Foundations & Revolution (Topics 1&2)
This 1776 document written mostly by Thomas Jefferson declared that the colonies were free from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This set of 10 amendments was added to the U.S. Constitution to protect individual freedoms like speech and religion.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This popular 19th-century belief held that the U.S. was destined by God to expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
He was the 16th President of the United States who led the nation during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The period of rebuilding the South and readmitting former Confederate states into the Union after the Civil War is known as ____.
What is Reconstruction?
This phrase was used by colonists who were angry about paying taxes to King George III without having a voice in Parliament.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
This branch of government makes laws and includes both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is the Legislative Branch (or Congress)?
The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848 caused thousands of people (nicknamed "49ers") to rush to this state.
What is California?
The Civil War officially began in April 1861 when Confederate forces fired on this South Carolina fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
This Constitutional Amendment officially abolished slavery across the entire United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This first battle of the American Revolution is known as the site of the "shot heard 'round the world."
What is the Battle of Lexington (or Lexington and Concord)?
The first weak national government plan for the United States was called the Articles of ____.
What is Confederation?
Eli Whitney invented this machine, which greatly increased cotton production and expanded slavery in the South.
What is the Cotton Gin?
Issued by Lincoln in 1863, this executive order declared that all enslaved people in Confederate states were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Constitutional Amendment guaranteed equal protection under the law and citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This European nation became a vital military ally to the American colonists after the Patriot victory at Saratoga:
A. Spain
B. France
C. Germany
What is B) France?
he system in the Constitution that prevents any single branch from becoming too powerful by giving each branch power over the others is called:
A) Federalism
B) Popular Sovereignty
C) Checks and Balances
What is C) Checks and Balances?
This forced 1830s journey relocated thousands of Native Americans, including the Cherokee, to land west of the Mississippi River:
A) Oregon Trail
B) Trail of Tears
C) Santa Fe Trail
What is B) the Trail of Tears?
This 3-day battle in Pennsylvania in 1863 was considered the major turning point of the war in favor of the Union:
A) Battle of Antietam
B) Battle of Gettysburg
C) Battle of Bull Run
What is B) the Battle of Gettysburg?
Laws passed by Southern states right after the war to restrict African Americans' freedoms were called:
A) Black Codes
B) Jim Crow Laws
C) Slave Codes
What are A) Black Codes?
These early Native American civilizations adapted to their environments, like the Pueblo in the Southwest who built homes out of sun-dried clay called:
A. Adobe
B. Wigwams
C. Longhouses
What is A) Adobe?
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States by making this land deal with France:
A) Adams-Onís Treaty
B) Louisiana Purchase
C) Treaty of Paris
What is B) the Louisiana Purchase?
Issued in 1823, this U.S. policy warned European nations to stay out of the affairs of the Western Hemisphere:
A) Washington's Farewell Address
B) Monroe Doctrine
C) Truman Doctrine
What is B) the Monroe Doctrine?
General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at this Virginia location in April 1865:
A) Appomattox Court House
B) Richmond
C) Vicksburg
What is A) Appomattox Court House?
This system trapped landless Black and white farmers in cycles of debt by forcing them to work land in exchange for a portion of crops:
A) Tenant Farming
B) Sharecropping
C) Plantation System
What is B) Sharecropping?