American Revolution
This war left Britain in debt and led to taxes in the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
The purchase that doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A secret network of escape routes used by enslaved people
What is the Underground Railroad?
The first battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
These states allowed slavery but stayed loyal to the Union.
What are/is the border states?
Colonists claimed Britain had no right to tax them because they lacked this in Parliament.
What is representation?
This runaway slave led abolitionist in America. He also wrote autobiographies boosting the abolition cause.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
She helped enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This 1777 battle convinced France to join the war.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Basic rights belonging to people such as life, liberty, and property.
What are natural rights?
Britain passed these acts in response to the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
This document asserted that the monarchies of Europe had no business meddling with the American Republics including those in Latin America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This document was issued by Abraham Lincoln to freed enslaved people in Confederate territory.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The first major battle, showing the colonists could stand up to the British.
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
A farming system where freedmen rented land and paid with a portion of their crops.
What is sharecropping?
King George III enacted this to restrict colonists settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This act forced thousands of Native Americans off their ancestral lands leading to the Trail of Tears and widespread suffering/death.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
This was the biggest cause that led to the Civil War between the Union and the Confederacy.
What is slavery?
The bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This government bureau tried to help freedmen adjust to life after slavery by providing food, schools, and jobs.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
It was a result of this meeting that colonists started to prepare for war with the British Empire feeling that it was inevitable at this point.
What is the First Continental Congress Meeting?
This _________ supported tariffs to protect their industry while this ____________ opposed them because they relied on imported goods.
What is the North and the South?
Southern states seceded from the Union following this event in 1860.
What is the Election of 1860?
The Union victory in July 1963 that gave control of the Mississippi River.
What was the Siege of Vicksburg?
This early Union strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and cut off supplies.
What is the Anaconda Plan?