Delegates in Pennsylvania were debating, forming, and writing the Constitution on this date....
What is 1787
100
All wars have turning point this, this turning point pursuaded France to help out the Patriots during the American Revolution.
What is the battle of Saratoga?
100
This is the opposite of Subsistence farming. In the south plantation owners grew these to make plenty of money.
What are Cash Crops?
100
In 1787 a group of prominent men gathered together in Pennsylvania to brainstorm, form, and write this set of rules that governs our nation.
What is the United States Constitution?
100
This cost as much as Tiger Woods' house, 15 million, in 1803?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
200
Thomas Jefferson purchased the huge area of land from France at a bargain price, doubling the size of the nation with a 15 million dollar purchase, the same price as Tiger Woods' House
What is the Louisiana Purchase in 1803?
200
This is Saratoga's twin in the Civil War. After this battle General lee's hopes of winning in the North were over. Also the sight of a famous Abraham Lincoln Speech.
What is Gettysburg, Pennsylvania?
200
Selling Alcohol was a great way to put money into the economy, but family began to suffer when men brought less of a pay check home, so this reformation movement was started.
What is the Temperance Movement?
200
This is a type of government where people vote for certain people to make laws for the people that voted for them.
What is a Representative Government?
200
This is a type of person who wanted to end slavery all over the United state
What is a Abolitionist?
300
These dates mark an era that started at Fort Sumter, South Carolina and ended at the Appomattox Court House, in Virginia. (Civil War)
What is 1861-1865?
300
This completed the Anaconda Plan, after the union completely control all of the Mississippi River.
What is The Siege of Vicksburg?
300
This economic theory is the a country's export should bring in more money then they spend on imports. that the colonies exist for the benefit of the Mother Country.
What is Mercantilism?
300
During the antebellum period people seemed to be more loyal to their state or section of the country rather than to the nation as a whole. This was widely know as this...
What is Sectionalism?
300
In 1861 the first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
400
Thomas Jefferson seems to be a pretty important guy in fact he was the author of the nations most important break up letter to Britain, the Declaration of Independence on this date.
What is July 4th, 1776?
400
Lord Cornwallis was cornered on a Virginia Pennisula, forcing the British to surrender the last major battle of the American Revolution.
What is battle of Yorktown?
400
This is a TAX on a good brought into a country. Tax on foreign goods.
What is a Tariff?
400
This are what people hold to determine who is going to represent the people in the Government. this is the heart of Democracy and Representative Government.
What are Elections?
400
The belief the the United States should own all of the land from sea to shining sea, east to west coast, Notorious BIG to Tupac.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
The first permanent European settlement in the New Land was settled by Spain (St. Augustine, Florida), Jamestown was settle by England on this year.
What is 1607?
500
Small town in Virginia. Also the rendezvous point where Lee met Grant to surrender all of the Confederate forces, effectively ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House, Virginia?
500
This is a Tax designed to protect American business, a tax on a foreign good is designed to make the good more expensive then the American good hoping people will be more inclined to buy the American good.
What is a Protective Tariff?
500
He was known as the Father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
500
This is what the people of the south called John Quincy Adams' protective tariff that seemed to hurt the south way more then it helped the north.