English Colonies
The first English colony established in the Americas.
What is Jamestown?
Man who warned Patriots "the British are coming."
Who is Paul Revere?
U.S. border after the American Revolution.
What is the Mississippi River?
The issue that separated the United States since its beginning.
What is slavery?
The first state to secede from the Union and the state where the Civil War began.
The place where witch trials were held.
What is Salem?
Who is George Washington?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The political party that said slavery can exist where it already does but it should not spread west.
What is the Free Soil party?
The bloodiest day in U.S. history.
What is Antietam?
The three colonial regions in what became the United States.
What are the Middle, Southern, and New England colonies?
The term used to describe the large majority that were loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution.
Who are the Loyalists?
Term in the U.S. Constitution that describes the power of the government comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
The Supreme Court case that decided no person of African descent could ever be a U.S. citizen.
What is the Dred Scott case?
The place where President Lincoln gave a famous speech that challenges Americans to uphold that "all men are created equal."
What is Gettysburg?
The English colonies greatest European rival.
Document that officially put the unorganized colonies against the greatest military power on Earth.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What Anti-Federalists said they needed included in the Constitution in order to ratify it.
The man who was beaten on the Senate floor for giving "The Crime Against Kansas" speech.
Who is Charles Sumner?
The policy issued by Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam that changed the Civil War into a battle for human rights.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The colony region that was most religiously tolerant.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Document written by Thomas Paine that convinced many colonists to side with the Patriots.
What is Common Sense?
Documents written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, etc. to convince people to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
The term used to describe the unfixable differences between the north and south.
What is irreconcilable?
The site of Confederate surrender.
What is Appomattox Court House?