Columbian Exchange
A big swap of food, people, animals, sicknesses, etc. between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The belief that Americans were meant to expand westward
What is Manifest Destiny?
Gave the "I Have a Dream" speech and lead peaceful protests.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
A document that said the American colonies were free from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The time period after the Civil war focused on rebuilding the South and helping people who used to be slaves.
What is Reconstruction?
Europeans brought this disease to the Americas; it killed many Native Americans.
What is smallpox?
Treaty that ended the Mexican American War in 1848.
What is the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A case from 1954 where the Supreme Court said schools could not be segregated by race.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The main writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The amendment that ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
This vegetable was very important to animals and people in the Old World and New World
What is corn/maize?
This president is most associated with Manifest Destiny
Who is James K. Polk?
Refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery and helped to start a bus boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
A battle that was the first real fight of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
A group that was created to help people that were formerly enslaved with food, jobs, an education.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This was a negative result of the Columbian Exchange for the Native Americans.
This land acquisition happened after the annexation of Texas.
What is the Mexican Cession?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
What is France?
A group that used violence to stop African Americans from voting and gaining rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
An addictive crop from the Americas that was a major product in Europe.
What is tobacco?
This political group didn't support expanding the country; they were worried it would lead to more slavery.
Who were the Whigs?
A peaceful protest from 1963 that brought over 200,000 people to Washington, D.C.
What is the March on Washington?
Colonists dumped British tea into the harbor to protest against taxes.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Laws that were passed in the South to limit the rights of American Americans from voting and gaining rights.
What are black codes?