THE FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISH SETTLEMENT, WAS FOUNDED IN 1607.
What is JAMESTOWN
100
THIS WAS THE SITE OF THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
What is CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS?
100
THE SMALL TOWN IN VIRGINIA WHERE ROBERT E. LEE SURRENDERED THE CONFEDERATE ARMY TO ULYSSES S. GRANT ENDING THE CIVIL WAR.
What is APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE?
100
THE BELIEF THAT THE UNITED STATES SHOULD OWN ALL OF THE LAND BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS.
What is MANIFEST DESTINY?
100
A NATION IN WHICH VOTERS CHOOSE REPRESENTATIVE TO GOVERN THEM.
What is REPUBLIC?
200
WAS SIGNED ON JULY 4, 1776.
What is THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE?
200
THIS WAS THE TURNING POINT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
What is THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA?
200
THIS IS AN ECONOMIC THEORY THAT A COUNTRY'S STRENGTH IS MEASURED BY THE AMOUNT OF GOLD IT HAS, THAT A COUNTRY SHOULD SELL MORE THAN IT BUYS AND THAT THE COLONIES EXIST FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MOTHER COUNTRY.
What is MERCANTILISM?
200
MONARCHS INHERIT THEIR CROWNS AND HAVE SYMBOLIC ROLE. RULE BY ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES. PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. ALL CITIZENS EQUAL BEFORE LAW.
What is CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY?
300
PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON PURCHASED IT FROM FRANCE IN 1803.
What is LOUISIANA TERRITORY
300
THE BRITISH DEFEAT AT THIS VIRGINIA TOWN BY GEORGE WASHINGTON'S TROOPS SIGNALED THE END OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
What is WHAT IS YORKTOWN?
300
A PERSON WHO WANTED TO END SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES.
What is AN ABOLITIONIST?
300
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE SALE OR DRINKING OF ALCOHOL.
What is THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT?
300
MONARCH RULES BY DIVINE RIGHT AND HAS ABSOLUTE POWER. VERY FEW INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. MONARCH NOT SUBJECT TO LAW.
What is ABSOLUTE MONARCHY?
400
THE FIRST SHOTS WERE FIRED AT LEXINGTON MASSACHUSETTS IN APRIL 1775.
What is THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION?
400
THIS IS WHERE THE FIRST SHOTS OF THE CIVIL WAR WER FIRED.
What is FORT SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA?
400
A TAX PLACED ON GOODS FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY TO PROTECT THE HOME INDUSTRY.
What is A PROTECTIVE TARIFF?
400
A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN WHICH VOTERS ELECT REPRESENTATIVES TO MAKE LAWS FOR THEM.
What is REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT?
400
RULE BY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS DO NOT EXIST. RULER ABOVE THE LAW.
What is DICTATORSHIP?
500
THE CAPTURE OF THIS MISSISSIPPI CITY BY THE NORTH IN 1863, EFFECTIVELY SPLIT THE CONFEDERACY IN TWO AND GAVE CONTROL OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO THE UNION.
What is VICKSBURG?
500
THIS BATTLE WAS THE TURNING POINT IN THE CIVIL WAR FOR THE NORTH.
What is GETTYSBURG?
500
THIS IS A STRONG SENSE OF LOYALTY TO A STATE OR SECTION INSTEAD OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
What is SECTIONALISM?
500
POWER COMES FROM THE PEOPLE WHO ELECT LEADERS & LAWMAKERS. PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. ALL CITIZENS EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW.
What is DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC?
500
RULE BY SMALL GROUP NOT ELECTED BY PEOPLE. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS DO NOT EXIST.