English Colonies
These were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in protest to changes in taxation by the British.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This was the event in which the Sons of Liberty, some dressed and American Indians, dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This was an American Political party in the late-18th and early-19th century that advocate for a stronger national government, commercialization, and foreign trade?
What is the Federalist Party?
This was a turning point battle during the American Civil War in 1863; victory allowed Union forces to repel a Confederate invasion of the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This was a period in American history following the American Civil War; it lasted from 1865-1877 and marked a significant chapter in the history of Civil Rights in the United States.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
These were coerced laborers that did an increasingly large portion of the agriculture labor in the 13 colonies- Particularly in the american South.
What are Black African Slaves?
A public document that formally announced the reasons for the Thirteen Colonies' split from Great Britain in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The first government of the United States from 1781-1787; it was replaced in 1787 largely due to its ineffective central government.
What is The Articles of Confederation?
This was a turning point battle during the American Civil War in 1863; victory allowed Union forces to control the Mississippi River, effectively cutting the confederacy and its supply lines in half.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This was the name for amendments 13-15 of the US Constitution that were primarily intended to protect the rights of free and freedman following the American Civil War.
What are the Reconstruction Amendements?
This was the set of religious practices that determined how English people were required to worship
What are the Acts of Uniformity?
This was the opening battle of the American Revolutionary War in which Massachusetts state militia fought British regular troops that were attempting to disarm the colony.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
The effective law of the United States and its government from 1789-Present
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This was the event that caused Southern states to begin seceding as they feared Republicans would move to eliminate the institution of slavery.
What is the U.S Presidential Election of 1860?
These were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States and elsewhere within the United States until the mid-1960s.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This is the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
What is Colonialism?
This was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This was an American Political party created in the mid-19th century that gained prominence in the North and West of the United States; their initial platform centered around abolishing slavery.
What is the Republican Party
What was the guaranteed constitutional right that both Lincoln and later congress suspended during the American Civil War?
What is Habeas Corpus?
This was a landmark decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court that codified the constitutional doctrine for racial segregation laws and found that as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, African-Americans could be served separately from Whites.
What is Plessy vs Ferguson?
This was one of the first colonial representative assemblies, located in the Colony of Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This was the name of the meeting of colonial leaders who debated whether or not to stay a part of the British Empire.
What is the Continental Congress?
THis was an American political party created in the early-mid-19th century that gained prominence in South of the United States; by the mid-19th century, their primary platform included, among other things, the protection of the institution of slavery.
What is the Democratic Party?
This was a military campaign in which Union forces moved from Atlanta to Savannah harbor in 1864. The Campaign was controversial due to its use of scorched earth tactics.
What is Sherman's March?
A discriminatory practice that required evidence of the ability to read to vote; the measures effectively disenfranchised many poor whites and African Americans at the time.
What Are Literacy Tests?