"Colonial America"
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607?
What is Jamestown?
What year was the Declaration of Independence drafted/signed??
What is 1776?
Who was the second president of the United States??
What invention in 1793 increased the demand for enslaved labor in the South?
What is the cotton gin?
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Indepedence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What was the main cash crop of the Virginia colony that fueled its economy?
What is Tobacco?
What treaty officially ended the American Revolution in 1783?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
What land deal doubled the size of the United States in 1803?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
What compromise in 1820 attempted to balance free and slave states?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Who delivered the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What event in 1692 reflected tensions over religion, gender, and class in Puritan New England?
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
What rebellion of farmers in Massachusetts highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation??
What is Shay's Rebellion?
What Supreme Court case established the principle of Judicial Review?
What is Marbury v. Madison?
What 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe inflamed antislavery sentiment in the North?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Who was known as the "Father of the Constitution?"
Who is James Madison?
This historical document signed by passengers that landed in Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts was one of the earliest forms of American democracy...
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Who wrote Common Sense, urging Americans to declare Independence?
Who is Thomas Paine?
What rebellion in 1794 tested the federal government's ability to enforce laws?
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
What rebellion in 1831 resulted in white mobs killing hundreds of enslaved and free Black people?
What is Nat Turner's rebellion?
Who was the enslaved African American who escaped to freedom, became a leading abolitionist, and wrote an autobiography in 1845?
Who is Frederick Douglass??
What was the name of the 1730s–1740s religious revival that spread through the colonies?
What is The Great Awakening?
What was the name of the 1730s–1740s religious revival that spread through the colonies?
What is the Great Compromise?
What was the name of the 1823 doctrine warning European powers to stay out of the Americas?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What 1857 Supreme Court case declared African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Who was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
Who is Jefferson Davis?