Colonial Foundations
Constitutional Foundations
Pre-Civil War
Civil War
Reconstruction
Corny Riddles
100
This was the economic policy that Great Britain was using when they colonized North America. Based on getting natural resources from the colony and selling manufactured goods back to the colony.
Mercantilism
100
This war in North America was a major event on the road to the American Revolution. It put the British in so much debt that they had to tax the colonists more!
The French and Indian War/ the Seven Years War
100
This term, used often in US History, meant that the USA was destined to extend from "sea to shining sea." This was a leading cause of the Civil War, as the US got more territory
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
Name what the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments did in US History.
13th- Freed enslaved people
14th- African American citizenship
15th- All men (black or white) can vote (NOT women)
100
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
A clock
200
What trading system was being used in this image? 
triangular trade
200
This slogan became a major rallying cry as colonists got more and more upset at the new British taxes.
"No taxation without representation!!"
200
This foreign policy decision, inspired by George Washington, told European Nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere or the US would get involved.
Monroe Doctrine
200
This group intimidated African Americans into not voting. Have been an organization ever since.
The Ku Klux Klan
200
Where would you take a sick boat?
To the dock!
300
The New England, Middle, and Southern colonies all differed because of these factors. (examples include...)
Geography
300
What event is illustrated in this picture? 
Boston Massacre
300
This compromise entered Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and drew a line where new territories could either be entered free (above the line) or slave (below the line)
Compromise of 1820, or Missouri Compromise
300
Which side had the advantage in the Civil War and why?
North: Had more men, money, factories, manufactured goods, railroads, etc.
300
Name one way in which African American voting rights were limited in the South
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clauses
300
During what month do people sleep the least?
February! It's the shortest month
400
European settlers displaced these people who were already living on North America
Who are the Native Americans
400
This book, written by Thomas Paine, told colonists to push for independence and convinced many colonists to join the Sons of Liberty
Common Sense
400
This abolitionist book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, got a lot of people to oppose the practice of slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
400
During the war, Abraham Lincoln issued this, freeing all Confederate (NOT ALL) enslaved people
The Emancipation Proclamation
400
After the Civil War, Congress spent a lot of money and energy to "Americanize" this group of people, characterized by the Dawes Act of 1887. Children were sent to schools where they lost their identities and adults were incentivized to take up "American" farming methods.
Native Americans
400
What rock group consists of four famous men, but none of them sing?
Mount Rushmore!!
500
This term meant that Great Britain didn't care what form of government the colonies used as long as they got their natural resources.
Salutary Neglect
500
What did the Constitution replace and why?
Ask Mr. Snyder
500
This Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans could NEVER be American Citizens
Dred Scott v. Sanford OR the Dred Scott decision
500
Wealthy businessmen began to build these in the period after reconstruction, building businesses so large that they took up the whole market.
Monopolies.
500
You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
Everyone on the boat is married
600
What is one early form of the colonies governing themselves (and practicing democracy)
Ask Mr. Snyder
600
What constitutional principle gives power in each branch to prevent any one branch from having too much power
Checks and balances
600
This quote from Abraham Lincoln signaled how the government wanted to integrate the former rebels back into the Union
"With malic towards non, with charity for all"
600
What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
The letter "r"