Colonization
The English colony was the first permanent settlement in America.
What is Jamestown?
No taxation without representation protested this British tax.
What is the Stamp Act?
This document is the supreme law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
The Civil War was fought between the Union and this region.
What is the Confederacy?
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United states.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The Pilgrims arrived in America on this ship
What is the Mayflower?
This event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These first ten amendments protect individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These Explorers mapped western lands after the louisiana purchase.
Who are lewis and clark?
This document set rules for self-government in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The U.S. government has this many branches.
What is three?
This battle was a turning point in the civil war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This belief said Americans were meant to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This cash crop helped Virginia grow wealthy.
What is tobacco?
This 1775 battle was the first of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
This branch makes laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This Amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1830 law led to the forced removal of many Native nations, including the Cherokee.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 1619 representative assembly was the first elected legislature in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This 1783 treaty ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This system prevents one branch from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
This period focused on rebuilding the south after the civil war.
What is Reconstruction?
This 1849 event brought thousands to California.
What is the gold rush?