US History 1
Group of department heads who advise the president.
What is a cabinet?
The first permanent British colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The group of religious settlers who founded Plymouth colony.
Who were Puritans?
What is the 19th Amendment?
The branch of government that interprets the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
George Washington was general in this war.
What is the Revolutionary War?
The first battle of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington & Concord?
The idea that the power to rule comes from the votes of the people is known as:
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The two main groups fighting in the French and Indian War.
Who were the French and the British?
A tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
This event led to the U.S. entry into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The leader of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Which document was made to cut ties between the 13 colonies and Great Britain?
The Declaration of Independence
The White House was burned by the British during this conflict.
What is the War of 1812?
The global economic crisis that lasted from 1929 to 1939.
What is the Great Depression?
The day the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
What is July, 4th. 1776?
Moses of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The introduction to the Constitution.
What is The Preamble?
This amendment guarantees the right to protest
What is the 1st Amendment?
The process of adding a piece of land or territory to a country.
What is annexation?
President involved with the nullification crisis, war with the National Bank, and Indian Removal.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
What was the name of the meeting where the Constitution was drafted?
Constitutional Convention
The group of people who were loyal to King George III and Britain but living in the colonies during the American Revolution.
Who were Loyalists?
Cotton, indigo and tobacco are examples of this type of product.
What is a cash crop?
A transaction in which the size of the United States was doubled for $10 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Sam Adam's group of politically motivated patriots who sometimes resorted to violence.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing in the U.S.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This branch is responsible for making laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Well known abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The first incident of bloodshed of the American Revolution started with a snowball fight and ended with the death of the sailor Crispus Attucks.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The French and Indian War was won by this country.
What is Britain?
This place was once the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
The Constitution was written to replace this document
What is the The Articles of Confederation?
This person wrote the book The Jungle which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The path thousands of settlers took into the western part of the country.
What is the Oregon Trail?
The belief that Americans were meant to colonize the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
What is Manifest Destiny?
The British forcing American soldiers into military service.
What is impressment?
This invention helped ranchers in the west control their herds and claim their lands.
What is barbed wire?
The period of time immediately following the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?