Important People
The first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded by the Virginia Company
What is Jamestown?
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
What is the battles of Lexington and Concord?
The name of the document that officially stated America's separation from Great Britain.
Gave us the right to freedom of speech, petition, assembly, religion, and press.
What is the First Amendment?
African American educator and reformer, influential reformer, and spokesmen. He was the pricipal developer of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
Who is Booker T Washington?
The set of laws beginning in 1662 defining racial slavery
What is Slave Codes
Known as the bloodiest battle in American History
What is the battle of Antietam?
This document was an agreement between the original 13 colonies that served as its first frame of government.
Made it so an individual cannot be forced to provide incriminating evidence about themselves by the government.
What is the 5th Amendment?
17th president of the United States and worked to better the US during the Reconstruction Era.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
An act regulating stamp duty, Tax on the legal recognition of documents.
What is Stamp Act
The first battle that began the Civil War
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter
The basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it
What is the Constitution?
Abolished slavery in the United States and all of it’s territories.
What is the 13th Amendment?
instigated the important court case Brown v Board of Education over discrimination against his daughter.
Who is Oliver Brown?
System for electing presidents of the US.
Electoral College
Gave the North a major morale boost and put a definitive end to Confederate General Robert E. Lee's bold plan to invade the North
Battle of Gettysburg
The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Allowed Congress to lay taxes on income from any source without regard to the states and census.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Instigated the Court case Plessy v. Ferguson which established the separate but equal doctrine.
Who is Homer Plessy?
Houses where immigrants would live upon entry of the US
Settlement Houses
Marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War
What is the Battle of Saratoga
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, announcing, "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas "are, and henceforward shall be free."
Allowed voters to cast direct votes for US senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?