Key People
He was the first president of the United States of America
Who is George Washington?
It created the first framework of the United States government and gave most powers to the States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Enlightenment thinker who argued for "natural rights" and was an inspiration to the Founding Fathers.
Who is John Locke?
1492
What is the arrival of Christopher Columbus in Hispaniola?
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
Republican, 16th President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A document that the Pilgrims signed that provided a framework of self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
It established a border along the Appalachian mountains and limited the self-rule belief of the American colonists.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
The year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
What is 1776?
He led the Union's forces as their main general during the Civil War and would later become the 18th president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Bleeding Kansas was a result of this act, which allowed popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
Author of the Great Compromise, which created a bicameral legislature.
Who is Roger Sherman?
The year of the Constitutional Convention and drafting of the Constitution.
What is 1787?
The bloodiest day of US History.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
It ruled that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not citizens and that Congress did not have the power to ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?
It ended the Revolutionary War and granted American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
The month and year that Battle of Gettysburg happens, a significant moment of the Civil War.
What is July, 1863?
The first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Democrat, 11th President.
Who is James K. Polk?
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Two of the three examples given of antifederalists who opposed the Constitution.
Who is George Mason, Patrick Henry, and Samuel Adams?
The month, day, and year that the Civil War ends.
What is April 9, 1865?
The place where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces.
What is Appomattox, Virginia?