Exploration/Colonization
This explorer is credited with reaching the Americas in 1492 while sailing for Spain, looking for India.
Christopher Columbus
This famous phrase summarized colonial anger over British taxes.
"No taxation without representation"
These first ten amendments to the Constitution protect individual rights.
The Bill of Rights
This President purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.
Thomas Jefferson
This President led the Union during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
This cash crop helped the colony of Virginia become successful.
Tobacco
This 1773 event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor as a form of protest.
The Boston Tea Party
This document became the supreme law of the land in 1789.
The Constitution
This belief claimed that Americans were destined to spread across the entire continent, as promised by God.
Manifest Destiny
This battle was the bloodiest battle in American history.
Gettysburg
This agreement, signed onboard the Mayflower in 1620, established self-government for the first time.
The Mayflower Compact
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine encouraged colonists to support independence.
Common Sense
This document was the first form of a central government after the Revolution, but failed massively.
These two explorers led an expedition to map the Louisiana Territory.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
This battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history.
Antietam
This English colony was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Jamestown
This man is widely considered the first death of the American Revolution.
Crispus Attucks
This principle allows each branch of government to limit the power of the others.
Checks and Balances
This group of travelers got off track from the Oregon Trail on a shortcut, which led them to become stuck in the Sierra Nevadas.
The Donner Party
This amendment established birthright citizenship, due process, and equal protection of the law.
14th Amendment
This colony was the first FAILED English settlement in North America, and has become the center of many mysteries and ghost stories.
Roanoke
This 1783 treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War.
The Treaty of Paris
This song was played for you upwards of 10x to teach you the process of creating a law.
"I'm Just A Bill" by Schoolhouse Rock
This law in 1862 gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived on it for five years, built a home, and built a road.
The Homestead Act
This man was the winner of the highly disputed Election of 1876, which ultimately killed the Reconstruction era.
Rutherford B. Hayes