Pre-Revolution
The Seven Years War is known to Americans as...
French and Indian War
This act of Parliament lowered the tax on tea and gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea in the colonies
Tea Act (1773)
The Constitutional Convention met in this city
Philadelphia
The Great Compromiser, and a premier Whig
Henry Clay
This president ran for office promising to take control of California and Oregon
JAMES K POLK IN DA HUZZ
Lincoln was assassinated by this person
John Wilkes Booth
This famous American urged the colonies to unite in an effort to keep Iroquois tribe from defecting to the French at the Albany Congress in 1754
Benjamin Franklin
Most pre-revolution colonial resistance to Great Britain could be found in this colony
Massachusetts
The so-called "Father of the Constitution"
James Madison
Lewis and Clark explored this territory
Louisiana Purchase
The belief that God had ordained America to stretch across North America from Atlantic to Pacific
Manifest Destiny
What was the first federal experiment in social welfare?
Freedmen's Bureau
As a result of the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the _____ were virtually kicked out of North America
The British plan to isolate New England by cutting it off from the rest of the colonies failed dramatically at this battle in New York state; also proved to France that American rebels could win
Saratoga
This act of Congress under the Articles of Confederation adopted the statehood process and banned slavery from the territories owned by the US
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
This president won in 1824 and was unable to do much, being a "minority president" that was opposed by Congress and the people
John Quincy Adams
This act caused the Kansas Territory to erupt in sectional violence
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Lincoln’s re-election in 1864 was very much in doubt until... this event
Capture of Atlanta
The French and Indian War was fought between Britain and France over this area of land that they both wanted
Ohio River Valley/Old Northwest
Term for colonists who did not side with the rebels
Loyalists
Those that favored ratification of a new Constitution in 1787 were called...
Federalists
This president opposed the national bank
Andrew Jackson
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The proposed process by which a territory could choose whether or not to have slavery
The Southern attempt to invade the North in 1863 that resulted in a dramatic Northern victory was at....
Gettysburg
The purpose of the Proclamation of 1763
Keep English colonists separate from native tribes until land rights were settled
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
The final true battle of the War of Independence, where Washington forced Cornwallis to surrender
When the French Revolution turned into a wider EUROPEAN war, Washington chose to ....
Remain NEUTRAL
Jackson's electoral victory in 1828 was a victory for these kinds of Americans
common, ordinary Americans from the South and West
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Whose Reconstruction plan was similar Lincoln's?
Andrew Johnson's