This country controlled the 13 colonies before independence.
What is Britain?
The war fought for American independence from Britain.
What is the American Revolution?
The supreme law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
The belief that America should expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Civil War was fought between the Union and the _____.
What is the Confederacy?
The first permanent English settlement in America.
What is Jamestown?
The phrase “No taxation without _____.”
What is representation?
The branch of government that makes laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
A famous trail settlers used to move west.
What is the Oregon Trail?
One major cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
The colonial region known for plantations and slavery.
What are the Southern Colonies?
The battles that started the Revolutionary War.
What are Lexington and Concord?
The branch led by the President.
What is the Executive Branch?
One reason settlers moved west.
What is land/opportunity/gold?
The president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The three colonial regions were New England, Middle, and this region.
What is the Southern Colonies?
The main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The system where power is shared between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
This invention helped communication over long distances.
What is the telegraph?
The North was also called the _____.
What is the Union?
What did Native Americans and the colonist have conflict over?
What is land?
This document declared independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Westward expansion increased conflict over this issue.
What is slavery?
The Civil War ended slavery being this.
What is abolished?