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- 3. Federalists and anti federalist debated on whether the constitution should be ratified Federalists wrote the what to convince people to support Ratification (2 Words)
- 4. a landmark U.S. law that temporarily settled the debate over slavery's expansion by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining Senate balance, and prohibiting slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36°30' latitude line. (2words)
- 8. was the 19th-century belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. (2 words)
- 10. the first women's rights convention in the U.S. held in Seneca Falls, NY, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, which launched the organized women's rights movement by issuing the Declaration of Sentiments, demanding equality, including the right to vote, and challenging laws that subjugated women, becoming a foundational moment for American feminism and the suffrage movement (2words)
- 13. sought to address the new United States' severe post-Revolutionary War economic problems through a comprehensive plan focused on establishing national credit, creating a stable financial system, and fostering domestic industrial growth. His goal was to bind the states into a strong union and make the new republic an economic powerhouse. (2 words)
- 21. Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declared enslaved people in rebellious Confederate states "then, thenceforward, and forever free," fundamentally changing the Civil War's purpose to include ending slavery, allowing Black men to join the Union Army, and paving the way for the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery nationwide. (2words)
- 26. inherent rights (like life, liberty, and property/pursuit of happiness) believed to belong to all humans by nature, not granted by governments or laws, meaning governments exist to protect them, and if they fail, citizens may have the right to revolt. (2words)
- 28. Invention by Eli Whitney that sped up the process of removing seeds from cotton and increasing the demand of slave labor in the south (2 Words)
- 29. sought to increase by exporting more goods then it imported
- 32. Where did Freedmen mostly work after the civil war? (2Words)
- 37. This amendment made it illegal to prevent citizens of the country from voting in federal elections (2 words)
- 40. Federalists, laws' goal (silencing opposition), the controversy over Free Speech, or specific parts like the Sedition Act, second law to a wartime law allowing detention/deportation of citizens from hostile nations, (3 Words)
- 41. The unofficial British policy of loose enforcement of trade regulations in the American colonies, which fostered colonial self-governance. (2 Words)
- 42. The Great Compromise refers to this plan that added parts of the Virginia and New Jersey plan together. (2 words)
- 43. Lincoln ordered the Emancipation proclamation after this Major victory
- 44. Turning point of the Civil War Lee was defeated and never invaded the North again
- 45. The Railroad and the ______________ increased transportation and Communication
- 46. "What period of time saw increasing conflict and forced relocation between Native American tribes and the United States government, leading to events like the Great Sioux War and the Wounded Knee Massacre?" (3words)
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- 1. a series of violent civil and political confrontations between pro-slavery and anti-slavery (Free-Stater) factions in the Kansas Territory and neighboring Missouri between 1854 and 1861. (2words)
- 2. served as frontier outposts to convert indigenous peoples to Catholicism, assimilate them into Spanish culture. Example ALamo (2 words)
- 5. This faction in the civil war had much less resources then its counterpart
- 6. championed by Stephen Douglas, organized new territories for westward expansion and a potential transcontinental railroad but famously repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery through "popular sovereignty". (3words)
- 7. an economic system where a nation's power depended on its wealth, which
- 9. Their primary goal was to practice their faith without English interference. To create a "pure" church, separate from the perceived corruption of the Church of England.
- 11. a series of four punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party, closing Boston Harbor, altering its government, allowing British officials to be tried elsewhere, and expanding the Quartering Act; these acts, including the related Quebec Act, instead of crushing rebellion, united the colonies in defiance, leading directly to the American Revolution. (2words)
- 12. declared by President James Monroe in 1823, was a U.S. foreign policy stating the Americas are closed to further European colonization and intervention, establishing separate spheres of influence for the Old and New Worlds, and warning European powers that any meddling in the Western Hemisphere would be seen as a hostile act, in exchange for U.S. non-interference in European affairs (2Words)
- 14. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
- 15. Won the 1844 election vs Henry Clay was a big supporter of Texas Annexation (2names 1 Initial)
- 16. "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" are examples of these, per the.... (3 words)
- 17. was a 1,911-mile railroad line completed in 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network with the Pacific coast, revolutionizing travel and commerce. Built by the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads, it dramatically reduced travel time between coasts from months to about a week. (2 words)
- 18. The British with help from colonial Americans defeated the French and gained all of Canada what was this war called? (3words)
- 19. a growing divide between the industrial North and the agricultural, slave-dependent South, leading to increased tensions over issues like slavery, economic policies, and political power
- 20. was a harsh federal law that strengthened slaveholders' rights by requiring citizens and officials in free states to help capture and return escaped enslaved people, denying them due process and imposing heavy penalties for aiding fugitives, which intensified Northern resistance and heightened sectional tensions before the Civil War.
- 22. A Tax on goods from other countries
- 23. was a massive migration sparked by James W. Marshall's gold discovery at Sutter's Mill in January 1848, drawing hundreds of thousands of fortune seekers (called "Forty-Niners") to California by 1849, transforming the region, boosting the U.S. economy, accelerating westward expansion, and leading to rapid population growth. (2 words)
- 24. was a package of five separate bills passed by the U.S. Congress to defuse tensions between free and slave states, admitting California as a free state, establishing popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico territories, settling the Texas boundary, abolishing the slave trade (but not slavery) in D.C., and enacting a stricter Fugitive Slave Act that enraged Northerners, temporarily preserving the Union (2 words)
- 25. At the Constitutional convention this saved the convention from walking out it gave a bicameral system 1house of congress based on population and another based on equal representation (3words)
- 27. Founding Father wrote the pamphlet common sense (2 Names)
- 30. Which faction had the lesser of available resources to win the Civil War?
- 31. This was the Norths Civil War plan to end the war. (2 Words)
- 33. Infrastructure program that connected the great lakes to New York City. Best Describes Henry Clays American System (2words)
- 34. The beginning of the Constitution
- 35. an enslaved man named _________ _________ sued for his freedom after living in free territories, but the Court ruled against him, declaring that Black people, enslaved or free, could not be U.S. citizens and had no right to sue, and that Congress couldn't ban slavery in territories, making the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and escalating tensions leading to the Civil War. (2words)
- 36. Fought for woman's suffrage (2Names1Initial)
- 38. A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives.
- 39. (1865-1877) followed the American Civil War and involved the process of reintegrating the Southern states into the Union and addressing the status and rights of newly freed African Americans.