An agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution
What is Articles of Confederation?
100
First president of the United States
Who is George Washington?
100
General of the Confederate States of American
Who is Robert E. Lee?
100
What was legal in the South during the 1800s that was not legal in the north?
What is slavery?
100
President Barack Obama belongs to this branch.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
The name of the path people took to get to Oregon.
What is the Oregon Trail?
200
Abolished Slavery in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
General of the Union Army
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
A person who hated slavery and wanted slaves to be free.
What is an abolitionist?
200
Each state has two of these, which represent it in Congress.
What is a senator.
300
The name given to the forced resettlement of Native Americans in the east to the west to current day Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
Female African American abolitionist and women's rights activist.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
300
The period that immediately followed the war, which let the South slowly join the United States again.
What is Reconstruction?
300
This document set slaves free in all of the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
The Senate and House of Representatives, otherwise known as congress, occupy this branch of government.
What is the Legislative Branch?
400
The belief that the US should own all the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
Founded the Red Cross
Who is Clara Barton?
400
Famous battle, which took place in modern day Texas, where the Republic of Texas was defeated by Mexico.
What is the Battle of Alamo?
400
This law, which kept African Americans separate from whites, was in force until 1954.
What is segregation?
400
There are 9 supreme court judges in this branch of government.
What is the Judicial Branch?
500
The first 10 amendments of the US Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
Created the first generation of American mental asylums
Who is Dorothea Dix?
500
The battle where the Republic of Texas beat Mexico.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
500
The document created by Abraham Lincoln to set slaves free in 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
The term used to make sure no branch has more power than any other.