13 Colonies
What country did the 13 colonies belong to prior to forming the United States?
What is England?
What event, which occurred on March 5, 1770, included the first American deaths in the American Revolution?
What is Boston Massacre?
The first 10 amendments are called what?
What is the Bill of Rights?
The US purchased the land for the Louisiana Purchase from this country.
What is France?
Who was President during the Civil War?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Where did the famous witch trials of 1692 occur?
What is Salem?
What famous patriot is now on the American $100 bill?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
What are the three branches of government?
What is legislative, executive, and judicial?
Lewis and Clark traveled mainly on what river?
What is the Missouri River?
Why was President Lincoln assassinated?
What is John Wilkes Booth's attempt to ruin the Union government so the south could continue fighting?
Also, John Wilkes Booth's opposition to Lincoln's plans for the abolition of slavery and peace in the country.
In 1620, the Pilgrims signed this, which allowed for self-rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What is Lexington and Concord?
What are the 3 parts of the Constitution?
What are the Preamble, Articles, and Amendments?
Name three hardships the people faced while traveling the Oregon Trail.
What is disease, weather, rivers, mountains, accidents, and Indians?
What was the title of the speech Lincoln gave to free slaves?
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
The first permanent English settlement was called what?
What is Jamestown?
What country helped the Patriots defeat the British in the Revolutionary War?
What is France?
The Constitution can only be updated by what?
What are amendments?
The name given to the removal of Cherokees from their homelands to what is now Oklahoma.
What is the (Indian Removal Act) Trail of Tears?
What are the 13, 14, and 15th amendments?
13th - abolished slavery
14th - granted citizenship to former slaves, equal rights and protection under the law
15th - gave all men the right to vote
Which colony mysteriously was abandoned and remains a mystery today?
What is Roanoke?
What treaty concluded the American Revolution?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
What are The Articles of Confederation?
The 1820 ruling that admitted Missouri as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This government program was organized to help ex-slaves with food, medical care, resettlement, and education after being freed.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?