1492-1789
This religious group, which founded Pennsylvania, were amongst the first to denounce slavery.
Quakers
This document began the process of freeing enslaved people and shifted the meaning of the Civil War.
Emancipation Proclamation
This amendment to the Constitution guarantees equal protection under the law, applied the Bill of Rights to state governments, and gave citizenship to any person born on American soil.
14th Amendment
This notorious law forbid anyone from China from entering the United States for over 60 years. It also forbid Chinese immigrants from obtaining citizenship.
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Women's Suffrage Movement met its goal when which amendment was added to the Constitution, finally giving women across the country the right to vote.
19th Amendment
This "rallying cry" of the Revolutionary War showed the colonists' anger at Britain's policies after the French & Indian War.
"No Taxation Without Representation"
This abolitionist led a failed revolt in an attempt to free enslaved peoples and spark a nationwide slave uprising. His actions were viewed very differently in different parts of the country.
John Brown
This amendment to the Constitution guaranteed voting rights for African American men. (Many would still be denied access all the way until the 1965 Voting Rights Act).
15th Amendment
The Sioux Wars and the Homestead Act are both examples of the United States working to enact this idea, which claims that the United States has a God-given right to territorial expansion.
Manifest Destiny
This African American artistic movement in the 1920s and 1930s resulted from the Great Migration.
The Harlem Renaissance
This amendment to the Constitution guarantees that law enforcement cannot illegally search or take your belongings.
4th Amendment
This event, held in upstate New York in 1848, kickstarted the movement for women's rights in the United States.
The Seneca Falls Convention
After slavery ended, many African Americans were forced into this system, which many called "slavery with a paycheck."
Sharecropping
The United States defeated Emiliano Aguinaldo and his followers in this imperialist conflict that lasted from 1899-1902.
Philippine-American War
African Americans were denied government-backed mortgages during the New Deal (and afterwards) due to what discriminatory process?
Redlining
This is the name of America's first system of government, which lasted from 1781-1789.
Articles of Confederation
The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to enter the Union as a free state. But it also allowed Congress to pass which notorious law?
The Fugitive Slave Act
Because of a loophole in the 13th Amendment, many African Americans after the Civil War were made to work in prisons because of what system?
Convict leasing
During the Gilded Age, labor unions formed so that workers could negotiate together for better working conditions. This power is known as...
Collective bargaining
This New Deal program employed millions of Americans in government-backed infrastructure projects.
Works Progress Administration
In an early example of pan-Indianism, what Native American leader led an uprising against the British in the Ohio River Valley in the 1750s?
Pontiac
This 1857 Supreme Court case claimed that African Americans had no civil rights that white people had to respect, and said that the government could not limit the expansion of slavery.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
This military order issued at the end of the Civil War promised freedmen land of their own. Andrew Johnson ended up returning all Confederate land to its former owners.
Special Field Order 15
This newspaper publisher fabricated evidence in order to force the United States into a war against Spain in 1898.
William Randolph Hearst
This law made it easier for the United States to send weapons and aid to the Allies in the early years of World War II.
Lend-Lease Act