Colonial America
This colony was founded by Pilgrims in 1620.
What is Plymouth Colony?
This document declared independence in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
President during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The document signed on the Mayflower established self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The famous protest where colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
3 Branches of the U.S. government
What are the Judicial, Legislative, and Executive?
Explorers sent by Jefferson to map western lands.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
The northern states were known by this name.
What is the Union?
This cash crop helped the colony of Virginia grow wealthy.
What is tobacco?
He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This Founding Father invented bifocals and helped write the Constitution.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The 1849 search for gold that brought thousands to California.
What is the Gold Rush?
The southern states were known by this name.
What is the Conferderate Union?
He sailed with the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria to reach China and the Indies, but ended up discovering America.
Who is Christopher Columbus.
The first battles of the Revolutionary War were fought here.
What are Lexington and Concord?
The first ten amendments are known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This territory became a state after a war with Mexico. "Remeber the Alamo"
What is Texas?
The famous speech Lincoln gave in 1863 after a major battle.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The first _____ colonies belonged the European country of __________.
What 13 and England?
This man warned colonists that the English soldiers were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
The series of essays supporting the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
The belief that Americans were destined to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This general led the Union Army to victory.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?