Freedom Fighters
The largest state at the time of the Revolution
What is VA?
This area of the country had the most industry in 1800.
What is the Northeast/New England?
This was the first vehicle that enabled Americans to travel quickly over land.
What is a train?
This was the first conflict of the Civil War.
What is Ft. Sumter?
This event where colonists dumped tea in Boston Harbor contributed to rising tensions before the Revolutionary War.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This is the legislative body of the United States.
What is Congress?
This Compromise over a new state entering the union ended with slave states being allowed to exist below this state, and free states above it.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This invention allowed for rapid long-distance communication.
What is the telegraph?
The name of Lincoln's political party, established in favor of abolition.
What is the Republican Party?
This event was the first loss of life due to the Revolution. The British soldiers fired on a crowd of colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This individual wrote much of the Constitution and was our 4th President.
Who is James Madison?
He purchased the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was the agricultural system prominent in the South, fueled by slave labor.
What is plantation agriculture?
This individual was the most important general of the Confederacy.
Who is Robert E Lee?
This was the final battle of the Revolutionary War (it's a 10 minute drive from school).
What is the battle of Yorktown?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known as the ____ of _______.
Highest court in the U.S. Decides if other branches of government are acting constitutionally.
What is the Supreme Court?
This territory was acquired from the Spanish in 1819. This is gator country.
What is Florida?
After this battle in Pennsylvania, General Robert E. Lee never went on the offensive again.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg
This state was its own country for 10 years before it was annexed from Mexico.
What is Texas?
When the British seized American sailors and forced them into the British navy
What is impressment?
This President fought in the War of 1812, helped non-property owners gain the right to vote, and was responsible for the Trail of Tears.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
General Sherman burned Georgia in what is known as the "______ to the _____."
What is the March to the Sea?