Early America
Believed the balance of power should be between states and the national government
What is a federalist?
Added to the Constitution to protect the rights of Americans
What is the Bill of Rights?
Author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The Civil War began at __ when troops from South Carolina fired upon Federal forces.
What is Ft. Sumter?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Established two houses of Congress
What is the Great Compromise?
These laws were designed to control African Americans and put them back into slave-like conditions.
Enlightenment thinker who stated that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property
Who is John Locke?
He lead the Union forces.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
President Lincoln's Reconstruction plan
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
A protest against increased tea prices
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This provided African Americans the same legal rights as white Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Wrote Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine?
This document freed the slaves in the rebelling states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This document officially ended the Revolutionary War
What is the Treaty of Paris?
He became President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
In the ____ men who did not want to fight could find a substitute or pay $300.
Where is the North?
These people wanted to impose harsh terms on the defeated southern states
Who are the Radical Republicans?
A state had to meet two conditions to rejoin the Union after the Civil War. This document is called ____
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
He was the President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This country found new and cheaper sources of cotton in order to stay out of the Civil War.
Great Britain