Lead up to the Revolution (Colonial Life)
This is the number of original English colonies that declared independence and became part of the United States.
What is 13?
This was the General of the colonial forces.
Who was George Washington?
This man was a famous Federalist that became the center of a Broadway musical created by Lin Manuel Miranda.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
This is the term to describe the United States expanding westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This is the largest and bloodiest battle in United States history.
What was Gettysburg?
This is the colony that provided a buffer between English colonies and Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
This was the event that killed the first colonists in the American Revolution.
What was The Boston Massacre?
The number of senators each state receives in the Senate.
What is 2?
This Native American fought the British and Americans over land in Michigan and died in the War of 1812.
Who was Tecumseh?
After this battle, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
This was the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States.
What is Jamestown?
This event led to the Intolerable Acts because of the destruction to a specific British good.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The state that refused to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
What is Rhode Island?
This group settled Utah for religious freedom.
Who were the Mormons?
This was the first President to be impeached during Reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The colony settled by Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This pamphlet (written by Thomas Paine) was the most widely distributed piece of writing in colonial times.
What is Common Sense.
The three main compromises the Constitutional Convention made.
What are the Great Compromise, the 3/5 Compromise, and the Electoral College?
The President who "removed" the Cherokee from Georgia.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
The election of this President ended Reconstruction.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
The only colony to have a "Black Majority."
What is South Carolina?
How did the American colonists defeat the British in the Revolution?
What are home field advantage, guerrilla tactics, and better leadership?
The two Englishmen who influenced the writers of the Constitution with contrary ideas about human nature and government.
Who were Thomas Hobbes and John Locke?
A famous artist who painted a newly American style of art using birds.
Who was John James Audubon?
This Supreme Court case ended legal segregation.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?