The Early Settlers
Many of the early settlers came to the new colonies for this reason.
What is religious freedom?
"No taxation without representation" was the reason for this major "party."
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The Declaration of Independence was signed in this city.
What is Philadelphia?
This famous president of the Civil War was born in Illinois.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Congress established this to provide food and aid to newly freed slaves.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
For the most part, the early settlers got along with this group of people.
Who are First Nations people (or Native Americans)?
He was the famous commander of the U.S. Army who later became president.
Who was George Washington?
This purchase of 530,000,000 acres from the French in 1803 expanded America west.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The southern states were known as this during the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
These laws were unfair laws regarding the treatment of black Americans in the period after the Civil War.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This was the first major English settlement/town.
What is Jamestown?
British soldiers were often called this because of the color of their coats.
Who are Redcoats?
Washington's Inauguration was in this city, where Federal Hall was located.
What is New York City?
He was the President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This popular war general was elected president after Andrew Johnson (who took over after Lincoln's assassination).
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This was a religious group that came over on the Mayflower.
Who are Puritans?
This was the year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
He was America's first secretary of the treasury, and now has a musical about his life.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This battle was the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This was the first state readmitted to the Union.
What is Tennessee?
The vast majority of early colonists did this for a living.
What is farming?
Although he was not the only one, this messenger famously rode down the street on horseback shouting "The British are coming!"
Who is Paul Revere?
In 1791 the first 10 amendments to the U.S. constitution were ratified by Congress, and they are also known as this.
What are the Bill of Rights?
This general surrendered at the Appomattox Courthouse.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The 13th amendment abolished this in 1865.
What is slavery?