POTUS
This US president was head of the colonial army during the Revolutionary War.
George Washington
Chief Powhatan's daughter.
Who was Pocahontas?
The name of the ship on which the Pilgrims traveled to North America in 1620
What is The Mayflower?
The name of the winter encampment where the Colonial Army was tested and proven.
What is Valley Forge?
Inventor of the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney
This father and son both held the office of POTUS during the early 1800s.
Who were John Adams and John Quincy Adams?
The wife of the first president of the United States.
Who is Martha Washington?
The war between the American colonists and England.
What is the Revolutionary War or American Revolution?
The primary author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The title of a classic novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that gives insight into the Salem Witch Trials.
What is The Scarlet Letter?
While POTUS, he corresponded with her and considered her his closest political advisor.
Who was Abigail Adams?
This event was staged in protest of "taxation without representation."
What is The Boston Tea Party?
A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in 1692 and 1693
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
This man is famous for standardizing public education.
Who is Horace Mann?
This man was president during the "Era of Good Feelings."
Who was James Madison?
She wrote a best-selling novel about the horrors of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
At the bargain price of $15 million, this extended the borders of the US to the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A large quantity of gold was discovered here, causing a gold rush in 1849 and mass migrations there.
Where is Sutter's Mill in California?
English philosopher and political theorist who laid the groundwork for the Enlightenment and whose philosophies greatly influenced the founding documents of the US.
Who is John Locke?
The nickname of this POTUS was "Old Hickory."
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This Shoshone woman served as a guide on the expedition of Lewis & Clark.
Who is Sacagawea?
The Missouri Compromise maintained a temporary balance between _________ and ____________.
What is free states and slave states?
This man strengthened the Supreme Court's position as a coequal with the other branches of government and established the power of judicial review.
Who was John Marshall?
French political thinker who wrote the book entitled Democracy in America after a trip to the US aimed at studying the American prison system.
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?