We the people
This woman led many enslaved African Americans to freedom. She is slated to be placed on the $20 bill.
Who is Harriet Tubman
This island just south of us was home to the first (failed) English settlement in the New World. We went on a field trip there!
What is Roanoke Island
These are additions to the Constitution. We know them by their numbers.
What are amendments
This war established the US as a free and independent nation.
What is the American Revolution (or Revolutionary War)
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
"Sir!" This man is perhaps best known for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
Who is Aaron Burr
This was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
What is Richmond, VA
The murder of a prominent person - Lincoln's fate just 5 days after the end of the Civil War.
What is assassination
This era, powered by the steam engine, led to a rise of industry and technology in both the US and Europe.
What is the Industrial Revolution
According to Ben Franklin, nothing can be certain except death and these - money paid to the government.
Taxes
The leader of the Confederate Army. Brantley likes to rap about him.
Who is Robert E. Lee
After blowing wildly off-course, the Mayflower landed at this stonily-named location in Massachusetts.
What is Plymouth Rock
This term refers to the refusal to buy a certain product - like tea during the Revolution.
What is a boycott
This scandal led to Nixon's resignation.
What is the Watergate Scandal
This document contains the famous line, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
What is the Declaration of Independence
This young Powhatan woman traveled to England in 1617 - only to contract a European illness and die.
Who is Pocahontas
This NC region, closest to the ocean, lacks hills or mountains. We live here!
What is the Coastal Plain
These post-Civil War laws enforced segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws
This expedition, known as the Corps of Discovery at the time, takes its better-known name from the two men who led it (but leaves out the woman who helped them!)
What is the Lewis and Clark expedition
The Preamble of this document begins, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union..."
This hero of the Battle of New Orleans is also known for forcibly removing thousands of Cherokee people from their homes.
Who is Andrew Jackson
Duke University, UNC, and NC State are all located near this hub of industry in central NC.
What is the Research Triangle Park
___________ & ____________ - the balance of power between different branches of the US government. It keeps any one branch from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances
This conflict led to the US acquiring Texas.
What is the Mexican-American war
"O captain, my captain!"
Also, "I am large, I contain multitudes."