Road to Independence
The document that ended the Thirteen Colonies' political ties to Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The three branches created by the Constitution.
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
The writer of the national anthem.
What is manifest destiny?
The second president of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
A name for a colonist that was loyal to the British king.
What is a loyalist?
The document added to the Constitution to compromise with the Anti-Federalists.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This treaty calmed tensions between Britain and the US after the Revolution.
What is Jay's Treaty?
This Texas battle led to the rallying cry "Remember the __________"
What is the Alamo?
The president who led the US through the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The requirements to be president.
The judicial power established by Marbury v Madison.
What is judicial review?
The war that led to the US gaining most of its western territories.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The Patriot organization that was involved in many of the protests against the British government.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
The Amendment that protects your right to a speedy and public trial.
What is the 6th Amendment?
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
The US purchased Oregon from Britain with this agreement.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
The president who refused to obey the decision of Worcester v Georgia.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The first battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord?
The Great Compromise, which created our current legislature, was also called this.
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
The clause used to justify Congress stretching its powers.
What is the Elastic Clause or the Necessary and Proper Clause?
This agreement with Mexico gained the US southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The president who died shortly after his inauguration, who had the shortest presidential term in history.
Who is William Henry Harrison?