| A | B |
| Amendment 14 | Gave citizenship to former slaves |
| Amendment 15 | gave former slaves right to vote |
| Mayflower Compact | First original democracy document in what is now Massachusetts |
| Missouri Compromise | a line drawn across territory in Louisiana Purchase which said all new states above line were free of slavery |
| Nat Turner's revolt | After this, fear of violence increased among white population of South |
| Compromise of 1850 | California became a free state; passage of Fugitive Slave Law; no slaves allowed in DC; popular soverignty |
| The Intolerable Act | Closed harbor of Boston after Boston Tea Party |
| Yorktown | last battle of American Revolution |