Era Characteristics
Amendments
Reconstruction
Reform
Representative Government
100

-Renewed sense of nationalism

-Industrially independent

-Manufacturing increases in the US

What period of time is being described?

The Era of Good Feelings

100

Religious leaders were prohibited from being elected to government office.

This is considered unconstitutional according to the ____amendment.

First Amendment

1st Amendment

100

During Reconstruction, many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt as a consequence of ____.

The Sharecropping System

100

_________was a reform movement that promoted spiritual revival and the need for social reform.

The Second Great Awakening

100

The main reason why the colonists formed their own self representative governments in the colonies.

Distance/ Salutary Neglect

200

-The Spanish set up missions

-French show interest in fur trading

-British in search of trade routes

What period of time is being described?

European Exploration

200

-Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American Senator.

-African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election.

Events such as these occurred as a result of the ____ amendment.

Fifteenth Amendment


15th Amendment

200

Provided food, shelter and clothing, Negotiated and enforced labor contracts, and Established school was part of the work done by______.




The Freedmen's Bureau

200

The purpose of the ____ was to end the practice of slavery and secure freedom for enslaved people.

Abolitionist Movement

200

~social Contract 

~signed by the Pilgrims in 1620

~served as an example of self government in Massachusetts

These all describe_____.

Mayflower Compact

300

-Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

-Radical Republicans move to impeach Andrew Johnson

-Former slaves become trapped in a cycle of debt

-Black Codes limited the rights of African Americans

What period of time is being described?

Reconstruction

300

African Americans in the South could move elsewhere.

This is the result of the _____ amendment.

Thirteenth Amendment

13th Amendment

300

Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to help rebuild and sometimes gain political or economic advantages were called_____.

Carpetbaggers

300

The goal of the ____ was to reduce or eliminate the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Temperance Movement

300

Distance from Great Britain

Mayflower Compact

Townhall meetings

These all led to______. 

The growth of representative government in the British colonies.

400

-French and Indian War 

-Declaration of Independence

-Boston Tea Party

-Intolerable Acts

What period of time is being described?

Causes of the American Revolution

400

A new mosque recently opened up in town.

A Baptist church and a Jewish synagogue are located right across the street. 

This is the result of the _____ amendment.

First Amendment

1st Amendment

400

Southern states adopted Black Codes to during Reconstruction in order to limit the impact of what amendment?

Thirteenth Amendment

13th Amendment

400

The goal of the____ was to give women the right to vote. 

Women's Rights Movement

Women's Suffrage

400

First colonial assembly

served as a model for other colonial legislatures in 1619

Power to make laws for the colony

These all describe________.

The Virginia House of Burgesses

500

-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1787

-Ratification Debate: Federalist v Antifederalist

-New Jersey Plan v Virginia Plan 

-3/5ths Compromise

What period of time is being described?

Constitutional Convention

500

This amendment was ratified in order to grant citizenship and legal rights to African Americans.

Fourteenth Amendment

14th Amendment 

500

Andrew Johnson's opposition to Radical Reconstruction policies for former Confederate states led to ____

His impeachment in 1868.

500

Frederick Douglass contributed to the abolitionist movement after he escaped slavery. He spoke out against it through powerful speeches and writing.

What was the name of his famous newspaper?

 

The North Star

500

~created by Thomas Hooker

~extended voting rights to non church members

~the first written Constitution in the colonies

These all describe_______.

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut