Reconstruction
This was the time period after the Civil War when the country tried to fix itself.
What is Reconstruction?
This term describes the time in America before the Civil War started.
What is Antebellum America?
This document set up how the U.S. government works.
What is the Constitution?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
These were the first people living in North America.
Who are Native Americans?
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This system forced enslaved people to work mainly on Southern plantations.
What is slavery?
These first ten amendments protect people’s basic rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This colony was founded by people looking for religious freedom.
What is Plymouth Colony?
This European power Native Americans looked to for protection from American settlers.
Who are the British?
This government program helped freed slaves get education and jobs after the war.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This phrase showed how important cotton was to the Southern economy.
What is “King Cotton”?
This political group wanted a strong national government.
Who are the Federalists?
This rebellion showed how weak the national government was under the Articles.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This Native American group lived in the northeastern woodlands.
Who are the Iroquois?
These laws were made in the South to control African Americans after slavery ended.
What are the Black Codes?
This act allowed new territories to vote on whether they wanted slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This law made it harder for immigrants to become U.S. citizens.
What is the Naturalization Act?
This crop made Jamestown rich and increased the use of enslaved labor.
What is tobacco?
This area still contained British forts even after the American Revolution ended.
What is the Ohio Valley?
This deal in 1877 ended Reconstruction by pulling Union troops out of the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This court case said enslaved people were property and not U.S. citizens.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
These laws limited free speech and allowed the government to arrest critics.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This rebellion showed colonists were starting to get mad at their leaders.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This caused a huge drop in Native American populations after Europeans arrived.
What is disease?