US History 1
Group of department heads who advise the president
What is a cabinet?
The first President of the United States
Who is George Washington?
An agrarian economy
What kind of economy did the antebellum South have?
The Lenape and the Mohicans
What are two Native tribes that occupied what is now Newburgh?
Number of original British colonies in what is now the US
What is 13?
The branch of government that interprets the laws
What is the judicial branch?
George Washington was general in this war.
What is the Revolutionary War?
Where Columbus thought he was when he landed in the Americas
What is India?
Jamestown, Virginia is 1607
What was the first British colony in what is now the US?
1619
What year were the first Africans brought to the US as slaves?
The belief that God wanted the pioneers to expand into the West.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A strong central government
What did the Federalists support?
The opposing sides in the American Revolution
Who were the Patriots and British Loyalists?
This document was made to cut ties between the 13 colonies and Great Britain
What is The Declaration of Independence?
The Anti-Federalists were against this.
A strong central government
Based on the Constitution, who runs the government
What are the people?
July 4th, 1776
When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
What the division of power between the federal government and the states is called
What is Federalism?
The introduction to the Constitution
What is the Preamble?
This amendment guarantees the right to protest
What is the First Amendment?
This branch is responsible for making laws
What is the legislative branch?
The period immediately following the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
This Amendment granted formerly enslaved people equal protection under the law
What is the 14th Amendment?
This is how long a Supreme Court Justice's term is
What is life?
Stamps and tea
What are items the British taxed in the colonies that eventually led to the American Revolution?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
The practice of soldiers occupying civilians' homes
What is quartering?
The main issue that fractured the country in the 1850s and 1860s.
What is slavery?
What the 11 states that seceded from the Union called themselves
What is the Confederacy?
These states were part of the Union but allowed slavery
This Amendment gave Black men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
During Reconstruction this government department helped ex-slaves transition to freedom
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
An amendment
What is a change made to the US Constitution called?
A war that occurs within the borders of a single nation.
What is a civil war?
The most valuable crop in the antebellum South
What is cotton?
He was elected President in 1861
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The war that was fought over slavery
What is the Civil War?
This Amendment ended slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
Early explorers were searching for these two goods
What are gold and spices?
During the Civil War, this side had more railroads
What is the Union?