Presidents
Vocabulary
Colonies
Revolutionary War
Civil War
100
Had a rowdy inauguration party that included "common people"
Who is Andrew Jackson
100
Schools supported by taxes
What are public schools
100
Known as the "lost colony"
What is Roanoke
100
Author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson
100
Confederate general who surrendered at Appomatox Court House
Who is Robert E. Lee
200
Warned against political parties in his farewell address
Who is George Washington
200
Soldiers who are paid to fight for a country other than their own
Who are mercenaries
200
Told the citizens of Jamestown, "He who works not, eats not."
Who is John Smith
200
Most famous American traitor
Who is Thomas Jefferson
200
Waged total war in his march to the sea
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman
300
President during War of 1812
Who is James Madison
300
Religious folk songs that blended biblical themes with the realities of slavery
What are spirituals
300
The Mayflower landed here
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts
300
Said, "I have not yet begun to fight."
Who is John Paul Jones
300
Slave states that did not secede
What are border states
400
Managed to keep the US out of war with France despite the XYZ Affair
Who is John Adams
400
Practice of rewarding government jobs to loyal supporters of the party that wins the election
What is the spoils system
400
Quakers settled here
What is Pennsylvania
400
Turning point of the war
What is Saratoga
400
Attack by Confederates here marked the beginning of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
500
Announced the US would not allow European intervention in the Americas
Who is James Monroe
500
The idea that God decided the fate of a person's soul even before birth
What is predestination
500
Debtors settled here
What is Georgia
500
Washington led a surprise attack here on Christmas 1776
What is Trenton
500
Number of soldiers who died in the Civil War
What is 620,000
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