Reconstruction
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The U.S expanded in this direction.
What is Westward?
The first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
A revival of religion that swept through the American Colonies.
What is the Great Awakening?
The people who lived in North America before Europeans arrived.
What is Native Americans?
What are Black Codes?
Antebellum America was before this historical event.
What is the Civil War?
The two political parties run by Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans?
A cash crop that became a major source of money for the Southern colonies.
What is tobacco?
The exchange of crops, animals, diseases, and ideas between the Old World and New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This U.S. federal agency helped formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This movement was an effort to end slavery.
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
A violent protest by farmers in western Pennsylvania over the excise tax on Whiskey.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
Britain's long-term policy of loosely enforcing laws in the American colonies.
What is Salutary Neglect?
An agreement signed by male passengers for the Plymouth Colony named after the ship they traveled on.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This informal deal ended the dispute over the 1876 presidential election and removed federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The pro-slavery argument by John C. Calhoun
What is The Positive Good Theory?
These resolutions argued that States could nullify federal laws.
What is the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
An armed conflict between English settlers and Native Americans as a last effort from the natives to stop colonial expansion.
What is King Philip's War?
A land grant program used by early British colonies that offered wealthy elites land if they brought settlers into America.
What is the Headright System?
This act were laws that divided the South into five military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
This law required runaway slaves to be returned to their owners and punish those who helped the slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
A series of laws that limited speech and permitted the President to deport immigrants deemed dangerous.
What is the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This law regulated colonial trade and enforced mercantilism
What are the Navigation Acts?
A common Native American belief that all natural things such as animals and plants possess a spiritual essence or soul.
What is Animism?