Age of Exploration
The Europeans unknowingly brought these to the New World, resulting in the deaths of millions of American natives.
What are diseases?
William Penn founded this colony.
What is Pennsylvania?
The name for the first shot at Lexington that kicked of the American Revolution.
What is "The Shot Heard Round The World"?
This individual is the head of the executive branch of the government.
What is the president?
Many American generals who fought during the Civil War would gain their first military experience during this war.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This document freed the slaves in all rebelling southern states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Spanish conquered this great indigenous empire in modern day Mexico.
Who are the Aztecs?
This European nation would win the French and Indian War.
What is Great Britain?
The Americans' victory at this battle in Virginia resulted in the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and the end of the war for independence.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Each state gets exactly two of these in Congress.
What are senators?
The Louisiana Territory was purchased by the United States from this nation.
What is France?
The capital of the Confederacy located in Virginia.
What is Richmond?
The Spanish conquered this great indigenous empire in modern day Peru.
Who are the Inca?
The first permanent British settlement in the modern day state of Virginia.
What is Jamestown?
George Washington and the Continental Army would encamp here during the Winter of 1777.
What is Valley Forge?
This branch of the government creates laws.
What is the legislative branch (Congress)?
General Andrew Jackson was responsible for fighting against this group of Native Americans in Florida.
What are the Seminoles (Muskogee)?
This was the first battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
A type of economic model where colonies provided resources for their mother country, which would then turn them into manufactured goods.
What is mercantilism?
British religious reformers who primarily settled in the New England colonies. (I will accept two answers)
What are Puritans? What are separatists?
A type of warfare in which small groups use tactics like sneak attacks against larger armies.
What is guerilla warefare?
The amount of representatives a state gets in the House of Representatives is based on this.
What is population?
The belief that the United States was destined by God to control and subdue all of North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was the bloodiest battle of the war and the last attempt of Robert E. Lee to invade the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
A name for pirates who attacked ships on behalf of a monarch or government.
What are privateers?
This European intellectual movement focused on the "light" of human reason and would eventually inspire American revolutionaries.
What is the Enlightenment?
This treaty officially ended the American War for Independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
The authority of the Supreme Court to determine if laws are constitutional or unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
During the Texas War for Independence, this former Spanish mission in San Antonio would become the sight of a famous loss for the Texans.
What is the Alamo?
After taking the city of Atlanta, Union General William T. Sherman marched south to this coastal city.
What is Savannah?