English document that first guaranteed the right of trial by jury; written in 1215; no taxation without representation for nobles; influenced our Bill of Rights

His ideas of unalienable rights were used by Thomas Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of Independence

Many churches split, people started questioning authority, and became more engaged in religion during the ________.

An African American who rode to New Hampshire to warn that the British were coming during the American Revolution.

Forming a friendship or partnership with another nation 

The Declaration of Independence was written in what year?

He wrote Common Sense to explain why Americans should split from England

If you supported the King, George III, you were called a ________

Leader of the Sons of Liberty and organized the Committees of Correspondence

The Intolerable Acts were passed to punish the colonies for the Boston Massacre.

Crispus Attucks and 4 others were killed here; Revere made a wood carving of it; John Adams defended the British soldiers

Laws passed by Parliament to enforce Mercantilism

Organized to protest the British taxes

Tax on documents and other paper items; direct tax (1765)

Stated that all Americans could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains

Connected New York City to Albany and Buffalo; resulted in increased trade between the Midwest and the Northeast

Invented by Robert Fulton; allowed people to travel upstream; made shipping of crops and manufactured goods cheaper and faster

Invented by Samuel Morse; made possible communication in seconds between regions

Agreement proposed by Henry Clay to keep the number of slave and free states equal

Supreme Court case that stated the national government can regulate interstate trade ( trade between states)

The time period when the U.S. experienced many new inventions, a rise in immigration, and urbanization was called the Industrial Revolution.

The modern political party that began in 1828 as a supporter of Andrew Jackson

The nation's capital - the result of a compromise by Hamilton to get the South to support the paying off of war debts

Proposed a plan to pay off war debts, collect revenue with tariffs, and create a national bank; Secretary of Treasury during Washington's term

Political party led by Hamilton; wanted a strong national government, loose interpretation of the Constitution, and strong ties with England

Washington's advice regarding foreign policy; delivered during his Farewell Address

The year of the Louisiana Purchase; doubled the size of the U.S.; purchased from France for $15 million

To address the problem of "no taxation without representation" in the Constitution of 1787, _____ was given the power to tax citizens

Agricultural inventions such as the reaper and the threshing machine meant that fewer _____ were needed.

Plan that called for two houses in Congress, both based on the states' population; large state plan

The agreement  that called for a Senate of equal representation and a House of Representatives based on population was called the ____________.

He is nicknamed the "Father of the Constitution.

They opposed the ratification of the Constitution unless a Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution

Governor of Virginia; opposed ratification of the Constitution; said "Give me liberty or give me death"

Against means opposed

The first 10 amendments to the Constitution of 1787; guarantee individual rights

Citizens elect representatives to make laws and run the government (principle)

The reason why people quickly moved west in 1849; resulted in a population boom for California

A geographic barrier to westward movement in the 1800's; made moving to the Far West very difficult; reason why the Gadsden Purchase was made

The movement to stop the drinking of alcohol was called temperance

The meeting of women who were fighting for women's rights; rewrote the Declaration of Independence

Published the newspaper called The Liberator

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin; convinced many northerners that slavery was wrong

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth C. Stanton were leaders of this movement

He was nicknamed the Great Compromiser

A westerner who opposed states' rights and proposed the Compromise of 1850 because it helped to preserve the Union

First African American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor

During the ______ the banks closed and the stock market collapsed causing an economic depression; caused Americans to become less interested in Reconstruction

A law that pushed assimilation among Native Americans and almost destroyed their culture

First African American elected to serve as a member of Congress

Congressional Plan was the plan for reconstruction that divided the South into six military districts

Battle that was an important Southern defeat; turning point of the war in the East; Lincoln gave his famous speech here

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on Jan. 1, 1863, and it freed all the slaves.

First battle of the Civil War

President of the Confederate States of America

He became the President of the U.S. in 1860.

Proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act; a Democrat from Illinois who argued that voters in each territory should decide the slavery issue for themselves;  senator from Illinois 

The Supreme Court decision that ruled slaves were property

Gave each state land to sell and use the money to start public colleges teaching agriculture and the mechanical arts

Federal agency created to assist newly freed African Americans with food, clothing, shelter, education, and locating family members

Runaway slave; abolitionist leader who urged Lincoln to pass the Emancipation Proclamation

Amendment that gave ex-slaves (freedmen) U.S. citizenship

Lincoln's speech in 1865; said the war was about slavery and liberty

Wanted to preserve the Union, believed in democracy, liberty, and equality

Union general who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomatox Courthouse