Exploration
This controversial Italian got finances from Spain for his expedition and is often mis-credited with the discovery of America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This act put a tax on printed materials, such as newspapers and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This was the major cash crop in colonial times.
What is tobacco?
This is the name for a document that establishes a government and its roles.
What is a constitution?
This is the American idea that it was America's calling to expand the entire continent, from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This Portuguese explorer's expedition because the first to circumnavigate the globe, even having a strait on the southern tip of South America named for him.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This is the name for the key political leaders and statesmen who led American to their independence.
What are Founding Fathers?
This is what the early colonies traded to Europe in the triangular trade.
What are raw materials?
This branch is responsible to writing up laws to be passed on for review.
What is the legislative branch?
This U.S. president purchasing the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
DAILY DOUBLE
The is the name for the co-captain who completed the expedition after his captain was killed by Natives in Indonesia.
This is the name for people who supported Britain's cause in the war.
What are Loyalists?
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This is the name for dividing powers among the different branches to prevent one branch from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
This is the name for the journey the Natives, mainly Cherokees, took to Oklahoma when they were displaced.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This is the name for the archipelago that many European explorers were trying to find a route to during the era of Exploration.
What are the Spice Islands?
This man gathered a band of riders to alert the colonists if the British were ever on the march.
Who was Paul Revere?
This is the name for unwritten traditions set for future, such as the one's Washington set by only serving two terms.
What are precedents?
This is the name for the group of advisors to the president, such as the Vice President and the Speaker of the House.
What is the cabinet?
This is the name for the narrow strip of land on the southern tips of New Mexico and Arizona purchased by the U.S. to acquire flatter land for the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This is the name for the nonexistent, continuous waterway through North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This is the name for information designed to influence opinion.
What is propaganda?
This is the name for the battle that took place in Canada where Tecumseh was killed.
What is the Battle of Thames?
DAILY DOUBLE
What president was known as the "President of Firsts", such as first to not be a Founding Father.
This treaty established a border for California, surrendered Spanish Florida to the US, and passed all debt to America.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?