Age of Exploration
Invaders that were known as brave, resourceful, ruthless and destructive.
What are Conquistadors?
Colonists who are devoted to the British.
What are loyalists?
Those who spoke out against slavery and wanted to end it.
Who are Abolitionists?
Declaration that called for educational opportunities, control of own money, and property rights for women.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This plan was extremely lenient and only required 10% of voters from the south to pledge their loyalty to the Union.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
Time period where European countries set out on a series of voyagers searching for new land and materials.
What is the Age of Exploration?
Religious movement that influenced the American Revolution.
What is the Great Awakening?
A secret network of “conductors” hid runaway slaves in farm wagons and on river boats and then moved them to destinations in the North or in Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The nation's first women’s rights convention.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This amendment defined citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment?
A brutal journey where at least 11 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean and forced into slavery.
What is the Middle Passage?
Document that was signed to end the American Revolution and declared the United States as an independent nation.
Treaty of Paris
This person escaped slavery and devoted their life to rescuing other slaves using the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Event that created a new desire to reform American Society and provide new opportunities for women to create change.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This bill required Southern states to include the denial of the right of suffrage to all former Confederate leaders, the abolition of slavery, and the repudiation of Confederate war debts
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
The Conquistadors had horses, steel weapons, and larger populations that had stronger immune systems.
What are the advantages of the Conquistadors over the Native Americans?
European movement that reached the colonies and spread the belief that all problems could be solved by human reason.
What is the Enlightenment?
Former slave who was educated and known for speaking out against slavery at public events.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
Middle-class women began hiring help for their households in order to create more time to devote to the Women’s Rights Movement.
What is one historical trend that led to real change in the 1830s?
The Union had a larger population, more manufactured goods, more railroad tracks, and better agriculture, but they did not have good military leadership.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Union?
The traffic of goods and agricultural ideas between Europe and the Americas
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The first constitution of the United States that established the country’s national government after gaining independence from Great Britain.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This person led a violent revolt in Virginia and killed about 60 people before they were stopped.
Who was Nat Turner?
Two women that led the Seneca Falls Convention and championed for women’s rights.
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
This is where the House of Representatives, by majority vote, can bring charges against the president.
What is impeachment?