Colonial America & the American Revolution
This city was the location of the famous "Tea Party" and "Massacre" of the revolutionaries before the American Revolution.
What is Boston?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called this ______________________.
What are The Bill of Rights?
Samuel Slater brought the idea of building factories near this for power from Great Britain.
What is water?
This term came to mean to many Americans that it was their right, their duty, to overspread the continent from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
One event that led to the Civil War.
What is: Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown's actions in Kansas, caning, Dred Scott 1857, John Brown's Raid, Election of Lincoln, secession, slavery
This crop is credited with saving Jamestown (England's second attempt at colonization)
What is tobacco?
The three branches of government are called what?
What is: The Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, and the Judicial Branch?
This is one reason women and children were often the main workers in the factories in the North.
What is: factory owners could pay them less and they were smaller for working the machines. (either answer will work)
In the California Gold Rush, these people made more money than the people looking for gold.
Who were the merchants?
One argument the South used to secede from the union.
What is: state's rights, slavery foundation of their economy, federal government not upholding their rights, seeing Lincoln as an abolitionist, feeling they had no voice in government, Constitution does not prohibit secession, 5th amendment government cannot take property without due process, etc.
The name of the location that was the first attempt at English settlement that mysteriously disappeared. (not the state name).
What is Roanoke or the Lost colony of Roanoke?
This group is in charge of the Legislative Branch of the government.
What is Congress?
This was the act of kidnapping and forcing American sailors into service in the British navy.
What was impressment?
This famous location in Texas became the site of an epic battle for Texas Independence against the Mexican dictator Santa Anna.
What is The Alamo?
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
One of the acts that was imposed by the British on the colonists that deeply angered them leading to the American Revolution.
What was the: (any will work)
Sugar Act Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Townshend Acts
Intolerable Acts
This Landmark Supreme court case determined that schools are allowed to search students' belongings only when they have reasonable suspicion.
What is New Jersey v. T.L.O.?
One reason for going to war with Britain again was to gain land. The two land grabs the U.S. were hoping to get if they won were ___________ and _________.
What were Canada and Florida?
These two groups headed west for religious reasons, one to spread their religion, one because they were persecuted.
Who were the Missionaries (The Whitmans would be acceptable too) and the Latter Day Saints (Formerly the Mormons)?
This famous executive order issued January 1, 1863 changed the goals of the Civil War to now include freeing the slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This was a term used for colonists who stayed loyal to Britain before and during the American Revolution.
What was a loyalist or a tory?
These two factions/groups disagreed and debated ratification (approval) of The Constitution based on adding a Bill of Rights (hint: one wanted more power to the Federal government, and one wanted less).
What are the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists?
This is the name of both a famous location became the site of an important event and the motivation for a song to commemorate the significance of this event, even though it took place after the war was technically ended weeks prior with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
In the famous painting, "American Progress," by John Gast, the lady figure, "Columbia" carries what two items in her arms?
What is a schoolbook and telegraph wire?
Other than Abraham Lincoln, name one other member of the government who was an intended target of the conspiracy plot to try to kill and disrupt the government from functioning.
Who was: Andrew Johnson or William Seward