Revolution
Which country allied with the colonists during the Rev War?
France
The three different colonies were New England, Middle, and Southern. Which of these colonies depended on slavery the LEAST and why?
New England, small farms
The United States and Mexico went to war over border disputes concerning which current US state?
Texas
What was the belief of the Republican party on slavery, as established ahead of the election of 1860?
Stop slavery from expanding
What federal agency was created in 1865 to protect the legal rights of former slaves and to provide them with other services?
Freedmen's Bureau
After the French and Indian War, Britain issues the Proclamation of 1763. What did this document declare?
Colonists could not expand west of the Appalachian Mntns. (preserve peace with Native Americans)
Define representative government.
Colonists elect representatives to local assemblies to make laws (Town Meetings and House of Burgesses)
Explain the concept of Manifest Destiny.
It's Americas God-given right to spread from coast to coast
List three advantages that the Union had going into the war.
- railroads
- industrial economy
- established gov't
- money
- population
List two ways the KKK exhibited hate against African Americans.
- lynching
- burning homes/churches
- Harassment
- threats
Trying to prevent African Americans from exercising their rights
List an advantage Great Britain had at the start of the war.
Powerful navy
Trained army
More $ and resources to fund war
Established government
Describe the difference between indentured servitude and slavery.
IS: Contract work (3-7 years)
Slavery: Lifetime enslavement
The Election of 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was considered a revolution. Why?
Peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another (Feds to Dem-repubs)
Describe the Anaconda Plan. (3 parts)
Blockade southern ports, cut off their supplies, and cut the Confederacy in two
Describe the Compromise of 1877, which formally ended Reconstruction.
Rutherford B. Hayes (republican) becomes president, but Hayes had to remove any federal troops still in the South.
Which battle was the last of the Revolutionary War, resulting in a win for the colonists?
Yorktown
The first Puritans to come to Plymouth, MA and establish a civil government for the Plymouth colony based upon the concept of the “public good” was called The........
Mayflower Compact
Define impressment (one of the causes of the War of 1812)
Britain kidnapping American sailors
Explain the Emancipation Proclamation. What did it declare? (2 things) Where did it apply?
- slaves are contraband of war and free in rebelling states
- African Americans can fight for the Union
Why were Copperheads against the Civil War?
- fear of job competition (immigrants)
- against the federal draft
- Lincoln is a tyrant
After the Boston Tea Party, Britain passed a series of unpopular acts known as the Intolerable Acts. Name one facet that was established through these acts.
Closed Boston's port
Banned Town Meetings
Quartering Act = British troops housed in private buildings
Besides being a male, what was a requirement to voting in the colonies?
property ownership
What is popular sovereignty, as established by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
People living in a territory determine whether slavery should be permitted there
Where did Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant discuss and sign the surrender? (FULL NAME)
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments do? (must tell me what each did)
13- end slavery
14 - citizenship and due process
15 - voting rights