Age of Discovery
Colonial America
Revolutionary War
Early United States
Westward Expansion
Sectionalism
100
He was the first European in the New World.
Who is Leif Erikson?
100
This was the first permanent English settlement in the United States.
What is Jamestown?
100
This silversmith famously rode through the night to warn colonists that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
100
This second president of the United States was a Federalist and signed the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts.
Who is John Adams?
100
This famous trail started in Missouri and was a primary route for settlers heading to the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Oregon Trail?
100
This agreement in 1820 attempted to balance the power between free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
This term means to circle around the world.
What is circumnavigate?
200
This group of English settlers wanted to reform instead of separate from the Church of England.
Who were the Puritans?
200
This early battle, though a British victory, proved to the colonists they could stand up against the British army.
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
200
The British practice of seizing American sailors and forcing them into their navy was known as this.
What is impressment?
200
Seeking religious freedom, members of this religious group traveled west to the Great Salt Lake Valley in Utah.
Who are the Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)?
200
This term refers to someone who wanted to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
300
Francisco Pizarro conquered this South American empire.
What is the Inca Empire?
300
William Penn originally established a colony for this religious group.
Who are the Quakers?
300
This agreement officially ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States.
What was the Treat of Paris?
300
The forced removal of the Cherokee and other Native American tribes from their ancestral lands in the Southeast is known as this.
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
This term, popular in the 1800s, described the belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
This radical anti-slavery leader raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to incite a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
400
This Central American city was the capital of an empire latter ransacked by conquistadors.
What is Tenochtitlan?
400
Signed in 1620 in Plymouth Massachusetts, this document became an example of representative government in the English colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
This section of the Declaration of Independence outlines the natural rights of all people, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What is the preamble?
400
This document was the basis of the United States government before the U.S. Constitution. It did not support a strong central government, and required unanimous votes to pass anything.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
400
This president was a strong believer in Manifest Destiny and oversaw significant territorial expansion, including the annexation of Texas.
Who is James K. Polk?
400
This term referred to the idea that the people living in a territory should decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
These were the the two French Explorers who began exploration of the upper Mississippi River.
Who are Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet?
500
Signed at Runnymede England in 1265 the Magna Carta or "Great Charter was approved by this terrible English king.
Who was King John?
500
This French nobleman played a significant role in the Continental Army and was a close friend of George Washington.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
500
Andrew Jackson's opposition to this institution led to a major political battle and its eventual demise.
What is the Bank of the United States?
500
This territory, shown in red, added vast lands including present-day California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.
What is the Mexican Cession?
500
This piece of legislation attempted to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories gained from Mexico but ultimately failed to ease tensions.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?