Who's That Person?
This person was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4th, 1776, and would later become the third president of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This person fought to provide free public common school for every child.
Whos is Horace Mann?
This person was the General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and The First President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
These are taxes on imports.
What are tariffs?
The President of the United States is the head of this branch of government.
What is the Executive Branch?
These are rights that you are born with, that the government may not take away from you. Written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776.
What are Unalienable Rights? Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Two cause of this war was French forts on English lands as well as The French encouraging Native raids on English lands.
What is the French & Indian War?
This former slave sued for freedom saying that he was now living in a free territory. However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against him, saying: “He is not a citizen, therefore cannot sue in the American court system.”
Who is Dred Scott?
In 1607 this became the first permanent English settlement.
What is Jamestown?
He established the National Bank, was the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and founded America's first political party, the Federalist Party.
Who is Alexander Hamilton
On January 8, 1815, General Andrew Jackson led an American force to a decisive victory against the British at this Battle during the War of 1812.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
This war against Britain began due to the impressment of American sailors, interference in American trade, and encouraging of Native American attacks on the frontier.
What is the War of 1812?
This is the belief that it was the right of the United States to expand its territory from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean (from sea to shining sea).
What is Manifest Destiny?
He was the King of England during the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
This famous abolitionist established the anti-slavery newspaper "The North Star."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This is when Washington warned the nation to stay neutral (no foreign alliances), and avoid debt and political parties.
What is Washington's Farewell Address?
To add or absorb a territory or an area.
What is Annexation?
The agreement between the large states (The Virginia Plan) and small states (The New Jersey Plan) that established a bicameral legislative branch.
What is the Great Compromise?
This amendment gives you rights in criminal cases, such as the right to remain silent or being charged for the same crime twice.
What is the 5th amendment?
This British law stated that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian mountains.
What is the are the Proclamation of 1763.
These 3 amendments abolish slavery, defined citizenship, and protected voting rights for formerly enslaved people.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
By 1494 these 3 powers were fighting for control to rule the New World.
Who are France, England and Spain?
This group of American colonists sided with the rebels in the American Revolution and wanted independence.
Who are Patriots?
In the controversial Presidential Election of 1824, Henry Clay allegedly swung the House vote to John Quincy Adams in exchange for becoming Secretary of State. This event is often referred to as...
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
This person is credited with the inventions of the Telegraph and Morse Code.
Who is Samuel Morse?
This man-made river was constructed in 1825 in New York, and was constructed to make transportation more efficient.
What is the Erie Canal?
This person wrote a pamphlet titled "Common Sense", that called for neutral colonists to unite against King George III & fight for independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This was known as the stop of the sale, and drinking of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This protest by Pennsylvania farmers against new federal taxes was put down when President George Washington to lead 12,000 troops to stop them, proving the new U.S. government had the power to enforce laws.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This is an action or a model set by someone or something, for others to follow.
What is a precedent?
This was Americas 1st form of government in which the states held more power than the "weak" National Government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This historic English document from 1215 established that the king must follow the law and could not simply rule as he wished. It also gave all people the right to justice and a fair trial.
What is the Magna Carta?
What is it called when many colonists collectively agreed to stop buying British goods to protest unfair treatment and taxes.
What is a Boycott?
This was a turning point in the Civil War as Robert E. Lee's army was defeated in Pennsylvania.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This was Britain’s hands-off policy towards governing the colonies, which caused the colonies to develop their own representative self government.
What is Salutary Neglect?
Andrew Jackson is considered the founder of this political party that first established a grassroots organization for the "common man."
What is the Democratic Party?
The 1828 election marked a turning point in American politics and represented a shift toward a more democratic political era for white men, regardless of landownership, because this group of people could now vote.
What is the Common Man?
This person is credited with the invention of the Cotton Gin and Interchangeable Parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This treaty ended the Mexican - American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A minister and educator who became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress, taking his seat in the Senate in 1870.
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
This person is credited with the creation of the Abolitionist journal "The Liberator."
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This demanded that Europe not interfere with any country in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This is the right to vote in elections.
What is suffrage?
Using the New Jersey plan and the Virginia plan, this would decide how representation would work in congress.
What is The Great Compromise?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
What is the 10th amendment?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
First shots of the Civil War were fired here.
Where is Fort Sumter?
This was a religious movement in the colonies that emphasized personal religious experience.
What is the "First Great Awakening"?
George Mason, Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams were members of this early political party?
