People
He was the first secretary of the treasury
Alexander Hamilton
This first permanent English settlement in America was named for a king across the pond
Jamestown
This document was the first national constitution which setup a limited government with no president
This was a 15 million dollar land deal between France and America, that almost doubled the size of America
The Louisiana Purchase
There are this many branches in the national government
3
This French nobleman helped the U.S. win the Revolution and then went back to France to help his own people in their revolution
La Fayette
This was the first capital city of the United States
New York City
First lady Helen Taft arranged the planting of hundreds of these trees along the Potomac River in Washington
(Japanese) Cherry Blossoms
General PGT Beauregard began the Civil War when he ordered the shelling of this fort
Fort Sumter
Passed in 1919, the 18th amendment established prohibition, this amendment was passed in 1933 and repealed the 18th
21st
Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century
Frederick Douglass
Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds
The Mayflower
The 6th paragraph of this pamphlet written in 1775 and 76 begins "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one "
Common Sense
A participant in this 1773 event recalled, “Some of our numbers jumped into the hold …I never labored harder in my life”
The Boston Tea Party
The Supreme Court gave themselves this power in Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Judicial Review
In November 1864 John Wilkes Booth & his brothers were fittingly part of a performance of this Shakespeare play
Julius Caesar
A 1711 bill cleared the names of 22 people who were tried in this town, including Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey & John Proctor
Salem, MA
Madison wrote these words to the people of New York in the 10th essay of this series: "In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights."
The Federalist Papers
In 2005 80% of New Orleans was flooded by this cataclysm
Hurricane Katrina
The case of Plessy v. Ferguson upheld racial segregation for almost 60 years with this oxymoronic doctrine
The "separate but equal" doctrine
This President is the only one to also have served on the Supreme Court
William Howard Taft
At the First Continental Congress, all the original colonies were represented except for this southernmost one
Georgia
One theory says Charles T. Torrey, a worker on this, coined its name, which appeared in The Liberator on October 14, 1842
The Underground Railroad
At this event in 1787, James Madison voted against a Bill of Rights, but later drafted the one we know
The Constitutional Convention
This is how a state's number of electoral votes is calculated (for AZ: 2+9=11)
Number of Senators + number of Representatives