The first successful English colony in the Americas.
What was Jamestown? (in modern Virginia)
100
The Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Who was George Washington?
100
The supreme law of the land of the United States of America;it replaced the Articles of Confederation when it was adopted by the Confederation Congress in 1789.
What is the Constitution?
100
President who won the 1828 election, the first election in which no state required that people own property in order to vote.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
100
The home state of famous Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
What is Virginia?
200
The primary economic enterprise of the French in the Americas before the French & Indian War. (what the French did to make money in North America)
What is fur trading?
200
The broader military campaign during which the Battle of Bunker Hill took place. It began following the Battles of Lexington and Concord and ended after the evacuation of the British.
What is the Siege of Boston?
200
The focus of early American foreign policy. Public opinion in the United States was bitterly split by this issue.
What is the French Revolution?
200
Economic plan promoted by Senator Henry Clay which included spending federal money on building canals and roads to spur commerce.
What is the American System?
200
The act of politically separating a territory from the country of which it is a part. Considered unconstitutional by Abraham Lincoln.
What is Secession?
300
A 1676 uprising of frontiersman in Virginia colony against the colonial governor William Berkeley. The rebellion notably included people of both black and white colonists.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
300
The legislative body consisting of representatives from all 13 of the English colonies that adopted the Declaration of Independence in 1776. They also managed the colonial war effort.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
300
A series of laws passed by the Federalist legislature during John Adams' tenure as President of the United States which severely restricted the freedom of expression for Americans.
What were the Alien & Sedition Acts?
300
An 1820 agreement which divided the US along the 36th parallel; new states north of the line would enter the Union as free states, new states south of the line would enter the Union as slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
A type of war that involves slowly wearing down your enemy.
What is a war of attrition?
400
A royal decree; one of the results of the French & Indian War. It outraged colonists who thought that they had fought against the French so they could expand into territories west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
The European power that provided military assistance (most notably with their navy) to the American Revolutionaries, without whom the Americans would likely have lost the war.
What is France?
400
The celebrated Shawnee leader who fought against the United States in the War of 1812 to prevent the expansion of Americans into the American Indian-controlled Great Lakes Region.
Who is Tecumseh?
400
A major US foreign policy; forbids new European colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
The Union's plan for defeating the Confederacy which included placing gunboats in the Mississippi and blockading the coast.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
500
Lawyer who successfully defended the British sentries during the trial which followed the Boston Massacre in 1770.
Who is John Adams?
500
A humiliating loss early in the war which forced George Washington and his troops to retreat to New Jersey.
What is the Battle of Long Island aka the Battle of Brooklyn Heights?
500
The 1803 Supreme Court case which established Judicial Review, the power of federal courts to determine whether or not the laws of Congress are Constitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
500
The primary reason that California became a state so quickly after being annexed; created an urgent need for civil government in California.