Revolution!
This event started as a skirmish between colonists and Redcoats, but spiraled out of control quickly when guns went off.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This is term most widely used to describe the American movement westward towards the Pacific Ocean over the course of the 19th Century.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These were the four major "disunion events" that served as a prelude to the Civil War.
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska/Bleeding Kansas
Fugitive Slave Act
Lincoln Election
This is the name of the time in American history where people tried to solve problems in our society.
What is the Progressive Era?
This law passed by Britain kept colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains. At least until we declared ourselves independent and did what we wanted to do.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
As a response to the Boston Tea Party, the British responded with these...they were insufferable to the Colonists.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This trail of Native American removal went through Danville, IL.
What is the Potawatomi Trail of Death?
This 1862 document freed most slaves in America. But NOT those who were unfortunate enough to be living in the Border States
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This father of modern photography took pictures of life in the slums and captured American hearts with his work entitled How the Other Half Lives
Who is Jacob Riis?
This sparked a HUGE migration westward into California in the 1840s.
What is the discovery of gold?
These were the first battles of the Revolutionary War.
What are Lexington and Concord?
Walden by Henry David Thoreau pushed readers to become one with this.
What is nature?
These Amendments were passed during the Reconstruction Era. MUST EXPLAIN WHAT THE AMENDMENT DID!
13th - Banned slavery
14th - Equal protection, citizenship
15th - Allowed all MEN the right to vote
This American president had a number of great characteristics including his ability to be a family man, conservationist, and leader of men.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This was NICKNAME of the plan proposed by Radical Republicans to bring the South back into the country after the Civil War.
What is the "40 acres and a mule" plan?
How did Thomas Paine's Common Sense convince Americans that independence was the right thing to do?
Paine's pamphlet spelled out exact reasons WHY America should be independent. Examples: Britain was 2,000 miles away, America was bigger, and we were being taxed without representation in Parliament.
In his 19th century essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson challenges people to do what?
What is to be self-reliant?
This backdoor agreement effectively ended Reconstruction because Rutherford B. Hayes took Union troops out of the South, and things went back to the way they were before the Civil War. (Enter Jim Crow era)
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This anti-immigration term describes the viewpoint of Americans throughout the history of the United States. The only real difference is the group of people who have been targeted over the years.
What is nativism?
(Or a nativist)
This is a group of people who fight for workers' rights, pay, and safety.
What is a trade union?
These were two warnings made by George Washington in his final address to America
What are getting involved with other nations and political parties?
(Also that we need to protect the idea of Checks and Balances)
These are the three main ideals of Transcendentalism.
1. Nature
2. Self-Reliance
3. People are at their best when they're independent
The theme of Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman is....
What is that being smaller or less educated didn't make women less than a man.
OR
Women should be thought of as equal to men.
This type of person doesn't care about your problems. Figure it out on your own.
What is a Social Darwinist?
This famous novel was written to expose the horrors of slavery in America.
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin?