Sail, Settle, Survive!
This colony mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind only the word “Croatoan."
What is the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
This 1773 protest involved colonists dumping British goods into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This Scottish-born industrialist made his fortune in steel and promoted the “Gospel of Wealth.”
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This branch makes the laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This 1620 document was an early step toward self-government in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The idea that it was America’s fate to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This term refers to the illegal production and distribution of alcohol during Prohibition.
What is bootlegging?
The President is part of this branch.
What is the executive branch?
The transatlantic trade route exchanged enslaved persons, goods, and raw materials between Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This winter camp was where Washington’s army trained and survived extreme conditions in 1777–78.
What is Valley Forge?
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
This was the first elected legislative assembly in the American colonies.
What are Britain and France?
The original U.S. government structure after the Revolution, which proved too weak.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This famous anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe increased tensions between North and South.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This movement in the 1950s–60s aimed to end racial segregation.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The Constitution begins with this introduction.
What is the Preamble?
This rebellion in 1676 exposed tensions between frontier settlers and Virginia’s colonial government.
This rebellion in 1676 exposed tensions between frontier settlers and Virginia’s colonial government.
This series of essays supported the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This Supreme Court decision declared that enslaved people were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This final event in 1975 marked the official end of the Vietnam War and a U.S. defeat.
What is the Fall of Saigon?
As Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, this man strengthened the power of the federal government and established the principle of judicial review.
Who is John Marshall?