Leaders of the early nation
Which town did John Smith help establish?
Jamestown
A person from the Northern states who went to the South to profit from Reconstruction.
CarpetBaggers
Who offered free religious expression and cheap land in Pennsylvania to new immigrants in the United States?
William Penn
What path through the west did white people force Native Americans to travel down?
The Trail of Tears
What is the Headright System?
People who pay for passage to America and got 50 acres of land due to this system.
Who gave the Gettysburg Address, a speech given in the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania after the Union defeated the confederate armies.
Abraham Lincoln
The outcome of this case decided that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution. The doctrine came to be known as "separate but equal"
Plessy vs. Ferguson
What is the name of the housing buildings that people were forced into because of overpopulation in cities?
Tenement Slums
What Native tribes in the southwest were referred to as cliff dwellers?
The Anasazi
1882-prohibiting any further immigration of Chinese to Angel Island on the West Coast to curb the numbers of success during this time, was excessive materialism and political corruption.
Chinese Exclusion Act
James Madison
This network of secret routes and safe houses in the United States was used by enslaved Africans to escape their plantations.
The Underground Railroad
A nativist political party and movement in the United States in the mid-1850s, to combat foreign influences and uphold traditional American ways.
Know-Nothing Party
What system forced Natives to live on Spanish plantations?
Encomienda System
What is the name of the act in 1790 that was created to restrict citizenship to any immigrant until they had been in the U.S. for 2 years?
Naturalization Act of 1790
Who was the principle author of the Federalist Papers?
Alexander Hamilton
Beginning in the mid-19th century, women sought to change voting laws to allow them to vote. What's the name for this issue?
Women's Suffrage
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
Laws made it easier to deport foreigners and suppress immigrants right to vote.
Which religious group sought positive relationships with Native Americans
Quakers
Which treaty was signed on November 19, 1794, that was an agreement by the United States and Great Britain that helped avert war between the two nations?
Jays Treaty
which president fought in the battle of Trenton?
George Washington
Battle of Thanes
Servants worked 4-7 years before freedom to pay off the cost of passage through this.
indentured servant system
Which system allowed indigenous people to govern themselves and to maintain some sort of their cultural and social traditions?
The Reservation System
What Acts where created by United States that tried to keep the United States out of war, by making it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms, or other war materials to belligerent nations?
Neutrality Acts