Colonization
Rebellion and Revolution
US Constitution
Early Years of the Republic and Jacksonian Democracy
Westward Expansion
Social Issues and Reform
Antebellum and the Civil War
Collection of the Packet (All Units)
100
What is the name of the feast that took place between the natives and the passengers who came over on the Mayflower?
Thanksgiving
100
Who was the commander of the Continental Army?
George Washington
100
What are the three branches of the federal government?
Executive, Legislative and Judicial
100
What worried so many people about the French Revolution?
The bloody nature of the conflict
100
What is the idea of Manifest Destiny?
The idea that America would rule from sea to shining sea
100
What is reform?
To make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.
100
Who was the 16th President of the United States that would see the nation through the Civil War? 
Abraham Lincoln
100
On what day in what year was the Declaration of Independence signed by 56 of our Founding Fathers?
July 4th, 1776
200
What were the names of the three colonial regions?
New England, Middle and Southern Colonial Regions
200
What was the famous patriot slogan against taxation?
No taxation without representation
200
What is the name of the system that is used to elect the President of the United States? 
The Electoral College
200
What is an Embargo? Thomas Jefferson would pass one of these on England and France.
A stalling of trade with a nation. This hurt US sailors far worse than it hurt those nations
200
What compromise allowed the state of California to enter the Union, making it the first western state?
The Compromise of 1850
200
The Declaration of Sentiments was a result of the Seneca Falls Convention. What did the document argue for? 
The equal rights of women and women's suffrage
200
What was the name of the Northern strategy during the Civil War? 
The Anaconda Plan
200
Where was the first shot of the Revolutionary War fired? 
Lexington and Concord
300
Who is this? He founded the colony of Pennsylvania.
William Penn
300
What 47 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine would have a profound effect in convincing people to join the Patriot cause?
Common Sense
300
How are the number of representatives for the House of Representatives decided for each state?
Representation is based on a states population
300
Was Thomas Jefferson a supporter of a large powerful government (Federalist) or a smaller weaker government (Anti-Federalist)
Smaller weaker government (Anti-Federalist)
300
John Brown became famous or infamous at what event that took place in Kansas?
Bleeding Kansas
300
Harriet Beecher Stowe would author what novel that brought the horrors of slavery to the masses in the North?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
300
What was the first all black fighting unit that would see their first action at Fort Wagner? 
The 54th Massachusetts
300
What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War? 
Gettysburg
400
What were the driving forces of the New England economy?
Shipbuilding, fishing and whaling
400
What war that took place prior to the Revolution created a large debt for England that led them to raise taxes on the colonies?
The French and Indian War
400
What are concurrent powers?
Powers that both the state and federal government have. A prime example is the ability to tax its citizens.
400
Who was Andrew Jacksons chief political rival? 
John Quincy Adams
400
What war resulted in the United States gaining the territory that would later become the states of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico 
The Mexican American War
400
Who was the woman who was influential in the fields of prison reform and the treatment of the mentally ill?
Dorothea Dix
400
Who was the famous, "Angel of the Battlefield," who would later go on to found the American
Red Cross?
Clara Barton
400
What is total war? 
Total war, a strategy developed by General Grant, was the idea that you must destroy anything and everything that allows your enemy to make war.
500
Which region had the most fertile soil and longest summers?
The Southern Colonial Region
500
After what victory in the Revolutionary War did France and Spain come to the aid of the American forces? 
Saratoga
500
Which amendment protects you from unreasonable searches and seizures?
4th Amendment
500
What was the, "Spoils System?" 
During the Jackson administration he often gave jobs to friends and political supporters. This was the spoils system.
500
What was the Trail of Tears and what President was responsible for the act?
The removal of the 5 civilized tribes from the American southeast. This was done at the order of Andrew Jackson
500
What was the Second Great Awakening? 
This was a religious revival that swept across the country
500
What two nations were considering coming in on the side of the Confederacy during the 
Civil War?
France and Great Britain. This was due to their dependence of Rebel Cotton. At the time the south was producing over 90% of the worlds cotton.
500
What battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River? 
The Battle of Vicksburg
600
What colonial region was referred to as the, "Breadbasket of the colonies?"
The Middle Colonies
600
Who were the three primary authors of the Declaration of Independence? 
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams
600
Which amendment protect you from cruel and unusual punishment?
The 8th Amendment
600
What were the two primary political parties of the Jefferson era?
The Federalist and Anti-Federalist
600
What does the Monroe Doctrine do?
It kept Europeans out of the Western hemisphere. This was due in large part to the Latin American revolutions that were taking place across the continent.
600
Who was the most famous abolitionist who was born a slave and would teach himself how to read and write, becoming a national hero?
Fredrick Douglass
600
What were the 4 slave states that stayed with the Union during the Civil War?
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware
600
What document did Lincoln claim his whole soul was in?
The Emancipation Proclamation
700
What colony was the first in New England
The Massachusetts Bay Colony or Massachusetts
700
Who was the English philosopher that Thomas Jefferson sampled from heavily when drafting the Declaration of Independence?
John Locke
700
What are the 5 freedoms given to you in the 1st Amendment?
Freedom of: Religion, Speech, Press, Petition, and Assembly
700
What is impressment?
Forcing a nations sailors to sail under a different flag
700
The United States would purchase the Louisiana Territory from France for just $15,000,000. Who was the French Emperor who sold that land to Thomas Jefferson?
Napoleon Bonaparte
700
Who is considered to be the, "Father of Public Schools?"
Horace Mann
700
What was sectionalism?
Sectionalism was the idea that within the United States different regions developed loyalty to those regions over their loyalty to the United States.
700
What does the 15th Amendment make the law of the land? 
The right of all men, regardless of race, to vote