Military Interventions
Oregon Trail
Creating a New Government
Road to Revolution
Miscellaneous
100
This location is known as the beginning of the American Revolution where the "shot heard round the world" occurred.
What is Lexington and Concord?
100
The acquisition of land which almost doubled the size of the United States for $15 million dollars from Napoleon and the French.
What is the Louisiana Purchase/Territory?
100
This initial form of government gave too much power to the states and did not include enough central government authority.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
This document formed a list of grievances against the British crown and formally separated the colonies.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
Separation of Power refers to the specific roles of these three entities.
What are the Executive, Legislature, and Judiciary Branches?
200
The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key through observations of the culmination of this war.
What is the War of 1812?
200
The United States not only could, but is destined to stretch from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
A meeting in 1787 which addressed the weak initial government and led to a defining document in our nation's history.
What is the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
200
This order was put into effect after the British acquisition of French territory in North America after the French and Indian War. The order forbade any settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
200
A list of rights and freedoms afforded to the American people in the form of initial amendments to the constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
This battle forced the eventual surrender of the British Army during the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
300
Andrew Jackson negotiated with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for ancestral homelands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
300
This system of government is based upon democratic rule where power is shared between the national and state governments.
What is federalism?
300
A political protest and destruction of tea by the Sons of Liberty.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
President James Monroe is known for his foreign policy, which stated that any efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention through this document.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
This person served as the General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and then as the inaugural President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
400
This compromise prohibited the practice of slavery in the countries western territories north of the 36'30 parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
A system where no one power of the United States government can become too powerful and overthrow the others
What is Checks and Balances?
400
A piece of writing which inspired people in the thirteen colonies to declare and fight for their independence.
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
400
John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and J.P. Morgan are all known as
What are Robber Barons and/or Captains of Industry?
500
Abraham Lincoln gave this famous speech at this famous battle site of the Civil War.
What is the Gettysburg Address and the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
This policy repealed the Missouri Compromise and added two new states to the Union (one as a slave state, and one as a "free" state).
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
This landmark court case introduced the power of judicial review to the judiciary system for means of declaring an act of congress unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison
500
Term in history that refers to the 17th and 18th-century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England.
What is Salutary Neglect?
500
State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States after Reconstruction. Repealed in 1965.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
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