FOUNDING & EARLY AMERICA
He was unanimously elected the first President in 1788.
Who is George Washington?
Privately built roads that charged tolls.
What are turnpikes?
The term for British sailors forcing Americans into service.
What is impressment?
The law requiring escaped slaves to be returned to owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
The first state to secede in 1860.
What is South Carolina?
Northerners who moved south during Reconstruction.
Who are carpetbaggers?
America’s first system of government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The belief that God intended the U.S. to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A state declaring a federal law void.
What is nullification?
The system slaves used to escape north.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The turning point of the Civil War in the East.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Southern whites who supported Reconstruction.
Who are scalawags?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The trail that ran from Missouri to Oregon.
What is the Oregon Trail?
The Chief Justice appointed by John Adams.
Who is John Marshall?
The book that increased anti-slavery feelings in the North.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
The type of war targeting civilians and armies.
What is total war?
The farming system where workers paid rent with crops.
What is sharecropping?
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The forced removal of the Cherokee people.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The political party formed in 1856 after the Whigs collapsed.
What is the Republican Party?
The Supreme Court case involving an enslaved man suing for freedom.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The main general of the Confederacy.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The first black U.S. Senator.
Who is Hiram Revels?
The giant land deal Jefferson made with France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The territory that tried to enter as a free state in 1849.
What is California?
The President who died one month into office.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
The idea that settlers vote on slavery in their territory.
What is popular sovereignty?
The final commanding general of the Union Army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The inventor who brought the factory system to America.
Who is Samuel Slater?