Colonial America
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
What is Jamestown?
What was the name of the document that officially declared the 13 colonies independent from Britain?
What is the Declaration of Independence ?
He is known as the “Father of the Constitution”
Who was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
Who was Jefferson Davis?
What industry did Andrew Carnegie dominate during the Gilded Age?
What is Steel ?
What was the name of the agreement signed by the Pilgrims in 1620 that established self-government?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What event in 1770, where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, increased tensions before the Revolution?
What is the "Boston Massacre" ?
What was the first U.S. constitution that was later replaced by the current Constitution?
What were the Articles of Confederation?
What was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War?
What is the Battle of Antietam?
What was the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act?
What was to break monopolies and trusts?
Which colony was founded as a safe haven for Catholics by Lord Baltimore?
What is Maryland?
What was the last major battle of the American Revolution, where the British surrendered?
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
What land deal doubled the size of the United States in 1803?
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
What document did Abraham Lincoln issue in 1863 that freed slaves in the Confederate states?
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
What was Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle about?
What was the meatpacking industry's poor conditions?
What was the economic system that controlled colonial trade and benefited the British economy?
What is Mercantilism ?
What treaty officially ended the American Revolution?
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)
What Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review?
What is Marbury v. Madison ?
What amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
What is the 13th Amendment?
What did the 19th Amendment accomplish?
What was gave women the right to vote?
This "Sizzling" rebellion in 1676 was led by frontier settlers against the Virginia government?
What is Bacon's Rebellion ?
What role did the French play in the American victory over the British?
What is Provided Military and Financial Support, especially at Yorktown?
What event was caused by British impressment of U.S. sailors and interference with American trade?
What was the War of 1812?
What laws were passed in the South after the Civil War to restrict the rights of newly freed African Americans?
What are Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws)
What was the movement that sought to ban alcohol called?
What was Prohibition/Temperance Movement?