Early Stages
What was land?
This event had shots fired on colonist protesting against taxes without representations
What was the Boston Masscre?
George Washington opposed the idea of these in Early America
What are political parties?
This is the main reason for the rapid expansion of slavery in the South.
What is the invention of the Cotton Gin?
Expected citizens in the North to help with apprehending runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
Led a rebellion against the Virginia government because he wanted to access land west of Virginia.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
These imposed acts closed Boston harbor and punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party
What is the Intolerable Acts?
The bloodiest single day of the American Revolution happened here
Bunker Hill
According to this proclamation, the United States would defend any country in the Western Hemisphere, from European interference.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Advantages of the Union (include at least 2 reasons)
What are (1) strong political leadership, (2) developed industrial base, (3) more railroads, and (4)larger population?
This person assassinated President Lincoln during a performance of "Our American Cousin".
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The reason why most tribes fought with the French instead of the British
What is British wanted to colonize the lands, while the French wanted trade partners?
Where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at
Lexington and Concord
After the American Revolutionary War, women received more education opportunities, but did not gain this
What is the right to vote?
President Andrew Jackson refused the honor the decision of the Supreme Court, which resulted in the forceful removal of the Cherokee Nation
What is the "Trail of Tears"?
This act allowed territories to decide the slavery question by popular sovereignty and led to violence in Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This is the town that General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant.
What was Appomattox?
This proclamation declared that all land west of the Appalachians was Indian Territory.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1764?
This was considered the final battle of the American Revolutionary War, after General Cornwallis retreat was blocked by the French fleet in Chesapeake Bay
What is the Battle of Yorktown
This was the first real test of the United States Constitution and a stronger central government.
What is Whiskey's Rebellion?
This was legislation that ensured that there would maintain a balance of power between slave and free states
What is the Missouri Compromise?
These slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
What are slaves in “territories in rebellion”?
This general led the “March to the Sea”, demonstrating "total war" tactics through Georgia.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This was the major outcome of Bacon's Rebellion
What is the start of the African slave trade?
Reasons for colonists to declare independence from England (Provide (2) two responses)
What are (1)get support from France, (2)colonies could act as an independent nation, (3)captured soldiers would recieve better treatment, (4)make a statement about rights, and (5)freedom from British "tyranny"?
Differences between Federalist and Anti-Federalist
The acquisition of the Louisiana Purchase from the French led to the a secret expedition led by Lewis and Clark, know as this.
What is the Corps of Discovery?
The two important decisions made by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case.
This was the intention of the 13th Amendment.
What is to abolish slavery?