Geography
The only colony missing from the First Continental Congress
What is Georgia?
The Declaration of Independence was drafted by a Committee of _____.
What is Five?
Author of the pamphlet Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine?
The major issue of the election of 1808 was an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country otherwise known as the _____ Act.
What is the Embargo Act?
President's wife who wrote to her husband to "remember the ladies" when writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Abigail Adams?
The American Revolution was ended by the 1783 Treaty of ___, the name of an important European capital.
What is Paris?
The Declaration of Independence was drafted by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and the 3rd President of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
In the 18th century, this country had the best navy in the world.
What is Great Britain?
England instituted this policy of kidnapping American sailors and merchants to serve in the British navy.
What is impressment?
This uprising took the name of a farmer and revolutionary war veteran who protested bank foreclosures.
What is Shays Rebellion?
President Jefferson refused to pay tribute to pirates from this North African region.
What is the Barbary Coast?
The Preamble of this important US document begins "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union..."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Supreme Court decision that established the policy of judicial review was named for this "Midnight Judge" in _____ v. Madison.
Who was William Marbury?
A _____ is a a tax that a government imposes on the import or export of goods and services.
What is a tariff?
This fraction was used to count enslaved people in the southern states for the purpose of taxation and representation.
What is three-fifths?
The purpose of this journey from 1804 to 1806 was to find a continuous waterway across North America.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Name of the first "constitution" that governed the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This Shoshone woman helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory.
Who was Sacagawea?
Thomas Jefferson wanted America to be a nation of this occupation.
What are farmers?
These Acts lengthened the residency requirement for sedition and authorized the president to deport or imprison any alien he felt dangerous.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
The XYZ Affair was important because it angered the American public against this country.
What is France?
The presidency of this president was known as the Era of Good Feelings.
Who is James Monroe?
This “Great Compromiser" proposed to bring Maine into the Union as a free state but allow slavery in Missouri.
Who was Henry Clay?
The 1803 acquisition of 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River from France by the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Founding father who is credited with inventing bifocals, a different kind of stove, and the discovery of electricity.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?