American Revolution
Those who opposed the split with England.
What are Loyalists or Tories?
The primary writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The US President when the Louisiana Territory was added to the country.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
In the South, "Cotton was _____!"
What is King?
Famous anti-slavery book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1851.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Place where George Washington and the troops suffered through a winter full of disease and scarcity, but also training from Baron von Steuben.
What is Valley Forge?
The first 10 Amendments of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Nickname for the pioneer wagons with their distinctive white covers.
What are prairie schooners?
The network of homes, people and hideouts that slaves from the South used to escape to freedom in the North and Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Act that organized two new territories where the people got to vote on whether or not to have slavery. This destroyed the balance and compromise in Congress.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Cornwallis surrendered to Washington after this Battle, effectively ending the Revolutionary War.
What is Yorktown?
First written form of government after the US declared its independence.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Slogan used by Texians in their war with Mexico: Remember the ______________!
What is Alamo?
Man who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Who is Joseph Smith?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruling meant that slaves were not citizens with the same rights as whites.
What is Dred Scott v Sandford?
A mythical figure created as a composite of the stories of different women who fought alongside the men in battle.
Who is Molly Pitcher?
The Virginian known as the "Father of the Constitution".
Who is James Madison?
Area referred to by James Polk in his Presidential election slogan "54'40" or fight".
What is the Oregon Territory?
Slave who escaped from Maryland, became a famous abolitionist and wrote a newspaper called the North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Abraham Lincoln was the first president elected from this political party; his victory in 1860 made the South feel totally unrepresented.
What is Republican?
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine explaining why becoming independent from England was logical. It influenced many people.
What is Common Sense?
The three branches of our government.
What are executive, legislative and judicial?
Purchase from Mexico that completed the continental USA borders.
Gadsden Purchase
Town outside of Rochester, NY where the first women's rights convention was held.
What is Seneca Falls?
The number of southern states that seceded from the USA and formed the Confederate States of America
What is 11?