The Civil War
Turning point battle in Pennsylvania.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This two-word term, often used by Senator Stephen Douglas, means "letting settlers in the territories vote to determine whether to be slave states or free states."
What is "popular sovereignty?"
Thomas Jefferson tied this man, his own running mate, in the election of 1800. The House of Representatives then elected Jefferson to be president.
Who is Aaron Burr?
This state created the compromise that saved the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
What is Connecticut?
Written permission from the king to start a colony.
What is a "charter?"
Slave states that stayed loyal to the Union were known as _______.
What are border states?
According to this treaty, the US would pay Mexico $15 million for land acquired after the Mexican American War (California, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada & Colorado)
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Pennsylvania farmers were furious over a tax on alcohol.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This plan for the new U.S. government favored the small, less populous states.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This colony was founded as a safe haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
Lincoln's assassin
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Gold was discovered in California at this man's mill outside San Francisco.
Who is John Sutter? (Sutter's Mill)
President Jefferson went to war with these North African pirates.
Who are the Barbary pirates?
Germany mercenaries hired by the British to fight against the colonies.
Who are the Hessians?
The Dutch hired this English explorer to find a passage to the East Indies. Instead, he discovered a river in New York (which is named after him.)
Who is Henry Hudson?
This constitutional amendment abolished slavery forever.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Abolitionist senator Charles Sumner was almost beaten to death on the floor of the Senate by this man, who was a member of the House of Representatives.
Who is Preston Brooks?
As a result of this treaty, the U.S. would pay back any pre-Revolutionary War debts to England, and England would remove any remaining soldiers stranded on American soil.
What is Jay's Treaty?
This infamous law required colonists to give food and shelter to British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
Wealthy investors bought shares of a colony in exchange for a portion of the colony's profits.
What is a joint-stock company?
After this Union "victory", Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The Treaty of Kanagawa allowed the US to lease land from this country to build two refueling stations for the Navy.
What is Japan?
Leader of the Haitian Revolution, this man fought off the British, French & Spanish and wrote their constitution when they became an independent nation.
Who is Toussaint L'Overture?
In 1787, the territories of Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois & Michigan were settled in an orderly fashion: land was marked for purchase at low prices and school systems were established. One of the big accomplishments of the Articles of Confederation system of government.
What is the Northwest Ordinance (of 1787)?
What is the casta system? Also acceptable: caste system.