Amendments/Constitution
Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
13th amendment
This invention by Eli Whitney revolutionized the Southern economy.
The Cotton Gin
This amendment grants citizenship
What is the 14th Amendment?
This phrase, coined in the 1840s, expressed the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the North American continent.
Manifest Destiny
Name the two Armies who fought in the Civil War
The Union and the Confederacy
Name all the parts of the 1st amendment
freedom of press, religion, speech, and assembly
What was the main result of the failure of the Embargo Acts?
War of 1812
This agricultural system replaced slavery in many parts of the South
Sharecropping
This trail, used by thousands of settlers in the mid-1800s, stretched from Missouri to Oregon, and became a major route for westward expansion.
The Oregon Trail
This 1854 act allowed territories to decide the slavery question for themselves
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The "Great Compromise" at the Constitutional Convention was about...
Congressional representation
What was the Purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?
Stop European countries for re-colonizing countries in the Western Hemisphere
There were three plans for Reconstruction - Lincoln's plan, Johnson's and ?
What is the Radical Republican/Congress' plan?
The 1830 law signed by President Andrew Jackson forced thousands of Native Americans to relocate from their ancestral lands to present-day Oklahoma.
The Indian Removal Act
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens:
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This Constitutional principle ensures that no branch of government becomes too powerful.
checks and balances
This doctrine allowed settlers to vote on whether their territory would be free or slave.
Popular Sovereignty
These schools were established to educate former slaves
The Freedmen's Schools
This 1862 act offered 160 acres of public land to settlers who would agree to farm and improve the land for five years.
The Homestead Act
Lincoln delivered this famous speech at the dedication of a military cemetery
The Gettysburg Address
What term would be used to describe the shared powers of the federal and state governments?
Federalism
This 1859 raid on a federal armory was meant to spark a slave rebellion.
Harper's Ferry
This federal agency was established in 1865 to aid freed slaves and poor whites in the South.
the Freedmen's Bureau
forced relocation of Cherokee Indians resulted in approximately 4,000 deaths
The Trail of Tears
These laws, passed by Southern states after the war, restricted freed slaves' rights
The Black Codes