Pre-Colonial America
The name of that one Italian merchant who "Discovered" the Americas?
Who is Christopher Columbus
This was the Colonial Capitol
What is Philadelphia?
This was the "Break-Up" note between the colonists and Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This president fought in the war of 1812 and was responsible for the Trail of Tears
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This is the reason why the Civil War was waged.
What is Slavery?
The event the led to the exchange of various goods and diseases from "the New World" and Europe?
The Columbian Exchange
This was the first successful British colony in the Americas
What is Jamestown
The moment where people dumped crates of tea into the harbor in protest of the tea tax?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This was an abolitionist who is famous for the sand creek massacre and the raid at Harper's Ferry
Who is John Brown?
This was the first state to secede the union.
What is South Carolina?
The Spaniard who led conquistadors across the Aztec and Inca empires?
Who is Hernan Cortez
You would do this in order to payback someone for your ticket to go to the Colonies from Britain
What is Indentured Servitude?
This was a book written by Thomas Payne
What is "Common Sense"?
This piece of legislation allowed California to enter the Union as a free state while Missouri came in as a slave state in 1850.
What is the Compromise of 1850
This was considered one of the most pivotal and most famous battles of the Civil War.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
The disease responsible for wiping out many of the natives in "The New World"
What is Smallpox?
A war that was started due to colonists constantly settling west of the Appalachian mountains in French territory
What is the French and Indian (or 7 years) war?
The document that organized the new founded United States of America following the Revolutionary War?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
These laws forced northerners to return any slaves that escaped from the south or face serious penalties.
What are the Fugitive Slave laws?
This general lead a "Total War" campaign sweeping from Missouri to Georgia that is responsible for breaking the South's strength and spirit.
Who is General Sherman?
The reason why Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas
To find a short cut to India for spice trading
The trade route where slaves were gathered from Africa and taken to the Caribbean to work on sugar cane plantations that then took sugar to New England to be made into sugar and rum to trade with Europe?
What is the Triangle of Trade?
This was the final battle of the Revolution
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
This was a piece of legislation written by Stephen Douglas was designed to go around the idea of the Mason-Dixon line and Compromise of 1850 and have states choose whether they would be free or slave states.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Wilmer McLean Famously said "The war started in my front yard and ended in my parlor." as a reference to these two battles during the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas) and Appomattox Court House?