Unit 1 Test Review

Colonies

100

The first permanent ENGLISH settlement in the Americas 

Jamestown

200

The ideas of the Declaration can be attributed to this Enlightenment thinker.

John Locke

300

King George III thought this group should pay for the French and Indian War

Colonist

400

This event occurred in Boston and ended up killing five colonist and was used as propaganda to spread anger against the British.

Boston Massacre

500

This was Britain's Response to the Boston Tea Party

Intolerable Acts

Revolution

100

The violent group that forced boycotts of British goods

Sons of Liberty

200

Wrote the essay Common Sense to inpire the movement of the war.

Thomas Paine

300

The turning point of the Revolution.

Battle of Saratoga

400

This is known as the "shot heard round the world" that started the American Revolution.

Lexington and Concord

500

He drafted the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson

Government

100

The first governing document in the United States

Articles of Confederation

200

The US federal government has this many branches.

3

300

This Group supported a strong central government and the Constitution.

Federalist

400

The US Congress is split into these two houses (Bicameral)

House of Representatives (435) and the Senate (100)

500

This Branch of government determines the constitutionality of laws.

Judicial Branch

Civil War

100

This supreme court decision said that blacks were not entitled to any rights under the Constitution.

Dred Scott case

200

Whose primary goal was to preserve the Union and keep it together at the beginning of the war?

The North (Lincoln)

300

This lose of the siege, split the Confederacy into two, gave the Union control over the Mississippi and was the beginning to the end of the Confederacy.

Vicksburg

400

Was the singe bloodiest day in American history and prompted Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

Battle of Antietam

500

One of the greatest weaknesses of the the Union at the start of the Civil War

Experienced (better) generals

Reconstruction Era

100

This Amendment ended slavery under Constitutional law.

13th Amendment

200

These laws were enacted to limit the rights of African Americans.

Black Codes

300

This amendment establishes rights and guarantees equal protection of the laws regardless of color,

14th Amendment

400

This amendment gave adult black MALES the right to vote in the U.S.

15th Amendment

500

The promise to set up formally enslaved blacks for economic success that was not carried through by President Andrew Johnson.

40 Acres and a Mule