Slavery
declared all enslaved people in rebellious states to be free
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Acts passed by British Parliament meant to punish the Massachusetts colony.
This tribe attempted to assimilate by creating an alphabet, publishing a newspaper, and having its own constitution.
What were the Cherokee?
the event that caused Southern states to begin seceding
What was the presidential election of 1860?
A network of people that helped enslaved persons to freedom.
What was the underground railroad?
Coerced laborers that did an increasingly large portion of the agricultural labor
What were black African slaves?
A public document that formally announced the reasons for the Thirteen Colonies’ split from Great Britain in 1776.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
US Act that forcibly moved Native Americans West of the Mississippi.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
The Southern States were know as the _____________.
What was the Confederates?
A woman who helped 70 enslaved persons to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The reason slavery was important to the Southern States.
What was free labor to work large plantations?
The effective law of the United States and its government from 1789-present.
What is the US Constitution?
The forced march of 60,000 indigenous people to relocate West of Mississippi.
What was the trail of tears?
The Northern States were called ______________
What was the Union?
A 10 year period right after the Civil War where the country tried to integrate previous enslaved persons.
What was Reconstitution?
A case in which the Court decided that slaves who were descendants of American slaves were not citizens of the United States
What was Dred Scott Decision?
The first government of the US that was too weak to be effective.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
The idea that it was the destiny of the US to occupy the land from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans.
What is Manifest Destiny?
a military campaign in which Union forces moved from Atlanta to Savannah using the scorched Earth tactic
What was Sherman's march?
Laws in the South that limited black movement and segregated blacks from whites.
What were the black codes and Jim Crow laws?
An Act that made runaway slaves and those who helped them can be arrested and charged.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
The main reason the colonist wanted independence from Britain.
What was taxation without representation?
Three reasons that US justified removal of Native Americans.
What was they are uncivilized, they are uneducated and that they should be happy with land they are given?
a guaranteed constitutional right that both Lincoln and later Congress suspended during the American Civil War
What was habeas corpus?
The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments that abolished slavery, gave citizenship and gave the right to vote to previous enslaved persons.
What were the Reconstruction Amendments?