Colonization
The year of the first Permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown, Virginia.
What is 1607 (1 Throw)
Served as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington? (1 Throw)
The year the Constitution was written!
What is 1787? (1 Throw)
Name and year of the largest land purchase in United States history made by President Thomas Jefferson!
What is the Louisiana Purchase in 1803? (1 Throw)
Years of the Civil War!
What is 1861 to 1865? (1 Throw)
Name of document signed by group in 1620 that was first form of democratic government in America – gave each man one vote.
What is the Mayflower Compact? (1 Throws)
Was the site of the Revolutionary War battle that was considered the “turning point” of the war.
What is Saratoga, NY? (2 Throws)
Separation of powers is a doctrine of constitutional law under which the three branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial) are kept separate. This is also known as the system of
What are Checks and Balances? (2 Throws)
Name for American belief that the North American continent was theirs for the taking!
What is Manifest Destiny? (2 throws)
President of the United States and the President of the Confederacy during Civil War years!
Who is US President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate President Jefferson Davis? (2 Throws)
Colonial Region known for cash crops like tobacco, indigo, sugar, rice, and much later cotton. Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas!
What is the South? (2 Throws)
The year and means by which America told England it wanted to be its own nation!
What is 1776 and the Declaration of Independence? (2 Throws)
Prominent Federalists
Who are James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay? (3 Throws)
Foreign policy doctrine that made the United States the protector of the Western Hemisphere!
What is the Monroe Doctrine? (3 Throws)
Region of the United States that had the advantage during the Civil War –
•More industry
•More people
•More trains & tracks?
What is the North? (2 Throws)
Home to shipbuilders, tradesmen, and that Puritan work ethic – Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Roade Island, and Connecticut!
What is New England? (2 Throw)
Village in Massachusetts where colonists first fired on the British.
What is Concord and Lexington? (3 Throws)
Process by which Supreme Court validates or invalidates the laws passed by Congress!
What is Judicial Review? (2 Throws)
The last piece of land to become a part of the continental United States?
What is the Gadsden Purchase? (2 Throws)
Name of the people that were against slavery. (Hint Frederick Douglass)
Who are Abolitionists? (2 Throws)
British colonists wanted to take over French land in North America in the Ohio River Valley.
British soldiers fought against French soldiers and Native Americans.
Native Americans joined against the British because they were afraid the British would take over their land.
What is the French and Indian War (1754-1763) (3 Throws)
Ended the French and Indian War. Also as a result of the war, the British began taxing the colonists to pay for the war and the proclamation line of 1763 was established to keep colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is Treaty of Paris (1763)? (3 Throws)
If I’m not careful, I could be killed at any one of many steps I have to go through just to get to survive. What am I?
What is I’M A BILL TRYING TO BE A LAW? (3 Throws)
Main economic reason industrialization and urbanization occurred during the expansion era!
What is the industrial revolution that sprang out of the development of the factory system that used interchangeable parts? (3 Throws)
Battle site that was turning point in war and helped the North achieve victory.
What is Gettysburg? (3 Throws)