Colonies and Revolution
This 1765 British tax required colonists to buy stamped paper for legal documents and other printed materials and helped spark colonial protests.
Stamp Act
What is the name of the document, adopted in 1787, that established the three branches of the U.S. national government?
US Constitution
Who became a national hero after the Battle of New Orleans and later served as the seventh U.S. president?
Andrew Jackson
What was the name of the 1850 federal law that required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers?
Fugitive Slave Act
What is the name of the period from 1865 to 1877 focused on rebuilding the South and integrating formerly enslaved people into the nation?
Reconstruction
Name the 1773 event where colonists disguised as Natives dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxation.
Boston Tea Party
Under the Articles of Confederation, what was the only branch at the national level?
Legislative
What is the name given to the forced removal of Native American tribes, including the Cherokee, from lands east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river?
Trail of Tears
What 1854 law allowed settlers in new territories to vote to decide whether slavery would be allowed?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What document, written in 1776, declared the American colonies independent from Great Britain?
Declaration of Independence
This pamphlet, published in 1776 by an English-born writer, argued strongly for independence and persuaded many colonists to support the Revolution.
Common Sense
What term describes the division of powers between the national government and the state governments?
Federalism
What phrase described the 19th-century belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent?
Manifest Destiny
Name the battle fought in 1863 that is often considered the turning point of the Civil War and state which side won it.
Vicksburg; the Union
What 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States by acquiring territory from France?
Louisiana Purchase
Describe the Proclamation of 1763:
British law issued on October 7, 1763, that prohibited American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution collectively called?
Bill of Rights
Name one major effect of the completion of the Erie Canal on transportation or trade (one clear effect).
Faster and easier transportation of people and goods, cheaper transportation of people/goods
Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and in what year was it issued?
Abraham Lincoln; 1863
Which compromise admitted California as a free state and included a stronger Fugitive Slave Law as part of its terms?
Compromise of 1850
What economic policy required colonies to supply raw materials to the mother country and serve as markets for finished goods?
Mercantilism
Name the two compromises at the Constitutional Convention that resolved disputes over representation and slavery: one that established a bicameral legislature and one that counted enslaved people partially for representation.
Great Compromise and 3/5ths Compromise
What term describes the period of economic change in the early 1800s marked by increased factories, improved transportation, and new communication methods?
Industrial Revolution
Give one specific economic difference between the North and the South before the Civil War
manufacturing vs agriculture; pro tariff vs pro free trade, *Other teacher approved answers*
Who led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859 in an attempt to start a slave uprising?
John Brown