Early America and American Revolution
What was the name of the first permanent colony in the United States of America?
Jamestown, Virginia
The 3 branches of government are..?
Judicial, Executive and Legislative
James Monroe gave a speech telling European powers to stay out of the Americas. This speech would be known as what?
What event caused the southern States to secede?
Lincoln's election as president.
A form of neo-slavery (Not slavery, but slavery) after the Civil War was..?
The prison leasing system or sharecropping
What was the last attempt by the colonies to make peace with King George III?
The Olive Branch Petition
What term did McClay use to call the loose enforcement of Laws in the colonies, allowing self-rule?
Salutary Neglect
What is the terms that refers to the power divided by National and State governments in the United States?
Federalism
What is an abolitionists (extra 100 points if you can give an example)
Someone who advocates for the end of slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Nat Turner, and Abraham Lincoln
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed all the slaves in the Southern states
Compromise of 1877
Who was put in charge of the settlement of Jamestown and would later meet Pocahontas?
John Smith
James Otis would shout, "No taxation without representation!!". James Otis was a part of a group that boycotted British goods and protected colonial rights. That group was called?
The Sons of Liberty
Francis Scott Key witnessed the Fort McHenry being bombarded for 25 hours straight. He wrote a song about what he had witnessed. That song is called?
The Star Spangled Banner
John Brown was responsible for Bleeding Kansas and attempting to incite a slave insurrection in Virginia. The name of the slave insurrection was called..? He was captured and hanged for treason.
Harper's Ferry
What was the immediate start to the Civil War and what was the first major battle?
Fort Sumter and Bull Run
A government institution that was designed to help newly freed black men in the South adapt to society by providing them with education, jobs, housing, food, etc. This was the..?
The Freedmen's Bureau
What was the first form of government for the United States called? It was widely considered weak for its inability to enforce laws, taxes, and tariffs.
The Articles of Confederation
In what event did colonists dress up like Native Americans and dump 342 chest fulls of tea into the harbor?
The Boston Tea Party
The belief that the United States was destined to expand westward by God was called?
Manifest Destiny
What was the name of the industry that took slaves from Africa to the United States, the Caribbean and South America?
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
What is the deadliest war in United States History?
The American Civil War
Which president was impeached during the Reconstruction Era?
Andrew Johnson
At what battle would you have heard "The Shot heard around the world"?
Battle of Lexington and Concord
In Group, list the first 5 presidents of the United States of America.
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe
In what American war was the White House burned down?
The War of 1812
In the Dred Scott Case. Justice Roger Tainey (The Supreme Court Justice) ruled against Dred Scott because and said..?
African Americans were property and had no right to sue or stop the expansion of slavery.
What was the name of the plan used by the Union to win the Civil War?
The Anaconda Plan
What was the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment?
13th ended slavery in the US
14th gave African Americans their US citizenship
15th gave African Americans the right to vote
In what war would the United States win the territories of California, New Mexico and extended the Border of Texas.
The Mexican-American War.
Received in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo