Foundations of Government
This plan resolved representation in Congress by creating both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is the Great Compromise?
In 1803, the U.S. doubled its size with this land purchase.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This act forced Northerners to return escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
This 1865 amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This system prevents one branch of government from gaining too much power.
What are checks and balances?
This doctrine warned Europe not to interfere in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This idea let people in a territory vote on slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Under this early government framework, the national government was weak and could not tax.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This belief justified westward expansion as the nation’s destiny.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The South seceded after this man was elected president in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
After Bull Run, the North realized it needed to do this.
What is prepare for a long war?
This amendment gave citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This English philosopher inspired America’s founding with his idea of natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U.S. land in the Southwest.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This invention boosted cotton production but also increased slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
This Union victory gave the North control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This compromise ended Reconstruction and gave the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This type of government divides power between national and state governments.
What is a federal system of government?
The Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act all tried to maintain this balance.
What is the balance between free states and slave states?
This 1854 law divided the Nebraska Territory and led to violence in “Bleeding Kansas.”
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This battle was a turning point because the South never again invaded the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and set a line dividing future territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?