Revolutionary War
He was the General of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
The name of the first 10 Amendments in the US Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
This war began after a land dispute between the US and the country to our south.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Building more factories and railroad tracks, this side had a major industrial advantage that allowed them to produce more weapons and supplies.
Who is the Union?
These series of laws limited newly freed African Americans freedoms.
This document, written by Thomas Jefferson, was our "break-up" letter to King George III. (Hint: It states "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal")
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This document was our FIRST attempt at a government but failed because it gave the states too much power.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Thousands of people, nicknamed "Forty-niners," rushed to California in 1849 after this rare metal was found.
What is gold?
The Union used this strategic plan to block trade, cutting off resources, and dividing the confederacy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
These were the three "Reconstruction Amendments" added to the Constitution; one abolished slavery, one granted citizenship, and one gave Black men the right to vote.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This 1770 event began when a mob of colonists began throwing snowballs and insults at British soldiers, leading the "Redcoats" to fire into the crowd.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This Amendment says you cannot take away someones right to vote based on the color of their skin. (Hint: It's one of the Reconstruction Amendments)
What is the 15th Amendment?
This two-word phrase expressed the popular 19th-century belief that the United States was destined to expand across the entire continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This famous Abraham Lincoln speech begins with "Four score and seven years ago..."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, this Vice President took over and faced a historic impeachment trial after clashing with Congress.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This was the FINAL battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
These are the three branches of the government.
What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches?
This 2,000-mile-long trail was used by families in covered wagons to travel from Missouri to the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This General was famous for having a "case of the slows" because of his lack of initiative going into battle.
Who is George B. McCellan?
This government agency was established to provide food, medical care, and schools to formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
He was the Prussian officer that helped train the Continental Army at Valley Forge.
Who is Baron Von Steuben?
These are ALL of the freedoms given in the First Amendment (R.A.S.P.P)
What are religion, assembly, speech, press, and petititon?
Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from this country in the infamous "Louisiana Purchase?"
Who is France?
This Union General used "Total War" tactics during his famous "March to the Sea," destroying crops and railroads across Georgia to break the South’s will to fight.
Who is General William Sherman?
This farming system trapped many formerly enslaved people in a cycle of debt, as they had to give a large portion of their crops to landowners in exchange for land and supplies.
What is sharecropping?