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African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law. Plessy’s argument was that his constitutional rights were violated.

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A slave that sued his owner for his freedom, but did not succeed.

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16th P.O.T.U.S., freed slaves.

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A former slave that freed hundreds of other slaves while working with the underground railroad.

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John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. His court opinions helped lay the basis for United States constitutional law.

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Author of the Constitution, fourth P.O.T.U.S.

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Third P.O.T.U.S.,author of the Declaration of Independence.

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One of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".

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The first person to dream of a colony in America where Catholics and Protestants could prosper together

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The practice of segregating black people in the US.

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A tax that was paid in order to vote.

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A U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freedmen, (freed slaves) in the South during the Reconstruction era.

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Allowed former slaves to vote.

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Freed slaves.

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Ill-leagalized slavery.

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The rebuilding of the south after the civil war.

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A decree that made all current slaves free citizens.

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To get rid of a system or movement.

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A Protestant religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States.

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The belief that it was a god given right to expand america.

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A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a religion founded in the US in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr.

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As part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.

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A principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.

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A purchase of land between France and the U.S in 180

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The principle that congress can review a law and deem it "unconstitutional'.

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the clause in the First Amendment of the US Constitution that prohibits the establishment of religion by Congress.

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Expresses your right of the first amendment.

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A document in the constitution stating some of the people's base rights

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The federalism principle of the government

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Those that opposed the constitution before the bill of rights was added, in fear that the government would gain too much power.

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Those that supported the constitution before the bill of rights was added.

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was an agreement that large and small states reached, splitting congress into two branches, the house of senate, and the house of Representatives.

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The document that came before the constitution, but was discarded due to lack of balance between state and federal power.

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The belief that all men are born with certain laws : Life,Liberty,and Property

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A document, written by Thomas Jefferson, declaring the 13 American colonies, Independent and no longer under the control of Britain

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A war for the independence of the American colonies. Fought by Britain and the Colonists, took place through 1765-1783

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An organization of american colonists that fought to protect the rights of the colonists.

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a war between Britain and France, also known as the Seven Years War, lasted through 1754-1763, and nearly doubled Britain's land in North America.

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An enlightenment idea that suggested breaking up the government into three branches, each having an equal amount of power, and each would be able to put the other in check.

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A period in Europe where people began to think for themselves, and question authority.