later became President.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This was the final battle of the Civil War, where Lee surrendered to Grant?
What is Appomattox Court House?
Laws in the South that restricted African Americans’ rights after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
Laws passed to separate African Americans and whites in public spaces.
What are Jim Crow laws?