US History 1
Group of department heads who advise the president.
What is a cabinet?
The first permanent British colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The group of religious settlers who founded Plymouth colony.
Who were Puritans?
3 regions of original colonies
What are New England, Middle and Southern Colonies?
The branch of government that interprets the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
George Washington was general in this war.
What is the Revolutionary War?
The first battle of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington & Concord?
A political system in which people vote for their representatives is called a.....
Representative Democracy/Democracy
The two main groups fighting in the French and Indian War.
Who were the French and the British?
A tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
The Federalists strongly supported this type of government.
What is a strong centralized government?
The leader of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Which document was made to cut ties between the 13 colonies and Great Britain?
The Declaration of Independence
The White House was burned by the British during this conflict.
What is the War of 1812?
Based on the U.S. Constitution, the government is run by...
What is The people?
The day the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
What is July, 4th. 1776?
Moses of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The first three words of the Constitution.
What is We the People?
This amendment guarantees the right to protest
What is the 1st Amendment?
The process of adding a piece of land or territory to a country.
What is annexation?
President who authorized the Indian Removal Act, resulting in the Trail of Tears. (He is on the $20 bill)
Who was Andrew Jackson?
What was the name of the meeting where the Constitution was drafted?
Constitutional Convention
The group of people who were loyal to King George III and Britain but living in the colonies during the American Revolution.
Who were Loyalists?
A transaction which doubled the size of the United States for $10 million
The transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and slaves between the Old World of Europe and Africa and the New World of the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange or Triangle Trade
Sam Adam's group of politically motivated patriots who sometimes resorted to violence.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing in the U.S.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This branch is responsible for making laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Well known abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The first incident of bloodshed of the American Revolution started with a snowball fight and ended with the death of the sailor Crispus Attucks.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The French and Indian War was won by this country.
What is Britain?
Cotton, indigo and tobacco are examples of....
Cash crop
The Constitution was written to replace this document
What is the The Articles of Confederation?
This President is known as the "Father of the Constitution"
Who is James Madison?
The path thousands of settlers took into the western part of the country.
What is the Oregon Trail?
The belief that Americans were meant to colonize the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
What is Manifest Destiny?
The British forcing American soldiers into military service.
What is impressment?
What year did the Mexican American War end?
What is 1848?
The leader of Britain during the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?