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200
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are often referred to by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
This name was given to the Union's overall strategy for defeating the Confederacy in the American Civil War, developed by General Winfield Scott.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
200
This man led the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, arguably just his second-most famous contribution to U.S. history.
Who was George Washington?
200
A form of government in which citizens choose their representative leaders by democratic vote is given this name.
What is a republic?
200
This first Secretary of the Treasury promoted a U.S. debt program and the establishment of a national bank in order to encourage the U.S. to transition from agrarianism to industrialization.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
200
This term was used to describe the belief that the U.S. was foreordained to expand its territory from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What was Manifest Destiny?
400
This 1865 amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed slavery throughout the United States and its territories.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
400
This was the name given to the government of the South when they broke away from the Union in an attempt to form their own nation.
What was the Confederate States of America?
400
This graduate of West Point and commander of the Confederate forces during the Civil War is widely considered one of history's most talented generals.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
400
This federal agency was created to help freed African Americans and poor white farmers in the South after the Civil War.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
This military tactic, in which a navy prevents vessels from entering or leaving its enemy's ports, is intended to cut off trade and supplies.
What is a blockade?
400
Members of a Christian religious movement devoted to peaceful principles who are pacifists and refuse to bear arms are known by this name.
Who are Quakers?
600
This constitutional amendment guarantees voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
600
This was the capitol city of the Confederacy throughout most of the American Civil War.
What is Richmond?
600
The "March to the Sea" that devastated the Confederate state of Georgia was led by this Union general and right-hand man to Ulysses S. Grant.
Who was William Tecumseh Sherman?
600
A person who moved from the North to the South to run for public office during the Reconstruction era was known by this disparaging nickname.
What was a carpetbagger?
600
This term is often used to describe an official ban or restriction on trade to another nation.
What is an embargo?
600
The belief that the interests of one's own country should be placed ahead of regional concerns or the interests of other countries is referred to by this name.
What is nationalism?
800
This Constitutional right guarantees that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed.
What is habeas corpus?
800
The American Civil War began when the South attacked this Union military installation in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
800
This Confederate general was given his nickname for rallying his troops to victory in the First Battle of Bull Run.
Who was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
800
These congressmen advocated full citizenship rights for African Americans as well as a harsh Reconstruction policy towards the South.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
800
This term refers to the social and economic reorganization that took place as machines replaced hand tools and large scale factory production expanded after the Embargo Act of 1809.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
800
This term describes the formal withdrawal from a membership in a group or an organization, as the South attempted to do from the United States.
What is secession?
1000
The case of Marbury v. Madison established this power of the Supreme Court, which enables it to decide whether the acts of Congress or the president are constitutional.
What is judicial review?
1000
This 1862 law allowed African American soldiers to serve in the Union military.
What was the Militia Act?
1000
This American military officer and war hero in the War of 1812 went on to serve as the seventh President of the United States.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
1000
This original governmental framework for the United States was replaced by the Constitution because the it was too weak to support an effective central government.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
1000
This British policy in the early 1700s allowed the American colonies virtual self-rule as long as Britain was gaining economically.
What was salutary neglect?
1000
This is the name given to a person who favors increasing the territory or influence of a country.
What is an expansionist?