Politics
Colonial Period
PreRevolutionary Period
Revolutionary
War
Civil War
100
Person who heads the U.S. Senate
What is the vice-president
100
Man who led the Jamestown colony
Who is John Smith
100
Man who warned the colonists that the British were coming to Concord
Who is Paul Revere
100
Hired German mercenaries
What are Hessians
100
People who wanted to do away with slavery
Who were abolitionists
200
Power to reject an act or bill
What is a veto
200
Religion of most people who settled in Maryland
What is Roman Catholic
200
Colonists who remained loyal to the British government
Who are Tories or Loyalists
200
Man credited for forming the American navy
Who is John Paul Jones
200
Man who debated Lincoln for the Senate seat in Illinois
Who is Stephen A. Douglas
300
U.S. lawmakers elected for six years
What are senators
300
Document that gave a group rights & priveleges to settle an area
What is a charter
300
Act that required a tax on all written documents
What is the Stamp Act
300
General known as the swamp fox
Who is Francis Marion
300
Site of Southern surrender at the end of the Civil War
What is Appomattox Courthouse
400
People who worked for voting rights for women
What are suffragists
400
Colony whose proprietor was Lord Baltimore
What is Maryland
400
Harsh laws passed to punish the people of Boston
What are the Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts
400
Site of the battle known as the turning point of the Revolutionary War
What is Saratoga
400
Site of the first major battle of the Civil War
What was Bull Run
500
Only amendment to U.S. Constitution to have been repealed
What is the 18th Amendment (Probhibition)
500
First form of representative government in the New World
What is the House of Burgesses
500
Special search warrants used to search colonial homes
What are Writs of Assistance
500
Place where the Battle of Bunker Hill took place
What was Breed's Hill
500
Northern general who made a "march to the sea"
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman
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