Famous People
1st President of the United States
"Cash crop" grown in the south which required a lot of manual labor provided by slaves.
What is cotton?
Direction settlers travelled to expand the United States from its original 13 colonies along the Atlantic coast.
What is west?
Ocean on the east coast of the US where the original 13 colonies were located
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
First organization of government that lasted 10 years before being replaced by the Constitution still in use today.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
President Jefferson purchased this large area of land from France which doubled the size of the US. He also sent Lewis and Clark to explore and map the land.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
Main author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd US President
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
People against slavery and who worked to outlaw its existence and helped slaves escape to freedom in the north.
Who are abolitionists?
Western state where gold was discovered in 1849 that led to its population expanding and being admitted to the union as a free state in 1850
What is California?
Ocean on the west coast of the US where present day California, Washington, and Oregon are located
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Branch of government that MAKES laws... consisting of the House and the Senate?
What is the legislative branch?
Groups of people who have similar ideas about government. Federalists and Democratic-Republicans were the first two in the US.
What are political parties?
Wrote the Star Spangled Banner during the War of 1812
Who was Francis Scott Key?
Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that described the lives of a slave family and increased the publics desire to outlaw slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Idea the US was destined to control all the lands "from sea to shining sea?"
What is Manifest Destiny?
Name of the 5 large freshwater lakes located in northern US and bordered by Canada
What are the Great Lakes?
Branch of government headed by the Supreme Court which INTERPRETS laws
What is the judicial branch?
Idea that states can ignore federal laws and not follow them. This occurred when South Carolina refused to pay tariffs in 1828
What was nullification?
"Conductor" of the Underground Railroad and scheduled to be printed on the $20 bill
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Slave who escaped to freedom in the north and went on to give speeches against slavery and publish a newspaper, The North Star.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Missouri Compromise of 1820 admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state in exchange for this state, created out of Massachusetts, being admitted as a free state.
What was Maine?
Large mountain range in the eastern US. First large mountains white settlers had to cross
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
First 10 amendments to the Constitution that spell out the rights of citizens such as free speech, right to bear arms, etc...
What are the Bill of Rights?
Main cause of the War of 1812 when the British navy captured American sailors and forced them into military service for Britain in their war against France.
What was impressment?
Served in the American Revolution and 1st Treasury Secretary (famous musical named for him)
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
Radical abolitionist who tried to ignite slaves revolts and killed people who were slave owners. Harper's Ferry was one such incident.
Who was John Brown?
State that is now the second largest by size and was obtained by annexing it from Mexico when citizens declared their independence.
What is Texas?
Large mountain range in the western US where pioneers had to cross to reach the Pacific Ocean
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Branch of government headed by the President and Cabinet that EXECUTES or puts laws into place
What is the Executive Branch?
War of 1812 hero of the Battle of New Orleans who went on to become the 7th president of the US. His Indian removal policy resulted in the Trail of Tears.
Who was Andrew Jackson?