RECONSTRUCTION
The period focused on rebuilding the South after the civil war.
"What is Reconstruction?'
This term describes this time period before the Civil War.
What is Antebellum America?
This was the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
These groups were the original inhabitants of North America.
Who are Native Americans?
These amendments abolished slavery, granted citizenship, and protected voting rights
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments about?
This crop dominated the Southern economy.
What is cotton?
This document added ten amendments to protect individual liberties from federal power.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This group signed the Mayflower Compact to establish self government.
Who are the pilgrims?
This land bridge allowed early humans to migrate into North America
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
This group used violence and intimidation to oppose Reconstruction policies.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This invention increased the need for enslaved labor.
What is cotton?
These two political parties formed over disagreements about federal power and the economy.
What are the Federalists and Democratic/Republicans?
This labor system dominated the colonies before the widespread use of enslaved labor.
What is indentured servitude?
This civilization build large mounds and complex societies in the Mississippi River Valley.
Who are the Mississippians?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This abolitionist published the newspaper "The Liberator."
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This 1794 uprising tested the new federal governments ability to enforces it laws.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This conflict between Britain and France set the stage for colonial resentment toward Britain
What is the French and Indian war?
This factor explains why Native American cultures differed across regions.
What is geography and climate?
This 1867 law divided the South into military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
This compromise temporarily settled the issue of slavery in new territories in 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise.
These laws limited free speech and targeted immigrants during John Adam's presidency.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This economic system justified British control over colonial trade.
What is mercantilism?
This exchange introduced new crops, animals, and diseases between the Old and New worlds.
What is the columbian Exchange?