Founding Fathers
This is the Founding Father who was President Washington's Secretary of the Treasury.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This branch of the Federal Government has the longest section in the Constitution and is dedicated to making the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This man is a famous writer who escaped slavery.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
This is the location of a famous American battle and President Lincoln gave his most famous speech here.
This President was responsible for the Trail of Tears.
Who is President Jackson?
If you look at this president's tombstone it will mention that he wrote the Declaration of Independence, was the author of the Statute of Virginals For Religious Freedom and that he is the Father of the University of Virginia. It will not mention that he was ever President of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This court is the highest court in the land and the top of the Judicial Branch.
What is the Supreme Court?
This woman ran an underground railroad in order to assist slaves in escaping slavery.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This is the name of the famous Northern General that Lee surrendered to, he was also a president of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This song was originally a poem commemorating a battle during the War of 1812.
What is the Star Spangled Banner?
This is the man who shot Alexander Hamilton.
Who is Aaron Burr?
This compromise restricted how much a slave would count on a census, restricting the political power of slave states.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
This compromise created a line in the US map where any states that were north were free and states south were slave.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This is the actor who shot President Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This country sold the Louisiana Territory for a bargain price.
What is France?
This president was the 6th president of the United States and was the son of a Founding Father.
Who is John Quincey Adams?
This part of the Bill of Rights ensures our basic freedoms such as speech, religion and the right to assemble.
What is the First Amendment?
This particular slave sued saying that he is no longer a slave because he is in a free state and lost.
Who is Dred Scott?
This executive order of President Lincoln only freed slaves that were in territories which were in active rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The failure of this food crop caused a large immigration of Irish people into the United States.
What is the potato?
This is the document that first governed the United States before the Constitution was ratified.
What are The Articles of Confederation?
This fraction represents the amount of the Senate required in order to remove a president who has been impeached.
What is 2/3?
This was the place that John Brown made his failed attempt at starting a slave rebellion.
What is Harpers Ferry?
This amendment of the Constitution ultimately freed all slaves.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This British policy is where they kidnapped American sailors and forced them to join the British navy.
What is impressment?