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
A major fight between South Carolina and President Jackson over states' rights vs. federal power. South Carolina tried to void federal tariffs (taxes) they felt were unfair to Southern states. Jackson threatened military force to keep the Union together.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This person is credited with the water powered textile mill.
Who is Samuel Slater?
In 1846 Britain signed this treaty with the United States to give us territory on the West Coast.
What is the Oregon Treaty.
This person is credited for the invention of a new steel process which helped to cheaply mass-produce steel from molten iron, and allowed for stronger steel to be produced at a lower cost.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
She was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This was Lincoln’s military order to free slaves in the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
To formally leave or break away from a group, country, or organization to become independent.
What is to secede?
This Principle of the Constitution states that the power of government rests with the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This amendment made it illegal to quarter troops in your home.
What is the 3rd amendment?
In 1770 five colonists were killed in this tragic event which would eventually be a cause of the American Revolutionary War.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This act let residents vote to decide if their state would become a slave or free state resulting in "Bleeding Kansas?".
What is the Kansas/Nebraska Act?
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware make up this region in the New World. This region is known for its moderate climate and is often referred to as the Breadbasket Colonies..
What are the Middle Colonies?
Led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, this early republic political party favored limited federal power and states' rights.
What is the Democratic-Republican Party?
This is loyalty to local interests instead of national interests leading to a division.
What is Sectionalism?
An organization that works on behalf of factory workers to protect their rights.
What are Labor Unions?
Purchased in 1803 from France by Thomas Jefferson for 15 million dollars, this territory doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This person was elected as the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This 1800s religious revival emphasized the ability of each person to achieve salvation and make a difference.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
During James Monroe's Presidency, Maine became a FREE state, Missouri became a SLAVE state and slavery could not extend North of 36’30 latitude line due to this compromise.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
This was the movement to end slavery.
What is the Abolition Movement?
The bicameral branch of government was established as a result of the Great Compromise.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This amendment protects the five core freedoms: religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the 1st amendment?
"The shot heard around the World" officially stated the American Revolution, and took place here.
Where is Lexington & Concord?
This Union victory was the bloodiest single day of battle in American history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Under this economic policy, colonies supply the Mother Country with raw materials and goods made by natural resources.
What is Mercantilism?
This early republic political party supported the constitution as it was originally written and wanted a strong central government.
Who are the Federalists?
In the winter of 1837 five native tribes were forced to walk to "Indian Territory". Many would die and this would come to be known as this.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This is when people gradually moved from rural areas into cities to work in factory jobs.
What is Urbanization?
In the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico gave up land that became known as this
What is the Mexican Cession?
An English philosopher whose ideas on natural rights—life, liberty, and property—heavily influenced the American Revolution and Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke ?
She was a key reformer for establishing better treatment for the mentally ill and for prisoners.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
He was the Union (North) general during the Civil War and was the 18th U.S. President during the Reconstruction Era.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
To officially approve something.
What is to ratify (or ratification)?
This was the 1st written constitution in America.
What are The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the 4th amendment?
This person is known as the Father of the American Navy.
Who is John Paul Jones?
This regiment was one of the first official African American units in the United States during the Civil War with over 1,000 black soldiers.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
In 1619 this was the 1st form of representative government in the colonies.
What is the The Virginia House of Burgesses?
This party formed to stop the spread of slavery into new territories.
What is the Republican Party?
Jackson famously vetoed the rechartering of this institution because he believed it was an unconstitutional monopoly that empowered the wealthy elite at the expense of ordinary citizens .
What is the National Bank?
This person is credited with the invention of the Steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
In 1845 this state entered the U.S. as a slave state after the Mexican-American War.
What is Texas?
This person was an abolitionist who wanted to start a slave uprising in Virginia. In 1859 he attacked the U.S. arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
This person wrote the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
A law passed by Thomas Jefferson that stopped all U.S. ships from trading with foreign countries to avoid war with Britain and France. Instead of protecting American sailors, it ruined the U.S. economy, causing high unemployment and making the law very unpopular.
What was the Embargo Act of 1807?
An agreement during the U.S. Constitutional Convention that counted each enslaved person as three-fifths (60%) of a person for determining state representation in Congress and taxes.
What is the three fifths compromise?
This principle of the constitution provides that the national (central/federal) government and state governments share power; power is divided.
What is Federalism?
This amendment gives you the right to a speedy and public trial, and a lawyer to help with defense.
What is the 6th amendment?
Washington and French ships surrounded British General Cornwallis, in this official last battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
After the Election of 1860, this was the first state to secede (leave the union).
Who is South Carolina?
