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This colony was the first successful English settlement in the New World
What is Jamestown?
The first American constitution that created a weak federal government and strong state governments
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The agreement made when writing the Constitution where representation was based on population in the House and equal representation in the Senate.
What is the Great Compromise?
Commercial activities such as trading, shipping, and fishing were prominent in the ____________ colonies
What are the Northern colonies?
Most of the people who insisted on the addition of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution to ensure basic liberties were protected and the national government would not lead to tyranny were considered__________________
Who are Anti- Federalists?
Under the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and this state was admitted as free state.
What is Maine?
Under the Compromise of 1850, this western state was admitted to the Union as a free state
What is California?
This was Lincoln’s goal throughout the course of the Civil War
What is to preserve the union?
This amendment banned slavery in the United States
What is the 13 th amendment?
This organization was created to help newly freed slaves in the South
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This government policy provided free land to interested Americans who had to live on the land for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
This process allowed steel to be produced cheaper and more efficiently
What is the Bessemer Process?
The men John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt are often known as
What are robber barons?
Laws the legally segregated African Americans
What are Jim Crow Laws?
In this Supreme Court decision, the court decide to uphold the establishment of a 10 hour work day
What is Muller v. Oregon?
This amendment to the constitution prohibited the distribution and manufacturing of alcohol
What is the 18 th amendment?
Journalists and artists who used their work to spark discussions of the ills they saw in society.
Who are muckrakers?
This novel sparked an investigation into the meatpacking industry
What is The Jungle?
This amendment granted suffrage to women
What is the 19 th Amendment?
Under this proposal by Theodore Roosevelt’s workers, business owners, and consumers should all be treated equallly
What is the Square Deal?
The U.S. bought this territory from Russia
What is Russia?
This battleship was reportedly destroyed by the Spanish in Cuba and this event sparked the Spanish American War
What is the USS Maine?
This addition to the Monroe Doctrine proclaimed that America would intervene in Latin American affairs
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The alliance system America joined when entering WWI
What is the Triple Entente Allied Powers?
The name of the treaty that ended WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Make your wager
The name given to Southerners who supported Reconstruction
Who are scalawags?