Colonization
American Revolution
The New Republic
Westward Expansion
Civil War/
Reconstruction
100
When was Jamestown founded?
1607
100
What was the last battle of the Revolutionary War?
Yorktown
100
Which amendment guarantees the protection from unreasonable search and seizure?
4th
100
What court case ruled Cherokee Indians could not be moved from their land?
Worcester v. Georgia
100
What amendment freed all slaves?
13th
200
Which colonies had shipbuilding and manufactoring?
New England
200
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
200
What does Quartering mean?
housing of soldiers in private homes
200
A time of peace, progress, and pride from 1815-1825 was known as what?
Era of Good Feeling
200
Where did Lee surrender to Grant?
Appomattox Courthouse
300
What was the religious movement in the colonies led by Johnathan Edwards?
Great Awakening
300
What declared no person could be forced to attend a particular church or pay a church tax?
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
300
Which branch of the government includes the president?
executive
300
What is the idea that people can rise above their desire for material goods?
Transcendentalism
300
What woman helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad?
Harriett Tubman
400
Who wrote the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
Thomas Hooker
400
What document formally announced the colonies' break from Great Britain?
the Declaration of Independence
400
What act banned all trade with foreign countries?
the Embargo Act
400
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
400
What act made it a crime to help runaway slaves?
Fugitive Slave Act
500
What bill made it a crime to restrict religious freedoms of Christians?
Toleration Act 1649
500
Who founded the Committees of Correspondence?
Samuel Adams
500
What were the people who favored the Constitution called?
Federalists
500
Why did so many Irish people come to America during the 1840's?
There was a potato famine in Ireland
500
What court case ruled that segregation was legal?
Plessy v. Ferguson
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