Colonization
Independence
Constitution
Westward
Expansion
Expansion
The Civil War
100
The year of the first Permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown, Virginia
What is 1607?
100
Served as Commander in Chief of the Revolutionary Forces/
Who is George Washington?
100
The year the Constitution was written.
What is 1787?
100
Name and year of the largest land purchase in United States history made by President Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Louisiana Purchase in 1803?
100
Law that forced Northerners to return runaway slaves.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
200
Name of document signed by group in 1620 that was first form of democratic government in America – gave each man one vote.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
Was the site of the Revolutionary War battle that was considered the “turning point” of the war.
What is Saratoga, NY?
200
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay.
Who are prominent Federalists?
200
Name for American belief that the North American continent was theirs for the taking.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
Runaway slave who became an abolitionist and advised President Lincoln.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
Colonial Region known for cash crops like tobacco, indigo, sugar, rice, and much later cotton. Va, Ga, and the Carolinas.
What is the South?
300
The year and means By which America told England it wanted to be its own nation.
What is 1776 and the Declaration of Independence?
300
Process by which Supreme Court validates or invalidates the laws passed by Congress.
What is Judicial Review?
300
Main economic reason industrialization and urbanization occurred during the expansion era.
What is the industrial revolution that sprang out of the development of the factory system that used interchangeable parts?
300
Replaced the Missouri Compromise and allowed popular sovereignty in the Louisiana Territory.
What is Kansas Nebraska Act?
400
Home to shipbuilders, tradesmen, and that Puritan work ethic – Mass, NH, RI, and CT!
What is New England?
400
Village in Massachusetts where colonists first fired on the British.
What is Concord and Lexington?
400
If I’m not careful, I could be killed at any one of many steps I have to go through just to get to survive. I am a __________.
What is I’m a bill trying to be a law?
400
The last piece of land to become a part of the continental United States.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
400
Name of people against slavery?
Who are Abolitionists?
500
The name of the first representative government in America?
What is the House of Burgesses?
500
Biggest colonial grievance.
What is taxation without representation?
500
Best title for the Chart.
What are Checks and Balances?
500
Foreign policy doctrine that made the United States the protector of the Western Hemisphere!
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
500
Court Case the stated slaves were property and not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?