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The year the U.S. bought a giant piece of land from France and doubled its size.
What is 1803? (The Louisiana Purchase)
The "Trigger Word" for the 13th Amendment.
What is FREE? (Ends slavery)
Articles 1, 2, and 3 split the government into these three branches.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches?
In 1840, the South’s economy and high enslaved population were primarily driven by a reliance on this crop
What is cotton?
Eli Whitney's invention of identical parts that allowed for fast factory work.
What are Interchangeable Parts?
This principle splits the U.S. government into three parts: Legislative (makes laws), Executive (enforces laws), and Judicial (interprets laws)
What is Separation of Powers?
The "Trigger Word" for the 15th Amendment.
What is VOTE? (Suffrage)
This principle keeps one person from becoming a King by giving everyone different jobs.
What is Separation of Powers?
This man led a violent raid at Harpers Ferry and made the North and South hate each other more.
What is John Brown?
Making thousands of items quickly and cheaply in a factory.
What is Mass Production?
If an immigrant in the 1700s wanted to start a successful tobacco farm, they would settle in this Southern colony.
What is Virginia?
This amendment is the "Equality Rule" that says everyone born in the U.S. is a citizen.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Your "Fairness Shield" that gives you a right to a lawyer, a jury, and a speedy trial.
What is Due Process?
The term for "regional pride" or "regional hate" that led to the Civil War.
What is Sectionalism?
The economic system where you start a business to make a "profit" and "compete" with others.
What is Free Enterprise?
This state tried to "nullify" a tax because they felt their "States' Rights" were being ignored.
What is South Carolina?
This group of "Fixers" in Congress took over the South to protect the rights of former slaves.
What are the Radical Republicans?
The compromise that decided to count 3 out of every 5 enslaved people for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
In 1774, the colonists met at this meeting to protest the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
The South’s economy relied on this system because of its warm climate and fertile soil.
What is the Plantation System?
People moved to Virginia in the 1600s to make money off this specific "Natural Resource.
What is Tobacco?
This era (1865-1877) was all about rebuilding the country after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
We "borrowed" the ideas for our Bill of Rights from this 1689 document from England.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
1803!
"Louisiana Purchase!"
"3 out of 5!"
"Three-Fifths Compromise!"