In 1620 Pilgrims set sail on the Mayflower and eventually landed to set up this colony.
What is the Plymouth Colony?
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay were members of this early political party.
What is the Federalist Party?
This American art movement, which focused of landscape paintings of nature, reflected the era's democratic and expansionist spirit, which was largely shaped by the presidency of Andrew Jackson.
What is the Hudson River School?
Built in the 1800s this 1,900-mile track connected the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific coasts for the first time.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This was bought from Mexico because this area was seen as the most practical route for the new railroad that was expanding across the U.S.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This person is the first African-American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Who is William Harvey Carney?
This person is known for his Essays on Transcendentalism.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
He was the 11th president of the United States whose 1844 campaign centered on the popular belief of Manifest Destiny.
Who is James K. Polk?
Any type of material made by weaving, knitting, or felting fibers together to create cloth.
What is a textile?
This Supreme Court decision gave Justices the right to declare a law unconstitutional, establishing Judicial Review.
What is the case of Marbury vs Madison?
This amendment protects the right to a trial by jury in civil court cases.
What is the 7th amendment?
This battle was a turning point in the American Revolution by convincing the French to join the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant here and the Civil War was officially ended.
Where is Appomattox Courthouse?
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island, all made up this region in the New World. This region was known for having harsh winters and short summers.
What are the New England Colonies?
This was a group of American colonists who supported the British in the American Revolution and wanted to remain part of England.
Who are Loyalists?
This is known as putting friends in positions of power, regardless of their qualifications. Made popular by President Andrew Jackson.
What is the Spoils System?
Between 1845 and 1855, over 1.5 million emigrated to the United States, (especially to Boston and New York), from this country to escape the Great Potato Famine.
What is Ireland?
This religious group settled in Utah (Salt Lake City).
Who are the Mormons?
This American statesman and Founding Father served as the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1801 until his death in 1835 and wrote the famous Marbury v. Madison decision.
Who is John Marshall?
Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments presented at the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
The 4th President of the United States, known as the "Father of the Constitution" who would led the nation during the War of 1812.
Who is James Madison?
The legislature, or lawmaking group, in the government of the United Kingdom (Great Britain).
What is parliament?
This court case established that states cannot tax the federal government.
What is the case of McCulloch vs Maryland?
This amendment states that all the rights not listed in the Constitution belong to the people, not the government.
What is the 9th amendment?
The Continental Army, led by George Washington, endured a harsh winter at this encampment between 1777-1778.
What is Valley Forge?
The Union won this battle and gained complete control of the Mississippi River. This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, made up this colonial era region. Known for its long hot summers, and short winters.
What are the Southern Colonies?
The Anti-Federalists were against ratifying the new constitution because it lacked this.
What is a Bill of Rights?
The Native Americans were forcibly removed to this territory following the Indian Removal Act.
What is Oklahoma?
This is the term of making large amounts of standardised products in factories on production lines.
What is mass production?
In 1849 this event caused many to flock to the West Coast to strike at rich.
What is The California Gold Rush?
This person is the first Hispanic-American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Who is Philip Bazaar?
This person is known for their belief in Civil Disobedience: A non-violent form of protest, such as a refusal to pay taxes or follow an unjust law.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
In 1819 President James Monroe purchased Florida from Spain for $5 million in this treaty.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
A system where a farmer works on land owned by someone else. Instead of paying rent with money, the farmer gives a large portion of their harvested crops (often over half) to the landowner as payment.
What is sharecropping?
This court case established that congress has the ability to regulate interstate commerce.
What is the case of Gibbons vs Ogden?
This amendment protects you right from cruel or unusual bails, fines, or punishments.
What is the 8th amendment?
American Colony leaders met in Philadelphia just after the Revolutionary War began. They established the Continental Army, appointed George Washington as commander, and approved the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
What is the 2nd Continental Congress?
Union troops marched throughout the south destroying Southern supply lines, which would become known as this during the Civil War.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
France settled in Canada and colonists engaged in this type of trade with Native Americans.
What is the fur trade?
This was a major political party (1834-1854) formed to oppose President Andrew Jackson's expansion of executive power. Founded by leaders like Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.
What is the Whig Party?
The Native Americans were forcibly removed from their lands due to the Indian Removal Act, even after winning this court case which ruled in their favor.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
Over 300,000 immigrants from this country came to California driven by the Gold Rush of 1849. Many ended up building the transcontinental railroad.
What is China?
A law passed by Congress that set rules for how new land in the Midwest (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota) would be governed, settled, and turned into states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?