The Beginnings
This ship brought Pilgrims to Plymouth in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
A group of men dumped this in Boston Harbor in protest.
What is tea?
The system of government in place before the Constitution was created by these.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
U.S. Secretary of State purchased this future state from Russia for $7 million (roughly 2 cents per acre).
What is Alaska?
What are the colonies?
This city's massacre occurred between British soldiers and American colonists.
What is Boston?
The system of American government is established in this foundational document.
What is the US Constitution?
John Wilkes Booth shouted "Sic semper tyrannis" after he shot me at Ford's Theater.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Thomas Jefferson completed this purchase from France, which eventually prompted the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Each colony had their own form of this.
The passage of these acts, also known as the Coercive Acts, were passed by British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The three branches of American government.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
I was the reigning British monarch when the American colonists decided they wanted their independence.
Who is King George III?
This was the last territory to become an official state, and had its own monarchy prior to entering the U.S.
What is Hawaii?
Agriculture was the primary source of income for the colonies in this region.
The South.
This particular form of vigilante "justice" was heavily practiced in the colonies as an American response to British taxes.
What is tarring and feathering?
The president is not elected by popular vote, but instead by this confusing system.
What is the electoral college?
Along with John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, I wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The first colony to become a state.
What is Delaware?
Where did the puritans live before their emigration to the colonies?
Where is the Netherlands.
I was appointed Commander of the Continental Army, served as the president of the Constitutional Convention, and then served as the first President of the United States.
A president can only serve for this many terms, according to the 22nd Amendment.
What is two?
I was a leader in steel during the Industrial Revolution, and used some of my massive wealth to build a famous concert hall in New York.
This evergreen territory became a state in 1889.
What is Washington State?