Early Colonies
These were the Indigenous Peoples who lived in Maine before colonization.
Who are the Wabanaki?
This was a famous slogan used to protest unfair taxes before the Revolution.
What is "No taxation without representation?"
This was the idea that it was the United States fate to expand to the west coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
There were many causes of the Civil War, but this was the biggest cause.
What is slavery?
These were the two main goals of the Reconstruction Era.
What is reintegrating the south, and deciding how to help the Freedmen?
This was a movement that aimed to prohibit alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
These were the British religious dissenters who colonized British North America.
Who were the Puritans/Quakers?
These were a collection of ideals/philosophies based around the ideas of natural/individual rights rights, all men being created equal, and rational thinking.
What is the Enlightenment?
This was a trend in American culture that caused different regions of the country to become different from each other, and have conflicts with each other.
What is Sectionalism?
This is the number/percentage of people who died during the Civil War.
What is 600,000-700,000/%2 of the US pop?
These are known as the Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
This was a famous strike where steelworkers for Carnegie Steel refused to accept reduced pay. The strike ended when the National Guard/Pinkerton Detective Agency opened fire on them.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This was a famous representative government in Virginia colony.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This was the name of the first government of the United States. It was famous for being to weak to do even simple things, like collecting taxes.
What are The Articles of Confederation?
This is a power granted to the Supreme Court by Marbury v. Madison. It allows them to declare laws/executive actions unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
This invention gave the Union a big advantage in the war. It allowed them to communicate much more effectively.
What is the telegraph?
This was an organization whose job was to support the Freedmen.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This infamous factory fire inspired better safety regulations in the workplace.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This was the British policy that allowed the Colonies to run independently for many years.
What is Benign Neglect?
This is the battle that secured French aid for the Revolutionaries.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This was an event where pro-slavery and anti-slavery people fought over whether their state should legalize slavery or not.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This ended slavery in the rebelling states, and allowed black men to serve in the Union army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This man was a Union general, U.S. President, and basically eliminated the KKK until their revival in the 1920's.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This was what Carrie Chapman Catt called the "Winning Strategy" for winning Women's suffrage.
What is pursuing both state laws and a federal amendment.
These were the laws that made British religious dissenters want to leave Britain.
What was the Act of Supremacy and the Act of Uniformity?
This was the infamous compromise that stated slaves would be partially counted towards a states population, giving these states more power in Congress.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
This was a major change in American life spurred by new technologies (i.e. the railroad, factories).
What is the Market Revolution?
This famous Mainer won a critical battle at Gettysburg.
Who was Joshua Chamberlain?
This controversial event ended Reconstruction in the South, and got Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This muckraker was responsible for bringing attention to Standard Oils shady business practices, eventually leading to the court case Standard Oil v. U.S.
Who is Ida Tarbell?