Antebellum America
The belief that Americans were destined to expand out to the Western lands, "from sea to shining sea"
What is Manifest Destiny?
The region of America in the 1800's that developed large cities, many immigrants, and industry and manufacturing.
What is the North?
This Founding Father was the first Secretary of Treasury in the United States, he wrote 51 essays for The Federalist Papers
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
To protest the Tea Act, colonists dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor, marking this event
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland make up what region of colonies?
What are Southern Colonies?
The amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
The idea of placing the interests of your region ahead of the nation as a whole
What is sectionalism?
This slave lead the most brutal slave rebellion in United States history, attracting up to 75 slaves and killing 60 whites.
Who is Nat Turner?
This man was the 3rd President of the United States, as a member of the Democratic-Republican party. He was the primary author of The Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware make up which region of colonies?
What are Middle Colonies?
This invention transformed New York into America's commercial capital, and opened the midwest to settlement
What is the Erie Canal
The famous battlecry of the Texians during the Battle at the Alamo
What is "Remember the Alamo"?
The king of England at the time of the American Revolution
Who is King George III?
This phrase represented the anger among the colonists, after taxes were passed by the British without their consent
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island make up which region of colonies?
What are New England Colonies?
This sad event in U.S History forced Native Americans out of their homes in Georgia, and settled them 800 miles West in Oklahoma
What is the Trail of Tears/Indian Removal Act?
The country name created by the South after the ceded from the Union
What is the Confederate States of America?
The 7th President of the United States; the president who allowed the Indian Removal Act
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This man rode on the back of a horse through the town, alerting the colonists "The Red Coats are coming! The Red Coats are coming?"
Who is Paul Revere?
This became the first cash-crop in the American south
What is tobacco?
The mayor of New York who approved of the Erie Canal
Who is DeWitt Clinton?
The agreement to allow California to enter the Union as a free state, and Texas to enter as a slave state
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The author of the pamphlets titled Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine?
The event in Boston when British soldiers fired into a crowd, killing colonists; It was not as bloody as the papers made it out to be.
What is the Boston Massacre?
What was the first permanent English colony in "The New World"?
What is Jamestown Colony?