American Revolution and Constitution
What came first, the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution?
The Declaration of Independence
First two political parties
Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
Led raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown
Native boarding schools were meant to
assimilate Natives/destroy their culture
President during Civil War
Lincoln
Term for colonists who wanted to remain with Britain
Loyalists
President during the passage of the Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson
Turning point of the Civil War
Gettysburg
Buying things and not using them productively as a way to show status
Conspicuous Consumption
Political position against immigrants
Nativism
Group of people who wanted to ratify the Constitution
Federalists
Two causes of the War of 1812
Western land, impressment
Place into chronological orders
- Secession of South Carolina
- Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Secession of South Carolina
End of Native resistance in the west
Massacre of Wounded Knee
Party made to oppose Jackson
Whigs
Three branches, and a check and balance for each branch
Congress- impeachment
President- veto
Supreme Court- judicial review
(answers may vary)
Two reasons why the Election of 1800 was important
1. First peaceful transfer of power
2. First time a Democratic-Republican was president
3. Led to change in how vice presidents are chosen
Three things the Emancipation Proclamation did
- attempted to end slavery in the South
- allowed for black enlistment
- changed goal of the war
- kept slavery legal in the Union
Union that accepted only skilled, white male workers
American Federation of Labor
President during Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson
Years of:
- American Revolution
- Writing of Constitution
- 1775/1776-1783
- 1787
Bank War caused the _________
by _________
Panic of 1837
Pet banks lending to untrustworthy people
Four parts of the Compromise of 1850
- end of slave trade in DC
- CA as free state
- New Mexico and Utah territory could choose to be free or slave
- strengthened fugitive slave act
Disaster that killed several thousand people because rich people wanted to fish more
Johnstown Flood
Who won the Pullman Strike
- in reality
- in class
- Pullman and Federal Government
- We all did, because we all became closer as a class. It's the friends you make along the way, people!