Columbus’s first voyage to the New World occurred during what year?
1492
100
The U.S. doubled in size after buying the __________ from France in 1803.
Louisiana Territory
100
Name the act that required all printed materials in colonial America to be taxed by the British.
Stamp Act
100
What are the three branches of government?
Executive, Legislative, Judicial
100
What were people who traveled to California around 1849 hoping to find?
Gold
200
Pilgrims who started the Plymouth Colony arrived on what ship?
Mayflower
200
Which notable figure in U.S. history was an abolitionist, fought for women’s rights, and wrote an autobiography about his years as a slave?
Frederick Douglass
200
What event featured angry colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor to protest Britain's tea tax?
Boston Tea Party
200
What do we call the first 10 amendments?
Bill of Rights
200
Which amendment promises well-regulated militias the right to bear arms?
Second Amendment
300
In 1607, the first British colony in America was settled in what city?
Jamestown
300
_______________ was the belief that Americans were destined to spread and settle the continent, from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans.
Manifest Destiny
300
What acts did Britain pass in response to the Boston Tea Party?
Intolerable Acts
300
What was the name of the original document that joined the states, prior to the Constitution?
Articles of Confederation
300
Who was the commanding general of the American revolutionary army?
George Washington
400
Columbus discovered the Caribbean Islands and claimed them for what European country?
Spain
400
She fought for women’s rights during the mid 1800s and is most remembered for her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech.
Sojourner Truth
400
Who wrote the line, “Who hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”?
Thomas Jefferson
400
The Constitution states that Congress wouldn't address the issue of slavery for how many years after 1788?
20 years
400
The __________ Party took a shortcut on their way to California and became trapped on the Sierra Nevada mountains, eventually being forced to eat dead bodies to survive.
Donner
500
The Seven Years War was fought between which two nations?
France & Great Britain
500
President ______________ signed the Indian Removal Act, which forcibly moved Native Americans west of the Mississippi River.
Andrew Jackson
500
In what Massachusetts town did the Revolutionary War begin?
Lexington
500
Name all five freedoms listed in the 1st Amendment.
Speech, Religion, Press, Assemble, Petition
500
The First Continental Congress was formed in which city?