Benchmark 2 Review (US History)

An amendment to the United States Constitution ratified in 1870 that prohibited the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

• First Amendment
• Fifteenth Amendment
• Thirteenth Amendment
• Nineteenth Amendment

A federal agency established in 1865 to assist newly freed African Americans in the South. It provided food, clothing, education, and other forms of support to help them transition to freedom.

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Underground Railroad
• Jim Crow Laws

A major battle fought during the American Civil War in July 1863 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was a turning point in the war, with the Union victory halting Confederate advances into the North.

• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of Vicksburg

An unsuccessful raid led by THIS abolitionist in 1859 on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia). The goal was to incite a slave rebellion, but he was captured and later executed.

• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington
• Abraham Lincoln
• John Brown

A series of legislative measures passed by Congress to address the issue of slavery in the newly acquired territories from the Mexican-American War. It included provisions such as the admission of California as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Compromise of 1850
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Missouri Compromise

The belief or doctrine that the United States was destined to expand its territory across the North American continent. It was a driving force behind westward expansion in the 19th century.

• Manifest Destiny
• Secession
• Isolationism
• Imperialism

A social movement that advocated for the moderation or elimination of alcohol consumption. It gained significant traction in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

• sobriety movement
• prohibition movement
• abstinence movement
• temperance movement

An amendment to the United States Constitution ratified in 1865 that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• Emancipation Proclamation
• 13th Amendment

The first elected legislative assembly in the American colonies, established in Virginia in 1619. It served as a model for representative government in the colonies.

• Continental Congress
• Stamp Act Congress
• House of Burgesses
• Mayflower Compact

A system of trade during the colonial era that involved the exchange of goods between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. It included the transportation of enslaved Africans to the Americas.

• Transatlantic Trade
• Triangular Trade
• Colonial Exchange
• Atlantic Exchange