Dates
The year Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement, was founded.
What is 1607?
The primary author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The year the U.S. Constitution was written in Philadelphia
What is 1787?
The 1803 territorial acquisition that doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The specific years during which the American Civil War was fought.
What is 1861–1865?
This 1620 document established a "social contract" for self-government in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 1777 battle was the turning point of the war because it convinced France to support the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This compromise settled the dispute over how to count enslaved people for representation and taxes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This policy warned European nations not to interfere or colonize in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This Constitutional Amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The primary reason the Pilgrims and Puritans established colonies in New England.
What is religious freedom?
The French aristocrat who volunteered to help George Washington and the Continental Army.
Who is the
Marquis de Lafayette
?
The first ten amendments added to the Constitution to protect individual liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The 1803 Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The 1863 battle that is considered the "High Water Mark" and turning point for the Union.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The first representative assembly in the American colonies, located in Virginia
What is the House of Burgesses?
This slogan expressed colonial anger over taxes passed by Parliament without their consent.
What is "No Taxation without Representation"?
This group opposed the Constitution because they feared a strong central government and wanted a Bill of Rights.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
The forced removal of Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma under Andrew Jackson’s administration.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln to dedicate a cemetery and honor fallen soldiers
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This policy restricted colonial trade to only the British Empire, fueling anger toward the King.
What is Mercantilism?
This final major battle of the Revolution resulted in the surrender of General Cornwallis.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The constitutional principle that allows each branch of government to limit the power of the others.
What are Checks and Balances?
The belief that the United States was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This agency was created during Reconstruction to provide food, shelter, and education to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?