Progressivism
He discovered America in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This is what a person was called during the American Revolution who supported independence from England.
What is a patriot?
It was a crop that was "King" in the South.
What is King Cotton?
His election as President caused the start of the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A pest that caused destruction to cotton crops.
What is the boll weevil?
A crop that was grown for cash profit.
What is a cash crop?
This document declared America's independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
She helped hundreds of slaves escape from slavery through an "Underground Railroad."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The first battle of the Civil War and happened in Charleston, SC.
What is The Battle of Fort Sumter?
A group of white Southerners that sought to disenfranchise blacks by using intimidation and fear.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The 3 colonial regions.
What is the Southern, Middle, and New England regions?
This is the first 3 words to the Constitution Preamble.
What is "We the people"?
The name of a "trail" where Native Americans were forced to move off of their lands.
What is the Trail of Tears?
A plan, named after a snake, that would "squeeze" the South with a blockade.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This amendment to the Constitution made slavery illegal in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment.
Corn, pole beans, and squash planted together.
What are Three Sisters?
It was the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, detailing the rights of Americans.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A slave who was denied his freedom by the Supreme Court, and this decision made slavery legal in all states.
Who was Dred Scott?
A document by Lincoln which declared all slaves were freed in the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
An experiment in a South Carolina town to see how former slaves would live in a free society.
What is the Port Royal Experiment?
A native tribe of SC that lived along the coastline and primarily fished.
What is the Yemassee tribe?
This final battle of the Amer. Revolution forced, Great Britain to surrender to the US.
What is The Battle of Yorktown?
A compromise that made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state, but also created an imaginary line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
He escaped as a slave in Charleston aboard a boat called the Planter and would later become an activist.
Who is Robert Smalls?
A supreme court decision that ruled that states have the right to make "separate, but equal" laws.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?