Revolutionary Era
Major cause of the American Revolution
What is Taxation without Representation?
Favored ratification of the US Constitution
What is a Federalist?
Purchase of land that doubled the size of the US in 1803
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Three causes of the Civil War
What is Slavery, States Rights, and Sectionalism?
Amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
Three examples of Unalienable Rights
What is Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
Father of the US Constitution?
Who is James Madison?
Farmers staged this rebellion against a government tax on whiskey and grain
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
Presidential decree that declared enslaved people in the Confederate states free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Laws passed in the South to limit the opportunities of African Americans
What are the Black Codes?
1st battles of the American revolution
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
Three out of every five slaves would be counted when determining a states total population for legislative representation and taxation
Supreme Court ruling that established judicial review
What is Marbury Vs. Madison?
Turning point of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Provided basic necessities to newly freed slaves
What is the Freemen's Bureau?
Declaration that forbade colonists from settling West of the Appalachian Mountains
What is Proclamation of 1763?
Signed in 1215; limited the power of the King resulting in the idea of constitutional limits to the power of the central government.
What is the Magna Carta?
Prohibited Americans from trading with foreign nations in 1807
What is the Embargo Act?
Battle in which the North took control of the Mississippi River
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
Laws passed enforcing racial segregation
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
Leader of the Sons of Liberty and a key organizer of the Boston Tea Party
Who is Samuel Adams?
The Great Compromise
What is the Virginia Plan + New Jersey Plan?
French seized American ships to prevent Americans from trading with the British
What is the XYZ Affair?
Supreme Confederate General during the Civil War
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Military occupation of southern states; strict guidelines on representation and requirements for readmission to the Union
What is the Reconstruction Act?