Exploration/Revolution
Government
Wash to Jack
Change in US
Civil War/Recon
100
What is the simple way to remember the reasons for exploration?

3 G's

100

Which amendment guarantees rights of freedom of speech and religion?

1st Amendment

100

Who was the 1st president of the United States?

George Washington

100

What was the name of the concept of settling from Coast to Coast?

Manifest Destiny

100

Who was the President of the Union during the Civil War?

Abraham Lincoln

200

What was the name of the event where colonists pumped millions of dollars of tea into the Boston harbor?

Boston Tea Party

200

What is the name of the branch of government that makes our laws?

Legislative

200
What land purchase doubled the size of our country?

Louisiana Purchase

200
What was the name of the largest man-made waterway during the 1800s?

Erie Canal

200

Which side of the Civil War had an advantage in military leadership?

South/Confederacy

300

Which country primarily focused on fur trapping in the New World?

France

300

Who wrote the Constitution?

James Madison

300

What the name of the forced removal of Native Americans from their land called?

Trail of Tears

300

Which invention helped fuel the growth of slavery in the South?

Cotton Gin

300

What was the name of the white supremacist organization that tried to use fear to control freed African Americans?

KKK

400

What was the name of the first permanent British colony?

Jamestown

400

Which amendment guarantees protection against unreasonable search and seizure?

4th Amendment

400

Which President closed off the western hemisphere to European colonization?

Monroe

400

Which famous abolitionist spread his story of escape through his newspaper The North Star?

Frederick Douglas

400

What was the name of laws that were passed to restrict free African Americans lives?

Black Codes

500

Which battle ended the American Revolution?

Yorktown

500

What principle of government makes sure one branch doesn't get more power than the others?

Checks and Balances

500

What was the name of the idea to give jobs to political supporters?

Spoils System

500

What was the name of the land acquisition that added 5 states to the United States after a war?

Mexican Cession

500
What was the name of the president who was impeached for firing the Secretary of War?

Andrew Johnson

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