Founding America
This man was Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
This term describes privately built roads that charge tolls.
What are turnpikes?
This belief said God intended the U.S. to expand to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This man led settlers into Texas from the U.S.
Who is Stephen Austin?
This act required runaway slaves to be returned.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This state was the first to secede in 1860.
What is South Carolina?
This term describes Northerners who moved South after the Civil War.
What are carpetbaggers?
This movement sought reforms in business and government.
What is Progressivism?
This system protected ships by traveling in groups.
What is the convoy system?
This inventor created the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This was America’s first national government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This act allowed British sailors to force Americans into service.
What is impressment?
This trail went from Missouri to Oregon.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This Mexican leader fought at the Alamo and San Jacinto.
Who is Santa Anna?
This court case said African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This battle was the turning point in the East.
What is Gettysburg?
This term describes Southern supporters of Reconstruction.
What are scalawags?
This journalist exposed Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This act allowed the U.S. to draft soldiers.
What is the Selective Service Act?
This man developed interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This document declared American independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This man was appointed Chief Justice by John Adams.
Who is John Marshall?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This battle gave Texas independence.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
This compromise admitted California as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This document freed slaves in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment granted citizenship to former slaves.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This journalist exposed meatpacking conditions.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This document tried to bring peace after WWI.
What is Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
This inventor created the telegraph.
Who is Samuel Morse?
This system was created to avoid tyranny by dividing government into branches.
What is the separation of powers?
This war was fought in 1812 between the United States and Britain.
What is the War of 1812?
This law removed Native Americans from the Southeast to Indian Territory.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This republic existed briefly before Texas became a U.S. state.
What is the Republic of Texas?
This law allowed territories to decide slavery by vote.
What is popular sovereignty?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This amendment gave voting rights to Black men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This amendment created income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This event caused the U.S. to enter WWI (telegram).
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This man led the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This amendment list contains the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This British burning of a U.S. city included the White House.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This journey is known as the forced relocation of the Cherokee.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This man captured California during the Mexican-American War.
Who is John C. Frémont?
This violent abolitionist attacked Harper’s Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This president was impeached during Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This president created the Federal Trade Commission.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This date ended World War I.
What is November 11, 1918?
This man was the main Union general at the end of the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?