American Revolution
What is the name of the event depicted in Paul Revere's engraving?
Boston Massacre
Which president purchased the Louisiana Purchase?
Thomas Jefferson
Who won the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Why were the Jim Crow Laws created?
to separate the races
What is a primary source?
The following quote is from which famous historical document?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident:-that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Declaration of Independence
American expansion is good and bound to happen. The western territories are promised by God to the white American settlers.
What was radical abolitionist John Brown’s approach to trying to end slavery?
Killing slave owners and creating a slave rebellion
What did the Emancipation Proclamation actually do?
Freed slaves in the Confederate territories not under Union control
What was the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1857 Dred Scott decision
Black Americans were not considered citizens of the U.S.
What did the American colonists argue about Great Britain’s right to tax the colonies?
It could be done if colonists elected representatives to the Parliament
What impact did the events pictured in the painting American Progress have on American Indian societies?
It resulted in the further push of native peoples onto reservations
List advantages that the North had at the start of the American Civil War.
more food, better transportation system, established central government and navy & more people
what were some of the south's advantages during the civil war?
they were fighting a defensive war, the South had better military leaders and strategists, the Southern soldiers were fighting on their own soil
What was the major focus of the Seneca Falls Convention held in New York in 1848?
Women's Rights
What did the Common Sense Pamphlet argue?
that America would be stronger if freed from British control
What was the The Dawes Act?
It tried to assimilate or Americanize American Indians
Which piece of legislation further antagonized (made worse) the relationship between the North and the South?
The Kansas-Nebraska Acts
What was Lincoln's primary goal during the war?
to keep the country together/to preserve the union
What were the outcomes of the wounded knee massacre?
Many American Indian women and children were massacred
Wounded Knee marked the end of the major armed Indian resistance to reservation life
Wounded Knee became a tragic symbol of U.S.-Indian interactions during the 1800s
What event resulted in a decreased reliance on indentured servants and an increased reliance on African slaves?
Bacon's Rebellion
What was President Jackson's opinion of the Bank of the United States?
He felt that a national bank would have a corrupting influence on Congress.
Why was Uncle Tom's Cabin significant during the Antebellum period in the U.S .?
It described the terrible conditions of slavery
What was the purpose of the poll tax, literacy test, and grandfather clause
to deny former slaves voting rights
What was the fight over the admission of Missouri to the Union about?
There was concern because Missouri's admission would disrupt the balance between free and slave states in the Senate