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Revolutionary War
Slavery
Civil War and Reconstruction
Early Presidents
Amendments to the Constitution
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What was the United States fighting for in the Revolutionary War?
Independence
100
What is the part of the triangle trade that brought the slaves to the West Indies?
The Middle Passage
100
What was the first state to secede from the United States?
South Carolina
100
Who was George Washington's vice president?
John Adams
100
What did the thirteenth amendment do?
End slavery in the United States
200
How many colonies were there originally?
thirteen
200
What invention increased the demand for slaves?
the cotton gin
200
What did the states that seceded call themselves?
Confederate States of America/ Confederacy
200
Who was the third president of the United States?
Thomas Jefferson
200
What did the fifteenth amendment do?
Give voting rights to African Americans
300
What country helped the United States fight Great Britain?
France
300
What were people who opposed slavery called?
Abolitionists
300
What president ended Reconstruction?
Rutherford B. Hayes
300
Which president set the precedent of only serving two terms?
George Washington
300
What is the second amendment?
The right to bear arms
400
What document, written by Thomas Jefferson was signed on the fourth of July 1776?
The Declaration of Independence
400
What is popular sovereignty?
The ability for a state to vote on having slavery
400
Name two major battles of the civil war.
Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Fort Sumpter, 1st Bull Run, 2nd Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Appomattox
400
Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Johnson
400
What is one way that Southerners violated the thirteenth amendment?
Convict leasing, peonage, sharecropping
500
What treaty ended the Revolutionary War?
The Treaty of Paris
500
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
Part of the Compromise of 1850 requiring runaway slaves in the North to be returned to their masters
500
Name a Confederate general.
Robert E. Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
500
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
500
What did the fourteenth amendment do?
It made African American men citizens