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The Reform Movements of the Antebellum period were mainly directed at these two issues.
What are slavery and women's rights.
100
Signed in 1215, the first step in English history toward a more representative Government. This document made the king subject to laws too.
What is the Magna Carta
100
Main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
This was signed after the Revolutionary War and recognized the United States as an independent nation.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
100
The reason the U.S. declared war on Great Britain in 1812.
What were impressments (forced American soldiers to work on British ships)
200
The south based its secession on this theory.
What is states' rights?
200
An agreement signed in 1620 to set up a system of social and political self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact
200
Commander of the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
200
Author of Common Sense that argued that citizens, not kings and queens should make laws. This document made a case for economic freedom and for the right to military self-defense.
Who is Thomas Paine
200
The South based its secession (leaving the Union and forming its own country) on this theory.
What is the theory of states' rights?
300
This was the main goal of the North at the beginning of the Civil War.
What is to reunite the country.
300
These acts were a result of the theory of MERCANTILISM
What are the Navigation Acts?
300
It established a tax on all imported glass, paper, lead, and tea sold in the colonies.
What is the Townshed Act
300
Colonists who chose to side with the British often called Tories
Who were the Loyalists
300
This battle was a turning point in the Civil War because it meant Lee's troops would never again launch an attack in the North.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg?
400
This battle was a turning point because it meant Lee's troops would never again launch an attack in the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
400
The word used to describe the relationship of Great Britain with its American colonies
What is interdependent
400
A turning point in the American Revolution b/c the colonies gained the support of France and Spain.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
400
The last major battle of the War of 1812 that proved America could defend itself against world powers (the battle, however, turned out to be unnecessary)
What is Battle of New Orleans (fought by Andrew Jackson, who Jackson Square in New Orleans is named after)
400
This document freed slaves ONLY IN THE CONFEDERATE SOUTH.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
Congressional Reconstruction failed in regards to this.
To guarantee fair treatment for African Americans after the Civil War and the 13th Amendment (ended all slavery in the United States).
500
The first ten amendments
What is the bill of Rights
500
Law passed in Parliament to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
What is Intolerable Acts
500
This was the principle that European nations could not establish new colonies in North and South America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
500
This was the Amendment that outlawed slavery in the entire United States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?