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(American Revolution)
(American Revolution)
This war between Britain and France in North America helped lead to higher taxes on the colonies.
What was the French and Indian War?
This document created the basic structure of the U.S. government.
What is the Constitution?
The belief that Americans should move west across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The president of the United States during most of the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
A key transportation invention that helped connect the country during westward expansion.
What is the railroad?
As a result of the French and Indian War, Great Britain placed these on the American colonies.
What were new taxes?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution that protect individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This document declared enslaved people free in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The branch of government responsible for making laws.
What is the legislative branch?
These were complaints listed in the Declaration of Independence explaining why the colonies wanted freedom.
What are the “injuries and usurpations”?
The system that divides power between the national and state governments.
What is federalism?
This route helped settlers travel west to Oregon and California.
What is the Oregon Trail?
The region of the U.S. with more factories and cities before the Civil War.
What is the North?
This Underground Railroad leader helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This Enlightenment idea influenced colonists to believe government should protect natural rights like life, liberty, and property.
What is natural rights?
This principle divides government power into legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is separation of powers?
This discovery led to a large migration to California in 1849.
What is the Gold Rush?
This law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Jefferson Davis surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant here.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This leader helped secure French support for the American cause, which was a turning point in the war.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
This system allows each branch of government to limit the power of the others.
What are checks and balances?
A government policy that forced Native Americans off their land, leading to the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The Civil War took place during these years.
What is 1861-1865?