Colonial Foundations
What is Jamestown?
Proclamation that prohibited settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Protest against high taxes, economic hardship, and political corruption?
What was Shay's Rebellion?
Agency that was established to aid newly freed slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
A U.S. belief that it was their God given right to expand across the entirety of North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
When millions of African Americans were taken from their homes due to slave trading.
What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Battle that ended the Revolutionary War.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
First political party in the U.S.
Who are the Federalists?
Amendment that prohibited the denial of voting based on race.
Five laws to address slavery rules in newly acquired territory in the U.S.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The economy of the Southern colonies.
What is agriculture?
Signed when the colonies declared independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
First constitution of the United States, which was horribly flawed.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Amendment that abolished slavery.
Battle considered to be a major turning point in the Civil War, victory for the Union.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The trade route that connected Europe, the Americas, and Africa.
What is the Triangular Trade route?
Ended the American Revolution as a whole.
What was the Treaty of Paris?
Papers intended to promote the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Federalist papers?
White supremacist group that was most known for attacks of African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Army General that lead the Union to victory.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Founded by the Puritans who wished for religious freedom.
What is the Massachusetts Bay colony?
Group formed to protest against British policies.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
First 10 amendments added to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Amendment that game African Americans citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Case where a man who was recently freed, tried to sue his previous slave owner.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?