Civil War
This term describes loyalty to a region of the country rather than the nation as a whole
Sectionalism
This act required colonists to house British soldiers, increasing tensions before the war
Quartering Act
This cash crop became the foundation of North Carolina’s early economy and led to the growth of slavery.
Tobacco
This system kept many African Americans in poverty by forcing them to farm land owned by others for a share of the crops.
Sharecropping
A person refuses to testify against themselves in court—this protection comes from this amendment
5th
This 1861 event started the Civil War
Battle of Fort Sumter
This issue caused the biggest divide between the North and South before the Civil War.
Slavery
This 1773 protest in Boston involved colonists dumping tea into the harbor to resist taxation
Boston Tea Party
North Carolina was nicknamed this after being seen as slow to develop industrially and resistant to change
Rip Van Winkle State
This organization was created to help formerly enslaved people with education, jobs, and legal support.
Freedmen's Bureau
This democratic principle is demonstrated when Congress makes laws, the president enforces them, and the courts interpret them
The Seperation of Powers
These English settlers first established permanent settlement in Virginia in 1607
Jamestown
This region’s economy depended mostly on agriculture and cash crops like cotton.
South
This phrase described the belief that colonists should not be taxed without having representatives in Parliament.
“no taxation without representation”
This nickname reflects North Carolina’s early production of tar, pitch, and turpentine
The Tar Heel State
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
13th
The 1st Amendment has five freedoms
Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition
This economic system tied colonies together by trading raw materials for manufactured goods, often benefiting Europe more than the colonies
Mercantilism
This compromise tried to balance free and slave states in the U.S. Senate
Missouri Compromise
This 1770 event, in which British soldiers killed colonists in Boston, was used as Patriot propaganda.
The Boston Massacre
This document, adopted on April 12, 1776, in North Carolina, authorized delegates to vote for independence from Great Britain.
The Halifax Resolves
This amendment protected voting rights regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
15th
This event showed the weaknesses of the Articles when farmers protested economic conditions in Massachusetts
Shay's Rebellion
This document outlined grievances against King George III and justified independence based on Enlightenment ideas.
Declaration of Independence
This law allowed voters in new territories to decide on slavery, increasing tensions
Kansas-Nebraska Act
These early battles marked the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775
Battles of Lexington and Concord
This natural resource was key to early shipbuilding and trade along the coast
Timber (wood)
This Supreme Court case weakened the 14th Amendment by ruling that segregation was legal if facilities were “separate but equal.”
Plessy v. Ferguson
Police search a home without a warrant—this amendment may have been violated
4th
This trade network connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas in a system of exchange involving enslaved people, goods, and raw materials
Triangle Trade
This political party formed in the 1850s to oppose the spread of slavery
Republican Party
This British general surrendered at Yorktown, signaling the end of major fighting.
Cornwallis
North Carolina is divided into these three geographic regions
Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and Mountains
The laws and practices that enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction ended.
Jim Crow
This compromise created a two-house legislature with representation based on population in one and equal representation in the other.
The Great Compromise
This forced migration route brought millions of Africans to the Americas under brutal conditions.
The Middle Passage
This strategy aimed to cut the Confederacy into sections and control major waterways
Anaconda Plan
This system of communication used committees to organize resistance across the colonies.
The Committees of Correspondence
Created in the 1950's this region of North Carolina is known for its concentration of universities, technology companies, and research institutions.
The Research Triangle
This agreement ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South
Compromise of 1877
Branch of government missing from the Articles of Confederation
Executive
This 1898 event in North Carolina involved a violent coup in which white supremacists overthrew an elected city government, destroyed Black-owned businesses, and marked the only successful coup d’état in U.S. history.
Wilmington Riot
This document changed the goal of the war from preserving the Union to ending slavery
Emancipation Proclamation
This Enlightenment thinker’s ideas about natural rights strongly influenced the Declaration of Independence
John Locke
This British general fought at Guilford Courthouse and later moved toward Virginia
Cornwallis
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
14th
This amendment process requires approval from both Congress and the states, showing this principle of shared power
Federalism
This principle states that government power is divided between national and state governments
This compromise allowed slavery in some new territories while banning it in others, deepening sectional tensions
Compromise of 1850
This tactic involved fighting in small groups and using surprise attacks instead of traditional battlefield formations.
Guerilla warfare
North Carolina initially refused to ratify the United States Constitution in 1788 because leaders demanded the addition of this before agreeing to join the new government
Bill of Rights
This group in Congress wanted harsher punishments for the South and stronger protections for freedmen.
Radical Republicans
This doctrine allows federal laws to override conflicting state laws
Supremacy Clause
A law is created that limits rights not listed in the Constitution but still considered protected. What amendment supports this idea?
Ninth
This raid attempted to start a slave rebellion by seizing a federal armory in Virginia.
John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
This mountain range made communication and movement difficult for both armies
Appalachian Mountains
This 1760s uprising in North Carolina protested corruption, unfair taxes, and colonial officials, and is often seen as an early example of resistance to authority that helped shape later Revolutionary ideas
Regulator Movement
During the end of Reconstruction and the years that followed, Southern states used legal barriers such as literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses to prevent African Americans from voting, despite protections in the 15th Amendment. This is called
Disenfranchisement
This Supreme Court power allows it to declare laws unconstitutional, even though it is not explicitly stated in the Constitution
Judicial Review
Which article of the Constitution allows changes to be made to the United States Constitution, requiring approval by two-thirds of Congress (or a national convention) and ratification by three-fourths of the states.
5th Article