Women of Influence
She helped rescue over 700 slaves from Southern captivity as the conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
After this battle, Gen. George Washington accepted the surrender of British Gen. Cornwallis, thus ending the US War of Independence.
Yorktown
This amendment permits freedom of the press
1st Amendment
He led the Union Army against the South in the US Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant
The concept that drove Americans to settle the West, as if God wanted them to.
Manifest Destiny
Two famous suffragists attended the Seneca Falls Convention and got the ball rolling for women's rights. Name one of them.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
This fort in Baltimore harbor survived a British naval bombardment as proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Ft. McHenry
This amendment says you can't be forced to testify against yourself in court.
5th amendment
He is considered the Father of the US Constitution and served as the 4th president.
James Madison
Preserve the Union
She was the native who gave life-saving advice and guidance to Lewis and Clark.
Sacajawea
The site of the worst single day battle in US military history the ended in a draw between the North and the South.
Antietam
Article 1 of the Constitution created this branch of government.
Legislative
He wondered why any former slave should celebrate the 4th of July.
Frederick Douglass
Jefferson believed it to be self-evident that all humans are endowed by their Creator at their birth with certain things that government could not ever take away.
Unalienable rights
or
Life, liberty, & pursuit of happiness
While enslaved, she endured severe beatings but finally escaped the South with her infant daughter. She because a vocal abolitionist and orator.
Sojourner Truth
With the help of Tennessee sharp-shooters, Choctaw braves, pirates, and townspeople, this American colonel defeated a British Army in 1814 while defending this town.
New Orleans
This amendment prohibits excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
His Albany Plan was the first attempt to unite the 13 colonies into one collective unit for self-defense.
Ben Franklin
This is the one great power the Supreme Court has. The SC gave itself this power because of their ruling in Marbury vs. Madison.
Judicial Review
She was the wife of the second president, was his best friend and closest adviser, and had a mind as sharp as her husband.
Abigail Adams
This riverside town is where John Brown seized an armory hoping to arm slaves and start an uprising.
Harper's Ferry, WV
This amendment requires the police to have a warrant approved by a judge it they want to search your home.
4th Amendment
At Valley Forge, two different European aristocrats gave help to the US Continental Army. Name one.
The Marquis de Lafayette
Baron Friedrich von Steuben
Jefferson argued in the Declaration that governments are established by citizens and get their power from what? How did he word it?
From the consent of the governed.