American Revolution
This four-word slogan became the calling card for rebelling colonists during throughout the Revolution.
What is "No taxation without representation?"
This essential collection of 10 Amendments to the United States Constitution guarantees freedoms to all Americans.
What is The Bill of Rights?
This massive deal to double the size of the United States only cost President Thomas Jefferson $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This network of secret tunnels, shelter, and passages helped thousands of slaves escape to the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated just days after the end of the Civil War, this man took control of the office.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This act of rebellion against a British tax on a certain beverage took place mere miles away from Milton High School.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
This agreement was crucial in determining how slaves would be factored into a state's population count.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This event saw hundreds of thousand of people travel to the West Coast in search for wealth in 1849.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This order from President Abraham Lincoln officially ended slavery throughout the United States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This federally funded group provided aid and support to newly freed Black citizens of the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
These colonists were against the ideas of the Revolution, and preferred to remain citizens living under British rule.
What are loyalists?
This term describes the system put in place to make sure one branch of American government doesn't gain too much power.
What are checks and balances?
This event saw the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans from the southeast to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This event saw a former slave unify other enslaved people and kill around 60 white people.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
This key court case established legalized segregation throughout the United States under the "separate but equal" philosophy.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The colonists were most upset in the 1760s that the British were taxing them in the aftermath of this war.
What is the Seven Years War/French and Indian War?
This political party fiercely promoted the benefits of a strong national government during the creation of the Constitution.
What are the Federalists?
This term, coined in the 19th century, describes the United States' "God-given right" to expand across the continent.
What is manifest destiny?
This event was an immediate cause for the South to secede from the Union due to their perceived lack of representation in the political process.
What is the Election of 1860?
This set of laws was designed to limit the rights of Black Americans after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This 1781 battle is remembered as the decisive turning point that signaled the colonists' victory in the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This is the right granted to American citizens in the 2nd Amendment.
What is the right to bear arms?
This proposed system of determining the issue of slavery within newly admitted states involved a vote amongst the citizens.
What is popular sovereignty?
This Union General marched through the South during the Civil War, destroying cities and farms along the way.
Who is William T. Sherman?
This agreement resulted in Rutherford B. Hayes becoming president of the United States in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops in the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?