Before the American Revolution
This is the number of colonies that existed during the American Revolution.
What is 13?
This is the event where protestors threw British tea into the Boston Harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This document was made to form a new government in the United States. It failed because it had a weak central government.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This is when the US purchased enough land from France to double its size. It only cost 15 million dollars!
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This man was the president who was determined to keep the United States together at any cost.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This is the man who created the Albany Plan of Union and the Join or Die cartoon.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
This was the nickname of the secret organization formed in Boston to protest the Stamp Act. It was made of merchants, journalists, and others. It included patriots like Paul Revere.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
This document was created to replace the Articles of Confederation. It includes a strong central government and is still followed today. It can be amended if changes need to be made.
What is the US Constitution?
Sacagawea led these men on an expedition into the Louisiana Territory.
Who were Lewis and Clark?
This is the name of a secret network of abolitionists who tried to help escaped slaves reach freedom. It included famous abolitionists like Harriet Tubman.
What was the Underground Railroad?
This is the war that was fought between the British and the French over the Ohio River Valley.
What was the French and Indian War?
These battles were the first major battles of the American Revolution.
What were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence and was the third president.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This event led to many settlers moving to California hoping to get rich. It increased the population of California, but not many ended up wealthy. These settlers were given a nickname "the 49ers".
What was the California Gold Rush?
This was the name of the president of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This was used to make colonies pay for the war against France.
What are taxes?
This man is famous for the saying, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who was Patrick Henry?
This is the name of the first ten amendments of the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
This is when Andrew Jackson forced American Indians to leave the Southeast and move west of the Mississippi River.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
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This is the name of the states that had slavery but chose not to secede from the Union.
What were the border states?
This place was taken over by the Cherokee American Indians and the the British settlers were slaughtered.
What is Fort Loudon?
This is the nickname given to the rules created to punish Massachusetts, such as closing Boston Harbor, ending town meetings, and forcing colonies to quarter British soldiers.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
This is the amendment that includes the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, right to petition, and freedom of assembly.
What is the First Amendment?
This is the path that many settlers took to move into Northwestern territory with covered wagons.
What was the Oregon Trail?
What was the nickname of the Union's plan to defeat the Confederacy?
What was the Anaconda Plan?
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What was Scott's Great Snake?