Geography
1. What is the largest mountain range in the U.S.?
2. What is the largest ocean?
1. Rockies
2. Pacific
The Middle Passage was so bad, it led people to
a. Kill themselves
B. Refuse to eat
C. Jump Overboard
D. All of the above
D
Sacajawea
a person who did not want to separate from Great Britain
Loyalist
What was the colonists' motto in the Revolution?
No Taxation Without Representation
Name the famous Patriot in the Sons of Liberty.
Samuel Adams
Name the 3 branches of the U.S. government. (all or nothing)
Legislative, Judicial, Executive
How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?
What item did the Townshend Act tax?
Imported tea
Jefferson hired these 2 men to explore the newly purchased Louisiana territory.
Louis & Clark
Name of the people who traveled to California looking for gold
forty-niners
What did a conductor on the Underground Railroad do?
help escaped slaves travel to Canada
1. In what city was the Second Continental Congress?
1. Philadelphia
1. Was Ben Franklin a Loyalist or Patriot?
2. What is Juneteenth?
1. Patriot
2. June 19th - celebrates the day when slaves in TX learned that they were free
What did the Quartering Act allow British troops to do?
Stay in the homes of the colonists without their consent
Name the 4 cardinal directions on a compass rose.
North, South, East, West
The exchange of enslaved people and goods between Africa, the Americas, and Europe was called ______________
the Triangle Trade
Who owned Texas before the U.S.A.?
Mexico
a person who wanted to separate from Great Britain
Patriot
What was Eli Whitney's famous invention?
cotton gin
Name 2 allies of the Americans during the Revolutionary War
What state didn't have a delegate to the Constitutional Convention?
Rhode Island
For 100 points, name 1 way American citizens can participate in their government. For 200 points, name 2 ways.
vote, participate in a peaceful protest
Father of the Consitution and main writer of the Bill of Rights
James Madison
1. What mountain range did Louis & Clark map?
2. Name a negative impact of manifest destiny.
1. The Rockies
2. Displacement of Native Americans
Chinese immigrants famously built ______________
railroads
1. Why did the South depend on slaves and the North did not?
2. Who was the lead Confederate General?
1. Slavery was "needed" to make plantations run in the south whereas it wasn't needed for factory work in the North
2. Robert E. Lee
1. Where did the South surrender?
2. Clara Barton is the founder of _______________-
1. Appomattox Court House
2. The American Red Cross
What does the 2nd amendment protect?
right to bear arms
Who was Crispus Attucks?
first American killed in the Boston Massacre/the American Revolution
What kind of map shows
1. borders between countries and cities?
2. natural features?
1. Political
2. Physical
After the American Revolution, what document was written to limit power of the central government? (Hint: gave states power)
Articles of Confederation
Approximately how many decades did the French and Indian War last?
1
John Hancock
Washington crossed the Delaware from ____________(state) to ____________(state).
Pennsylvania to New Jersey
Ended the war between the British and colonists
legislative
What is a Miranda warning?
police officers read you your rights during an arrest
This 3rd POTIS (president of the United States) wrote "a nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society."
Jefferson
Remember _________________(fort) was the cry for Texans fighting for freedom.
the Alamo
What ultimately happened to the Nez Perce?
They were forced off their land.
1. Which abolitionist started "Bleeding Kansas"?
2. Whose march helped end the Civil War?
1. John Brown
2. Sherman's March
1. True or False: Doctors washed and disinfected their equipment during the Civil War. (Explain if false.)
2. True or False: More people died of disease in the Civil War than anything else. (Explain if false.)
1. False
2. True
Name 3 ways the Declaration of Independence is protected
1. special case
2. protective glass
3. restored parchment
4. lowered at night into a vault
Which colony didn't attend the First Continental Congress in 1774?
Georgia
What 4 states can you stand on at the same time?
Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico
Name the president of the Constitutional Convention.
George Washington
The amount of money the Louisiana Purchase cost
15 million dollars
Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
1. What is the largest state in the U.S.?
2. What is the southernmost state in the U.S.?
3. What do you call a stream that runs into a large river?
4. What is the capital of N.J.?
1. Alaska
2. Hawaii
3. tributary
4. Trenton
Name a disadvantage and an advantage the colonists had.
Disadvantages: smaller and untrained army, less money for weapons
Advantages: home-field advantage, stronger motivation, foreign allies
Which Massachusetts soldier took part in an armed revolt that tried to stop state courts from taking property? (The Rebellion was also named after him.)
Daniel Shay
How many amendments are there in total?
27
Which 2 groups fought in the French and Indian War?
Britain and France
What president promised to take control of Oregon Country?
Polk
Spanish speaking people who lived in the West before White Settlers arrived
Californios
1. Who was Henry Clay?
2. What was the first state to secede from the Union?
1. Kentucky senator who created the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
2. South Carolina
What 2 battles were turning points in the Civil War?
Antietam and Gettysburg
What was the 3/5 Compromise?
Enslaved people "counted" as 3/5 of a person for the population count in the House of Representatives, which determined how many representatives a state could send to Congress
To raise money after the French and Indian War, the British enacted the _________________.
Stamp Act
In what region are the Great Plains located? (Select 1 answer A-F.)
A. Northeast
B. Southeast
C. Midwest
D. South
E. West Coast
F. Southwest
C
A public sale sold to the highest bidder is called _______
an auction
Jefferson was willing to pay the French $10 million for ___________.
New Orleans
What branch of government
1. can override a veto?
2. reject unconstitutional laws?
3. nominate a Supreme Court Justice?
4. How many Supreme Court Justices are there?
5. Title of the head judge on the Supreme Court.
1. Legislative
2. Judicial
3. Executive
4. 9
5. Chief Justice
Who wrote the article "Common Sense"?
Thomas Paine
Soldiers hired by the British army who weren't British
Hessians/mercenaries
Whose idea was the Great Compromise?
Robert Sherman
Fill in the blank. "I plead the ______."
5th
After the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed several acts called the Coercive Acts. What is another name for these acts?
Intolerable
This was America's final acquisition of the time, bought from Mexico.
Gadsden purchase
1. _______________ moved west looking for religious freedom.
2. _________________ loaded canvas-covered wagons and moved west looking for a better life
1. Mormons
2. Oregon Pioneers
1. He wrote the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator"
2. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? (be specific)
1. William Lloyd Garrison
2. free slaves in the Confederate states
1. What was the first battle of the Civil War?
2. To whom did Lee surrender?
3. What was the capital of the Confederacy?
4. Who was president of the Confederacy?
5. What were the colors of the Union and Confederacy?
1. Fort Sumter or Battle of Bull Run
2. Grant
3. Richmond, VA
4. Jefferson Davis
5. blue and grey/tan
Where do all lines of longitude meet?
The poles
What did the Proclamation of 1763 say?