Thomas Hooker. Puritan. created some Fundamental Orders of ...........
What is the Connecticut Colony?
100
1803. Something was purchased in this year
What is the Louisiana Purchase
100
The North built a lot of these to move their goods up and down the rivers. They carried steamboats and flatboats. One was named the Erie. The South did not need them.
What are canals?
100
This was the first battle in the Civil War. "Stonewall" Jackson was there leading the Confederates to victory. Not a cow.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
100
These were added to protect people's rights. The first 10 amendments.
What are the Bill of Rights?
200
James Oglethorpe founded in 1732. Prisoners and the poor were sent here to work off debt.
What is the Georgia Colony?
200
1861-1865. This war divided the nation into two parts: North & South
What is the Civil War?
200
Children and immigrants worked in these in the North. The South had a few of these.
What are factories?
200
This General burned the land, killed livestock and destroyed buildings as he went across the South
What is William T. Sherman?
200
This Amendment abolished slavery in 1865 after the end of the Civil War
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
Jamestown was settled here in 1607. Tobacco was a major cash crop.
What is the Virginia Colony?
300
1776-1783. The redcoats fought us during this war
What is the American Revolution?
300
This was intended to stop the spread of slavery. Used to pick seeds and dirt from cotton. Eli Whitney invented this.
What is the cotton gin?
300
This is where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate forces to Ulyssess S. Grant. This ended the Civil War. Judge Judy could work here
What was the Appomattox Courthouse?
300
This Amendment says that no race or color of skin can stop you from voting, serving on juries or having any of the other rights in the Constitution. Passed in 1870
What is the 15th Amendment?
400
Lord Baltimore founded this colony. First place to give religious freedom to all. Named after the mother of Jesus.
What is the Maryland Colony?
400
1845. This state would later have a lone star
What is the annexation of Texas?
When Texas joined the U.S.?
400
Thousands of track were laid in primarily the North. This increased trade to others across the Union. Made people move to the cities. Choo, Choo!
What are the railroads?
400
President Lincoln issued this that would end slavery in all Union states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
The Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, and the Magna Carta are examples of this where people get the chance to elect or choose the ones that govern them.
What is representative government?
500
This colony believed in the separation of church and state, freedom of religion. Roger Williams founded this colony.
What is the Rhode Island Colony?
500
1853. Coach Gatson bought something.
What is the Gadsen Purchase?
500
economic system featuring minimal government interference (laissez faire). encourages business to trade, invest and compete.
What is free enterprise?
500
This helped blacks and poor whites to gain land, clothing and medicine. President Lincoln set this up before he was assassinated. Carried out by President Johnson.
What is the Freedman's Bureau
500
This Amendment says that if you are born in the United States then you are a citizen and entitled to all legal benfits of being one.