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This group of people was primarily responsible for Shays' Rebellion because they were struggling with debt and high taxes.
Who are farmers?
This specific amendment in the Bill of Rights protects citizens from "unreasonable searches and seizures."
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This 1803 land deal with France doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This term refers to placing the interests of one's own region, such as the North or the South, above the interests of the whole nation.
What is sectionalism?
This was the name of the sea journey that transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
The Great Compromise created this type of legislature, which means it is made up of two separate houses.
What is a bicameral legislature?
This Founding Father is recognized as the primary author of the Bill of Rights.
Who is James Madison?
This Shoshone woman served as a vital guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
Chief Justice Roger Taney’s ruling in this famous case stated that African Americans were not, and could never be, citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This secret network of people and safe houses helped enslaved people escape to the North or Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Under this constitutional agreement, every five enslaved people were counted as three free persons for representation and taxes.What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
According to the 10th Amendment, "Reserved Powers" are those that belong specifically to these entities
What are the states?
This 1823 policy stated that the American continents were no longer open to new colonization by European powers.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1859 raid on a federal arsenal was intended to seize weapons to arm an uprising of enslaved people.
What is John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?
This famous abolitionist and former slave wrote a best-selling narrative of his life and gave "electrifying" lectures.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This term refers to the division of power between the state governments and the federal government.
What is federalism?
The Supreme Court uses this "check and balance" power to declare a law passed by Congress unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
This term describes a community that grew almost overnight near a gold discovery during the California Gold Rush.
What is a boomtown?
The Dred Scott decision impacted this 1820 agreement by declaring it unconstitutional for Congress to ban slavery in territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Harriet Beecher Stowe reached a massive audience by writing this anti-slavery novel.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This event proved the Articles of Confederation were too weak and led leaders to meet to write the Constitution.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that banning slavery violated this amendment's right to property.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
President Jefferson was concerned about the Louisiana Purchase because the Constitution did not explicitly give him this power.
What is the power of the federal government to acquire new territory?
This person became a martyr for the abolitionist cause after his trial and execution, deeply moving many in the North.
Who is John Brown?
Although they were denied a formal voice in the government at the time, this group was responsible for the "flood" of signatures sent to Congress on anti-slavery petitions.
Who are women?