The Constitution
This branch of the government has the ability to veto laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
This major change in how goods were made began in Great Britain and involved using machines instead of hand tools.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This machine changed farming in the South and lead to a massive growth in the practice of slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
This was the main cause of the American Civil War.
What is slavery?
Ratified in 1865, this amendment to the Constitution officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude across the entire United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
This principle divides the powers of government into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
What is separation of powers?
The invention of this machine by James Watt greatly improved the efficiency of factories and transportation.
What is the steam engine?
This famous Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved people were not citizens and had no rights.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford? (also acceptable: The Dred Scott decision)
This Confederate general was the leader of the Army of Northern Virginia and a brilliant military strategist.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This amendment, passed in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed equal protection of the laws, directly challenging the Dred Scott decision.
What is the 14th amendment?
This amendment protects Americans against unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
The United States began the first national system of these during the Industrial Revolution.
What are roads and/or turnpikes?
The Compromise of 1850 included this law, which required citizens to help return escaped enslaved people to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This three-day battle in Pennsylvania in July 1863 was a major turning point in the war, ending the Confederacy's invasion of the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This federal agency was created to help formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South by providing food, education, and medical care.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
To add an amendment to the Constitution, it must be proposed and then ratified by this fraction of the states.
What is three-fourths?
Eli Whitney was responsible for this invention, crucial to many different industries during the Industrial Revolution.
What are interchangeable parts?
This violent period in Kansas, where pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups fought, earned it this nickname.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This order issued by Abraham Lincoln declared that all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This series of four Congressional acts were designed to oversee the readmission of Southern states to the Union after the Civil War, requiring them to ratify the 14th amendment (among other things).
What are the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
This article of the Constitution, also known as the Supremacy Clause, says that if local law or state law conflicts with federal law, federal law is superior.
What is Article VI?
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, at one time the largest cotton textile plant in the world, was located in this New Hampshire city.
What is Manchester?
Published in Boston, this fiery antislavery newspaper was called The Liberator and was begun by this man.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This general was in command of Union troops during the Battle of Gettysburg.
This man was widely considered the leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?