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100
Group of department heads who advise the president.
What is a cabinet?
100
Name Native American Tribes
Each one is 100 points
Inuit
Kwakiutl,
Lakota,
Pueblo
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100
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
What are the Seven Continents?
North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia/Oceania, and Antartica
100
What is the Definition of the word: Colony
A settlement far from home, ruled by the home country.
100
The branch of government that interprets the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
100
Which war was George Washington a general in?
Revolutionary War
100
The first battle of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington & Concord?
200
Name the first 3 US Presidents.
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison
200
The two main groups fighting in the French and Indian War.
Who were the French and the British?
200
A tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
200
Where was Abrahmam Lincoln Shot?
Ford's Theater
200
What are some things traded in the Great Exchange? (List at least 3 things)
Tobacco, Corn, Chocolate, Potatoes, Chickens, Cattle, Wheat, Oats, Rice, etc.
200
Stated the INDEPENDENCE of the 13 American colonies from Britain
The Declaration of Independence
200
The White House was burned by the British during this conflict.
What is the War of 1812?
200
What is the Boston Tea Party
A political Protest that occurred on December 16 in Massachusetts
American colonists, upset about the taxes, dumped 342 barrels of tea into the Boston harbor.
300
Name Founding Fathers: Each one is 100 points
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay
300
Moses of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
What are the 3 Main reasons people Explored?
Economics,
Power,
Religion
300
This amendment guarantees the right to protest
What is the 1st Amendment?
300
The process of adding a piece of land or territory to a country.
What is annexation?
300
President involved with the nullification crisis, war with the National Bank, and Indian Removal.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
300
Who was the king during the Revolutionary Era?
George III
300
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?
400
Slavery was Abolished in 1865
True or False?
True.
400
The first permanent British colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
400
This President is known as the "Father of the Constitution"
Who is James Madison?
400
Who was the President when the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed
A: Abraham Lincoln
B: John Adams
C: John Jay
B: John Adams
400
This branch is responsible for making laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
400
Well known abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
What was the Boston Massacre.
Acts that forced taxes created tension amongst the colonists. This caused a confrontation in which British soldiers shot and killed several people in a crowd. This was one of the main events that caused the American Revolution.
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400
The French and Indian War was won by this country.
What is Britain?
500
A transaction in which the size of the United States was doubled for $10 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
500
The Constitution was written to replace this document
What is the The Articles of Confederation?
500
The day the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
What is July, 4th. 1776?
500
3 regions of original colonies
What are New England, Middle and Southern Colonies?
500
What is Manifest Destiny?
The belief that Americans were meant to colonize the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
500
The British forcing American soldiers into military service.
What is impressment?
500
The leader of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
500
What does this image show Historically?
This image shows Paul Revere, a Boston Silversmith and an express rider, who took an urgent message to Lexington, and warned the sleeping Patriots that the British were coming.