Lifestyle
This invention allowed instantaneous communication for the first time in human history in 1844
telegraph
What are the 3 branches of government created by the Constitution and what do they do?
Legislative: makes the laws
Judicial: judges the laws
Executive: enforces the laws
In order to pay for the Civil War, the Union instituted a tax on this which took a percentage of every workers income.
Income Tax
The fighting of this war made the US an independent country.
The American Revolution
The first president of the US.
George Washington
This is the idea that America was ordained by God to control everything between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Manifest Destiny
This invention from 1793 caused the expansion of slavery in the US.
Cotton Gin
What Constitutional Amendments are known as the Civil War or reconstruction amendments?
Double points if you correctly label what they do.
13. abolishes slavery
14. grants citizenship
15. grants suffrage to all male citizens
This Westward Expansion law created a buddy system to and geographic limits on where slavery was allowed to spread in the Louisiana Territory.
Missouri Compromise
Sometimes called the second war for independence, this war between the US and England largely started because of the impressment of US sailors.
The War of 1812
He was the President of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
This canal, initially started by the French and completed by the US, allows you to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
This was the first widely owned car and completely revolutionized US society.
Ford Model T
This is the term for the group of the presidents advisors. George Washington only had 3, but modern presidents have closer to 20.
cabinet
This was the first law to prevent monopolies in the US.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This brilliant Confederate General led the South's war effort and was also the man who surrendered after his starving troops received a supply train of weapons instead of food.
Robert E. Lee
This president served as a general during the Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant
What are the 3 reasons countries imperialize others?
military strength, thirst for new markets, and a belief in cultural superiority
This Reconstruction era institution's job was to help former slaves integrate into free American society.
Freedman's Bureau
This amendment grants women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
After the US government ran out of west, what was their policy towards Native Americans?
Assimilation
This "war" is actually an extended series of various conflicts between the US government and the same enemy. Almost every encounter results in a US victory.
Indian Wars
He was the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis
The Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown by American farmers growing this.
sugar
This invention ended the cowboy era.
barbed wire
This Constitutional Crisis started by Vice President John C. Calhoun occurred because he told South Carolina that they did not have to follow laws they did not like.
Nullification Crisis
Name two LEGAL ways states banned African Americans from voting.
Poll Tax & Literacy Tests
This war, fought in 1898, resulted in the U.S. gaining control of territories such as Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
Spanish-American War
This president was the first to be impeached. He tried to bring back slavery.
Andrew Johnson
This secretary of state bought Alaska from Russia... even though everyone said he was crazy.
William Seward