Road to the Revolution
The Revolutionary War
The first 3 words of the Preamble of the Constitution.
We the People...
The name given to the idea that God predetermined that the United States would control all lands West of the Mississippi River.
Manifest Destiny
What abolitionists wanted most.
The end of slavery
This woman was a conductor on the underground railroad, a Civil War spy for the Union Army, a Civil War nurse, and a caregiver.
Harriet Tubman
The act of protest over the Tea Act enacted by Great Britain to save the East India Tea Company.
The Boston Tea Party
The number of branches listed in our Constitution designed to prevent tyranny.
3
The name given when President Jefferson was able to purchase land West of the Mississippi from France.
The Louisiana Purchase
This reform movement included famous individuals such as Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Grimke sisters, and Lucretia Mott.
The movement for equal rights for women.
The Constitution gives the power of the government to whom?
The People of the United States of America.
The name of the event give by the Sons of Liberty designed to enrage the public over the shooting of American colonists by British soldiers.
The Boston Massacre
The name of the system of powers given to each branch in order to prevent tyranny.
The name of the General that would eventually become President who marched into Florida without the President's permission and took over Spanish military posts.
Andrew Jackson
The economy of the North favored industry while the economy of the South was centered around this type of work.
Agriculture
The name of the war that ended slavery.
The Civil War
The first law that resulted from the French and Indian war that prohibited Colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Proclamation of 1763
The name given to the 1st ten amendments to the Constitution.
The Bill of Rights.
The name of the president who believed in Manifest Destiny and was looked upon by abolitionists and others as greedy and in it for his own glory.
President James K. Polk
This invention made cotton a very profitable crop while unintentionally increasing the demand for slavery.
The cotton gin
This Amendment to the Constitution provides freedom of speech, religion, the press, to petition the government, and to peaceably assemble.
The 1st Amendment.
The Declaration of Independence.
The name given to the system that provides some power to the national government while preserving other powers for the state governments.
Federalism
The name given to the group of people who rushed to San Francisco to find gold.
The 49'ers
The name of the man who was an escaped slave, became an abolitionist and women's suffragist. He was a trusted person to Abraham Lincoln whom he shaped Lincoln's thinking on slavery. He was also the most photographed American in the 1800's.
Fredrick Douglass
The term used to describe how people try to understand different points of view from different time periods in history in order to make sense of the decisions that were made.
Historical empathy