This document preceded the Constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation
The Federalist strongly supported a
What is a strong centralized government
The first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights
President during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Explorers of Louisiana Territory
Lewis and Clark
Significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
What is made a name for Abraham Lincoln due to his debate skills and stance on slavery?
What political cartoon, illustrated by Ben Franklin, became famous first during the French/Indian War and again during the Revolutionary War?
"Join or Die"
He is known as the father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
This person was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for their religious views and moved to the Rhode Island Colony
Anne Hutchinson
This act allowed British soldiers the right to stay in colonists' homes while occupying colonies. Many colonists did not like this act.
What is the Quartering Act
What are the three branches of the government?
What is the :
Judicial Branch
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
The numbered amendment for freedom of speech and of the press
The numbered amendment for freedom of speech and of the press
He is the First President of the United States
Who is George Washington?
The purchase of land from France in 1803 that nearly doubled the size of the United States
what is the Louisiana Purchase
Warned that the US would not tolerate any more colonization in the Americas
What is the Monroe Doctrine
Who started the Mexican American War? Why was it started? What was the result?
US
disagreement over Texas border (because we wanted California)
US won and got the territory of California for much cheaper than before.
This founding father had the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
After sailors were captured and forced to serve in a foreign navy
What was impressment?
The first document in the America's that encouraged self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This legislative branch has 435 elected members.
What is the House of Representatives?
The numbered amendment protecting from searches and seizures without a warrant
What is the Fourth Amendment?
Who was the president of The Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
A law allowing citizens free land in the west.
What is the Homestead Act?
What governing document did the US use before the Constitution?
The Articles of Confederation
What is the revolutionary war and the war of 1812?
Thomas Jefferson first used this English philosopher's thoughts on political philosophy when contributing to the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
The rush to California by Forty-niners and others
What is the gold rush
This Document that incited the American Revolution
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Because the US has two houses of legislation, the US has this type of legislative system.
What is bicameralism?
What was the "deal breaking" clause that Anti-federalist required the Constitution to include for ratification?
Bill of Rights
Name one of the two presidents during 1789 - 1845 that had no children - just one.
Who is the First President, George Washington, 1789-1797 and the Fourth President, James Madison, 1809-1817/
The earliest trail, used mostly for trade, moving cattle, and military.
What is The Santa Fe Trail?
A run-away slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement and special advisor to Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Whose argument resulted in the creation of the Federalist and Anti-Federalists?
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
This colony is the birthplace of the first president.
What is Virginia?
3 things that Andrew Jackson was known for in his presidency
What is: Opposing the national bank, the spoils system, trail of tears, going against a supreme court ruling,
What didn't the Articles of Confederation last?
It made the federal government too weak, and foreign governments didn't know if the US was one country or 13 separate countries
How many Supreme Court Justices are there currently?
What is 9
The numbered amendment for lawsuits over $20 to have a right of trial by jury
What is the Seventh Amendment?
America's second president
John Adams
Land "annexed" by the U.S. after Americans captured Santa Anna, the Mexican general. Sam Houston became the first President of the Republic formed by this land.
What is the Annexation of Texas, or Texas Annexation?
Effects of the cotton gin on US economy?
What is made the country reliant of slave labor, made cotton the main agricultural crop of the US which ultimately destroyed the economy after the war.
Which treaty ended the Mexican American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildalgo
_______________ said, "The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."
Who is George Washington?
Belief Americans should own land from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans
What was Manifest Destiny?
The Alien Acts granted the president the power to
What is expel or imprison immigrants
How many electoral votes must a candidate win to become President?
270
The numbered amendment for people to keep and bear Arms
What is the Second Amendment?
This Democratic President that never married.
Who is James Buchanan (1857-1861)?
A 1954 agreement that settled land disputes, adding the final land to what we now know as The United States of America. This land was critical in being able to build a transcontinental railroad in the southern U.S.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
Made all escaped slaves fugitives. Southerners could go into the North to legally retrieve their slaves
What tactics were used by the Patriots, specifically the Southern Patriots, during the Revolutionary War?
What is Guerilla Warfare
This 1972 musical featured the song Dam you Mr. Adams
What is 1716
The 2nd revival of religious feeling in the United States?
What is the Second Great Awakening
The forced removal of Indian trips west of the Mississippi
What is the trail of tears/Indian Removal Act?
How old must you be to run for the Senate?
What is 30
The numbered amendment protecting from searches and seizures without a warrant
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This Republican was the first president to receive the Nobel Peace Price in 1906
Who is the twenty-six president, Theodore Roosevelt?
The United States battled with this group over land in Florida.
Who are the Seminoles/What are the Seminole Wars?
The political party supported slavery and was mostly located in the south?
Who is the Democratic Party
After the Revolutionary War, many veterans were not getting their paychecks for their service. Many veterans protested, overthrowing a Massachusetts court house and freeing those imprisoned for their debts. What was this event?
What is the Shays' Rebellion
_____________ said “Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.” ...
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The party that supported industry, a growing centralized government, and rule by property owners
Who is the Federalist