📜 Category 1: The Constitution & Rights
This document is known as the "Supreme Law of the Land."
What is the US Constitution?
He was the President of the Union (the North) during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
During this time, America shifted from making goods by hand to making them with these.
What are machines (Machine-made goods)?
This was the belief that the U.S. was meant to expand all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This massive project connected the East and West coasts, shortening travel time from months to days.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This branch of government, also known as Congress, is responsible for making the laws.
What is the Legislative branch?
This conflict is often referred to as the "Second War of Independence".
What is the War of 1812?
This invention by Eli Whitney cleaned cotton faster but also increased the demand for enslaved labor.
What is the Cotton Gin?
President Thomas Jefferson bought this huge piece of land from France, doubling the size of the U.S..
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This is the name for the period right after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South.
What is Reconstruction?
These are the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution that protect your personal freedoms from the government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem after watching the American flag survive the bombing of this fort.
What is Fort McHenry?
This invention used Morse Code to send messages instantly over long distances.
What is the Telegraph?
This is the year gold was discovered in California, leading to a massive "Rush".
What is 1849?
These three specific amendments ended slavery, granted citizenship, and gave Black men the right to vote.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This specific amendment gives you the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This was a major cause of the War of 1812, where Britain was capturing American sailors.
What is impressment?
Because of factories, many people moved away from small farms and into these areas.
What are cities?
These were the two explorers Jefferson sent to scout the new land bought from France.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
Millions of people from these two continents arrived in America seeking a better life.
What are Europe and Asia?
This is the system that makes sure no single branch of government gets too much power.
What are Checks and Balances?
During the War of 1812, British troops set fire to these two important buildings in Washington, D.C..
What are the White House and the Capitol?
These two forms of water transportation made moving people and goods much faster and cheaper.
What are Steamboats and Canals?
Many pioneers traveled on this dangerous route while seeking free land and new opportunities.
What is the Oregon Trail?
According to the "Top Secret" tips, you should do this to answers you know are 100% wrong.
What is "Slash the trash"? (or cross them out)