People and Ideas
Name the committee member who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson
The policy emancipated (freed) all slaves held in the states engaged in rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Which surprise attack after crossing a river on Christmas night boosted American morale in 1776?
What is the Battle of Trenton?
What 1803 land purchase doubled the size of the United States?
What is the Louisanna Purchase?
Who had the best general during the Civil War? (According to GMAS Standards) (Confederacy or Union?
What is the Confederacy?
Which two European military officers helped professionalize the Continental Army at Valley Forge?
Who is Baron von Steuben and the Marquis de Lafayette
What Supreme Court decision in 1857 ruled that African Americans could not be citizens and invalidated congressional limits on slavery in the territories?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford (Scott v. Sanford)
At which 1777 battle did American forces gain a decisive victory that helped secure French alliance?
What is Saratoga?
What phrase described the 19th-century belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent?
What is Manifest Destiny.
This general was considered a brilliant military tactician and was a great commander for Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army. He was very skilled in the field through maneuvering his forces against often larger and better-equipped opponents
Who is General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Who was the president following Abraham Lincoln's death?
Who is Andrew Johnson.
Describe the significance of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments.
What is the 13th amendment- Abolishes Slavery
What is the 14th Amendment- Estabilishes Citizenship of African American Men
What is the 15 Amendment- African Amercian Men right to vote.
This was the deadliest battle of the American Civil War. Geography played a key role in the outcome of this particular battle, the location is surrounded by steep hills and rugged terrain. Once the Union Forces secured the high ground, it was difficult for the Confederates to overpower the enemy due to their fortified location.
What is the battle of Gettysburg
What 1820 compromise admitted Maine and preserved the Senate balance by allowing Missouri as a slave state?
What is the Missouri Compromise
Who was the president of the Confederacy during the Civl War?
Who is Jefferson Davis.
List the 2 forms of resistance to racial equality during Reconstruction.
What/Who is the Black Codes and the Ku Klux Klan.
Throughout the war, in some states Lincoln suspended the constitutional right of ___________________ - the legal rule that anyone imprisoned must be taken before a judge to determine if the prisoner is being legally held in custody. Lincoln used his emergency powers to legalize the holding of Confederate sympathizers without trial and without a judge to agree they were legally imprisoned.
What is habeas corpus.
Union General Ulysses S. Grant laid a seven-week siege to this place during the civil war because whoever controlled the high ground there in the bend of the Mississippi River would control traffic on the whole river. Because the Union now controlled the Mississippi River, Confederate troops and supplies from Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas were cut off from the East.
What is the the Battle of Vicksburg.
How did the Kansas–Nebraska Act led to "Bleeding Kansas"?
What is the Kansas–Nebraska Act used popular sovereignty to let settlers decide slavery; pro- and anti-slavery settlers flooded Kansas, created rival governments, and violent clashes ensued.
Leaving Kansas, Brown decided to begin a slave war in the east by seizing arms and munitions and leading slaves in rebellion. In 1859, John Brown led a group of White and Black men in a raid on the federal armory where?
What is Harpers Ferry.
Who was elected during the Presidential Election of 1876 which marked the end of Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes.
What are the 3 The provisions provided with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo included?
What is:
1. The Rio Grande River would be the recognized border between the United States and Mexico.
2. Mexico ceded the territories of California and New Mexico (eventually becoming all or parts of seven states). The area became known as the Mexican Cession.
3. The United States paid $15 million to the Mexican government and assumed the claims of American citizens against the Mexican government.
For each of the three battles—Trenton, Saratoga, Yorktown—give one geographic reason that helped the Americans win
What is Trenton- Cold, Winter, Dec 25th, Icy Deleware River
What is Saratoga- High Ground, River
Yorktown- Pennisula
What are the 5 laws that make up the Compromise of 1850?
What is: 1. The state of New Mexico would be established by carving its borders from the state of Texas. 2. New Mexico's voters would determine whether the state would permit or prohibit slavery. 3. California would be admitted as a free state. 4. All citizens of the United States, regardless of region, would be required to apprehend runaway slaves and return them to their owners. Those who failed to do so would be fined or imprisoned. 5. The slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, but the practice of slavery would be allowed to continue there.
Compare and contrast Presidential Reconstruction with Congressional Reconstruction
What is Presidental Reconstruction- "laid back" not strict, Ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, repudiate secession. 10% take an oath of allegiance to the United States,
What is Congressional Reconstuction- "strict," divided the South into five military districts led by military generals, Ratify the 13th, 14th and 15th amendements, hold open elections for both White and Black representatives