Early Republic
What year was the Louisiana Purchase?
1803
What documents created our government?
Constitution
What was the first English settlement in the New World?
Jamestown
Abraham Lincoln
Who won the Civil War?
The North
Who was our first president?
Washington
What was the compromise that created the Senate and the House of Representatives called?
The Great Compromise
What document was the first version of self-government in North America?
Mayflower Compact
What did the Southern states that succeeded call themselves? (country name)
Confederate States of America
What amendment abolished slavery?
13th Amendment
What act did John Adams put into place? (limited first amendment freedoms)
Alien and Sedition Acts
How many amendments does the Bill of Rights have?
10
Ideas of Independence
What is the support for a region of a country rather then the whole country called?
Sectionalism
What amendment gave voting rights to all men no matter race?
15th Amendment
What was a challenge of the new republic?
Pay off revolutionary war debts
What was the document that FIRST attempted to create a government (it would fail)?
Articles of Confederation
Which colonies were known for fertile soil and long growing periods? (New England, Middle, or Southern)
Southern
What was the first battle of the Civil war?
What were the laws that southern states passed to limit the freedom of African Americans?
Black Codes
What was the supreme court case that established the precedent that the federal government is supreme.
McCulloch v Maryland
Name one of the seven principles in the Constitution.
Individual liberties, republicanism, popular sovereignty, limited government, separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism
What was the first elected Assembly in the New World?
Virginia House of Burgesses
Where did the surrender of the South happen?
What ended Reconstruction?
The election of Rutherford B. Hayes and the removal of Republican troops in the South