Colonial and Revolutionary America
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
The common name for the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This group of advisors, which sound like a piece of office furniture, actually serve as expert advisors to the President and were first established by George Washington.
What is the cabinet?
A land deal made between President Thomas Jefferson and France in 1803, doubling the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This congressman from Illinois, elected as President in 1865, led the United States through the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This founding father was the leader of the Continental Army of American troops who led the Patriots to defeat British forces.
Who is George Washington?
This founding father is credited as the Author or "Father" of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States in this year when he made a giant purchase of land from France.
What is 1803?
A train path crossing the United States from the East Coast to the West Coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This radicalized Confederate sympathizer tried to extend the Civil War by assassinating President Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This founding father is credited as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The system in which one branch of government exercises a measure of control over another branch of government to keep government power limited.
What is checks and balances?
James Madison was president when the United States found themselves in another war with British. The war is referred to as this.
What is the War of 1812?
This war, provoked by President James K. Polk, secured land that would eventually include states such as California, Arizona, and Utah.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This future President served as the Union General to win the Civil War for the Union.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This battle, known as "the shot heard round the world", is considered to be the opening battle of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
The year that the U.S. Constitution was created.
What is 1787?
This set of laws, enforced by President John Adams due to fears over war with France, were a real threat to the freedoms protected by the First Amendment.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This land deal, made with Russian, is often known as "Seward's Folly" and added a northern territory rich with gold and oil which would eventually become this state.
What is Alaska?
The Civil War came to an end when Confederate General Robert E. Lee formally surrendered to Union General Grant at this location.
What is Appomattox Courthouse (Virginia)?
This war, involving British troops coming to the aid of American colonists, is considered an early cause of the American Revolution.
What is the French and Indian War?
The United States government has a bicameral legislative branch. These are its two parts.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
This idea put forth in a State of the Union address by the fifth president stated that the Western Hemisphere should be free from further European Colonization.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1820 compromise, authored by Henry Clay, determined that land north of 36 degrees 30 minutes north latitude would not be settled as slave territories or states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This economic arrangement of tenant farming became a new form of debt slavery during reconstruction.
What is sharecropping?