The American Revolution
The year the Declaration of Independence was written
1776
The year the Constitutional Convention met
1787
The year of the Gold Rush
1849
The Technical name for the right to vote
suffrage
The year the Civil War began
1861
The person who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
How many Articles are in the U.S. Constitution
7
The philosophy that the settlers had a right to spread and settle across the continent.
Manifest Destiny
The name of the movement that wanted to ban alcohol
The Temperance Movement
The name of the Fort where the Civil War began
Fort Sumter
The name for the colonists who did NOT want a war with Great Britain.
Loyalists
What is the name of the first 10 Amendments
The Bill of Rights
The name of the act that pushed the Native Americans off of their ancestral lands.
The Indian Removal Act
She fought to improve prison conditions for women and the mentally ill.
Dorothea Dix
This freed all slaves then living in the Confederate territories
The Emancipation Proclamation
Hit and run military tactics - firing from trees, behind stone walls, surprise attacks, etc...
Guerrilla warfare
How many Amendments are there in total in the U.S. Constitution
27
Who was the president who authorized the removal of the Native Americans.
Andrew Jackson
She was known as the "Moses" of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
The General who brought the Union to Victory
Ulysses S. Grant
The name of the treaty at the end of the war which recognized the United States as an independent nation.
The Treaty of Paris
What is the Preamble to the Constitution (RECITE)
We the People, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.
The name of the treaty with Mexico, that gave up all of California and New Mexico.
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
About 200 women, and 40 men attended this meeting to discuss women's rights in 1848
The Seneca Falls Convention
The name of the theater where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Ford's Theater