Colonization
The first permanent English settlement in America
What is Jamestown?
The war fought for American independence
What is the American Revolutionary War?
The region of the United States where slavery was most common
What is the South?
The belief that Americans should expand west
What is Manifest Destiny?
The amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
The group that arrived on the Mayflower
Who are the Pilgrims?
The document that declared independence from Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The economic system of the South that relied on enslaved labor
What is the plantation system?
The purchase that doubled the size of the U.S
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The amendment that gave citizenship to former slaves
What is the 14th Amendment?
The year Jamestown was founded
What is 1607?
The year independence was declared
What is 1776?
The agreement that attempted to balance free and slave states in 1820
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The forced relocation of Indigenous peoples
What is the Trail of Tears?
The amendment that gave Black men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
The reason many Europeans came to the New World
What is religious freedom?
The main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The law that required escaped slaves to be returned to their owners
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The war fought between the North and South
What is the American Civil War?
The amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
The number of people who were already living in the Americas by the time Europeans arrived?
what is 50 million
The treaty that officially ended the war
What is the Treaty of Paris
The event where enslaved people were forcibly transported from Africa to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
The main cause of the Civil War
What is Slavery
The movement that fought racial segregation
What is the Civil Rights Movement?