Who Am I
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe.
A Congressional Act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived East of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act.
The governing body of a nation, state, or community.
What is government.
A change to the United States Constitution.
What is an Amendment.
The right of citizenship and equality under the law.
What is Civil Rights.
Abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became and influential writer and lecturer in the North.
Who is Fredrick Douglas.
An act passed by the British parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American Colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required of all newspaper and legal or commercial documents.
What is the Stamp Act.
The lower house or Congress consisting of a different number of representatives from each state depending on population.
What is House of Representatives.
Prohibited voting restrictions based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery).
What is the 15th Amendment.
Era during United States History after the Civil War when the nation was rebuilt.
What is reconstruction.
Seventh President of the United States. He opposed the bank of America, objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable Federal laws and increased President powers.
Who is Andrew Jackson.
A law that made it a crime to help runaway enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act.
The law making body of the British government.
What is Parliament.
Citizenship, due process, equal protection to all people born in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment.
The right of an arrested individual to appear before a court to determine if his imprisonment is illegal.
What is Habeas Corpus.
16th president of the United States. Saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated people in states in rebellion against the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
A law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies.
What is the Sugar Act.
The branch of government that makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch.
Abolishes and prohibits slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment.
A notion held by 19th century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny.
"Father of the Constitution", Federalist leader and fourth president of the United States.
Who is James Madison.
Four British Acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three ships loads of tea. Known in America as the Intolerable Acts.
What is the Coercive Acts.
The branch of government that carries out laws (the President and his Cabinet).
What is Executive Branch.
Allowed for Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state maintaining the balance of power in the Senate.
What is the Compromise of 1820 (Missouri Compromise).
The unofficial policy of the British Parliament to not monitor or tax the British American colonies heavily.
What is Salutary Neglect.