Early US History 1
Group of department heads who advise the president
What is the cabinet?
State where you will find Baton Rouge
What is Louisiana?
This state is located in the far Northwest corner of the continental United States
What is Washington?
The number of original colonies
What is 13?
They explored the Louisiana Territory
Who are Lewis and Clark?
The term for a US President
What is 4 years?
A tariff
What is a tax on imported goods?
The most famous route people traveled to move west
What is the Oregon Trail?
This branch interprets the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This was the border for the United States in 1803, before westward expansion began
What is the Mississippi River?
The exact date the Declaration of Independence was written
July 4th, 1776
The first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
This branch enforces the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
The third president of the United States
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
19th century belief that God wanted the U.S. to move westward to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
These 2 houses, or parts, make up the Legislative Branch
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
Original three regions of the colonies
What are the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies
The term of a Supreme Court Justice
What is life?
Known as the Supreme Law of the Land
What is the Constitution?
This many U.S. States were made from land in the Louisiana Purchase
What is 13?
This event proved that the Articles of Confederation was a weak document that needed to be changed
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This branch makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
I'm the man who shot Alexander Hamilton
Who is Aaron Burr?
Name of the river than runs down the Louisiana territory
What is the Mississippi River?
France sold the U.S. the Louisiana Territory for this reason
What is money for war?