Established in 1607 to become England's first permanent colony in North America.
What is the Jamestown Colony?
100
This is when the War of 1812 started.
What is 1812?
100
Event on the night of March 5, 1770 where British redcoats killed 5 colonists in a shooting.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
This document was signed by 39 delegates and published on September 17, 1787. Replaced the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitution?
100
Known as the philosophy of Westward Expansion.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
These colonies were known for forests, rocky soil, brutal winters, shipbuilding, fishing, trading, Pilgrims, the Mayflower Compact, and education.
What were the New England Colonies?
200
Led the American forces to a victory over the British during the Battle of New Orleans.
What is Andrew Jackson?
200
Colonists disguised themselves as Indians and dumped 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
System that allowed each branch to limit the powers of the other branch.
What is checks and balances?
200
Settlers came to California in 1849 in search of gold.
What is the Gold Rush?
300
Known for diversity, tolerance, religious freedom, iron ore, Quakers, William Penn, commerce, grain, and livestock.
What were the Middle Colonies?
300
Best known as the first major victory in the War of 1812 for the Americans.
What is the Battle of Lake Erie?
300
A British victory in 1775 over colonial forces near Charleston, Massachusetts.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
300
One of the most significant parts of the Article of Confederation, it established a system for setting up governments in Western territories to join the Union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
300
Forced Indians to leave their homes and move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
400
Known for slaves, wetlands, tobacco, rice, indigo, cotton plantations, religious freedom, and Jamestown.
What were the Southern colonies?
400
Wrote the national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner after the victory at Fort McHenry.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
400
Groups organized during the American Revolution, to inform colonists of important events.
What are Committees of Correspondence?
400
Form of government divided between the federal government and the states.
What is federalism?
400
This was land purchased from France for $15 million, which opened up land west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
500
Started Pennsylvania so Quakers could live according to their beliefs.
Who was William Penn?
500
This building was burned down by the British during the War of 1812.
What is the White House?
500
Last battle of the American Revolution in 1781, an American victory, which forced the British to surrender.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
500
Introduction that explained the purpose of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble.
500
Trail that started in Missouri and ended in Oregon.