Causes of American Revolution
King of Britain at the time of the Revolution
King George III
This document was a break up letter with England
Declaration of Independence
Three branches of government
Executive, Judicial and Legislative
President that made the Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson
This amendment guaranteed the right for black men to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This disease was brought to the Americas by European explorers.
What is smallpox?
Name the 2 sides in the Civil War
North and the South or Yankees and Rebs or United States vs the CSA
A tax on all paper products that angered colonists
Stamp Act
This document freed the slaves in the rebelling states in the South.
Emancipation Proclamation
Author of the Virginia Plan
James Madison
Father of Texas
Stephen Fuller Austin
This department was established by Congress in 1865 by Congress to help millions of freedmen and poor whites in the South
What is the Freedmans’ Bureau?
Native Americans used these animals to hunt, fight and travel long distances.
What are horses?
President of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
A riot that took place having British soldiers firing into a crowd killing 5 colonists.
Boston Massacre
This Document begins with "We the People"
The Constitution
Father of the Constitution
James Madison
President who pushed for the Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson
This amendment abolished slavery except for convicted criminals
What is the 13th Amendment?
This group of native Americans lived in igloos, traveled by kayaks and dogsleds, and hunted whales.
Who are the Artic Native Americans?
First Major Battle of the Civil War where people picnicked to watch it
The Battle of Bull Run
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
This document is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution
Bill of Rights
Presided over Constitutional Convention
George Washington
Cherokee leader that fought the Indian Removal Act
Chief John Ross
A negative name for a Northerner who went to the South to make money and help Freedmen.
What is a carpetbagger?
XXBison were very important to this group of Native Americans
Who were the Plains Indians?
Robert E. Lee
The colonists were angry at parliament and the king for this “chant” they’d use.
No Taxation without Representation
This document was a pamphlet used to explain to colonists that separating from Britain was the right thing to do.
Common Sense
Number of states needed to ratify the constitution
9
America’s Expansionist President that acquires Texas, Oregon and the Mexican Cession
James K Polk
This court case involved an African American man who refused to leave the white's only train car. He was arrested and it resulted in the Supreme Court decision of "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
This Native American woman may or may not have saved John Smith’s life.
Who is Pocahontas?
Ulysses S. Grant
Secret society of patriots that organized boycotts and rebelled against the British rule.
Sons of Liberty
Approved on November 15, 1777, this document served as the first constitution.
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION:
Age requirement for being President of US
35
Native American woman that helped Lewis and Clark explore the Northwest
Sacagawea
The period following the Civil War during which the U.S. Government worked to reunite the nation and rebuild the south
What is Reconstruction?
Before the Pilgrims went ashore, they created a set of rules to help them live together peacefully.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Single Bloodiest Day of the war
Battle of Antietam
Author of Common Sense
Thomas Paine
This law passed on May 30, 1854 repealed the Missouri Compromise and created two new territories
KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
Author of the New Jersey Plan
William Patterson
Who sold America the Louisiana Territory
Napoleon
A fee you had to pay in order to vote
What is a poll tax?
This word was found carved in a tree after Roanoke Colony was deserted
What is Croatoan?
Famous Abraham Lincoln speech in honor of the first National Battlefield Cemetery
Gettysburg Address
Laws passed by King George to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts also accepted)
This legislation granted birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
Government US had in effect prior to the Constitution
Articles of Confederation
Legendary frontiersman killed at the Alamo
Davy Crockett
A test some voters had to take to prove they could read or write.
What is a literacy test?
The Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations lived in this part of what is today the U.S.
What is the Southeast?
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
The Shot Heard Round the World.
Gunshot fired at Lexington
Signed by Great Britain and United States on September 3, 1783, this document officially ended the American Revolutionary War
THE TREATY OF PARIS
The number of members in the House of Representatives
435
Author of the National Anthem
Francis Scott Key
He became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This explorer thought he discovered a passage to India when he landed on what is today the Bahamas.
Who is Columbus?
Battle that sparked the Civil War
Battle of Fort Sumter
The name of the gathering in 1774 when twelve of the thirteen colonies sent a letter to King George III established a boycott of British goods.
FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
A proposal written by James Madison for the creation of a supreme national government that was based on population and favored large states.
VIRGINIA PLAN
The Constitution names this person to preside over the Senate, make parliamentary rulings, and may cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate
VICE PRESIDENT
The 19th Century belief that Westward Expansion was both justifiable and inevitable
MANIFEST DESTINY
The site of the assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865
FORD THEATER
This was the first permanent English Colony in the United States.
What is Jamestown?
Where did Lee surrender?
Appomattox Courthouse