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US History TAKS #3
McLaughlin/Brown-U.S. History-CHS TAKS Review #3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What year did Columbus discover the new world? | 1492 |
| Jamestown, Virginia, the first successful English colony, was settled in what year? | 1607 |
| The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th of what year? | 1776 |
| What year did our constitution replace the Constitutional Convention & Articles of Confederation? | 1787 |
| What year did the Louisiana Purchase & Lewis and Clark expedition take place? | 1803 |
| taxation without representation - Stamp Act & Colonial protests against British taxes and policies | causes of the American Revolution |
| 1215, British document that limited the power of the king | Magna Carta |
| 1689, British document that gave English citizens certain rights | English Bill of Rights |
| first representative government in the colonies | Virginia House of Burgesses |
| first written constitution in the colonies | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| 1776, Americans listed grievances against King George III of England, declared American colonies to be independent | Declaration of Independence |
| Failed first attempt at a national government. Federal government had very limited power, difficult to pass a law, no president, couldn't tax or raise money | Articles of Confederation |
| Reconstruction led by President Lincoln & then Andrew Johnson, both wanted peace without punishment. Confederates were allowed back into the Union if they pledged loyalty to the Union. | Presidential Reconstruction |
| the republicans in Congress take control of reconstruction; they wanted the South punished; the Southern states are divided into 5 military districts; Southern leaders were disenfranchised | Congressional Reconstruction |
| President of the U.S. at the end of the Civil War, he was assassinated and not able to finish his plan of bringing the South back into the Union | Abraham Lincoln |
| man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln | John Wilkes Boothe |
| Lincoln's vice-resident, he bacame president after Lincoln was Killed; he was impeached by Congress because he was interfering with Congressional Reconstruction | Andrew Johnson |
| Civil War hero that served as U.S. President during reconstruction | Ulysses S. Grant |
| laws passed in the South right after the Civil War; they limited the freedom of ex-slaves | Black Codes |
| organization that helped ex-slaves after the Civil War | Freedmen's Bureau |
| name given to Northerners who came to the South during reconstruction to take advantage of the hard times | Carpetbaggers |
| name given to white Southerners that cooperated with the Reconstruction governments | Scalawags |
| founded in 1866, this organization attempted to stop ex-slaves from gaining equality in the South | Ku Klux Klan |
| a popular system of farming after the Civil War, a farmer worked a piece of land and was paid with a portion of the crop | sharecropping |
| laws passed in the South that segregated the races | Jim Crow laws |
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