Government
Body that makes laws in America.
What is Congress?
The 1st political cartoon, The Albany Plan of Union, stressed this message for the colonies during the French + Indian War.
What is the need to be united?
Nickname of the 1st roads.
What are "corduroy" roads?
Number of nurses who served in the Civil War helping the Northern army?
What is 4,000?
Patriotic song written by Francis Scott Key.
What is the Star-Spangled Banner?
5 rights granted by the 1st Amendment.
What are freedom of speech, worship, the press, petition, and peaceful assembly?
The 3 authors of the Federalist Papers.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison + John Jay?
The 1st national road, created so that people could cross the Appalachian mountains.
What is the Cumberland Road?
Battle that was a turning point for the Union in the American Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
State where the 1st textile mill was located.
What is Rhode Island?
Branch of the government that has the authority to declare war.
What is legislative?
Famous invention that increased the need (demand) for slaves.
What is the cotton gin?
They were significant because they connected to canals therefore reaching more regions of the country.
What are steamships?
1st Battle of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington + Concord?
Number of years Texas was an "independent nation."
What is 10?
Minimum age someone must be to become a US Senator.
What is 30?
Last battle of the Revolutionary War where the British army was surrounded by both Washington's army as well as the French (including their Navy).
What is Yorktown?
According to the South, reason Northern industrialists took no responsibility for their workers.
What is they had no personal connection?
Winner of the Battle of New Orleans.
Who are the Americans (and Andrew Jackson)?
Livestock whose slaughter and manufacture made Cincinnati famous.
What are pigs?
Number of years a presidential candidate must reside in the United States.
What is 14?
Freedom granted under the Bill of Rights lost under the Sedition Act of 1798.
What is freedom of speech?
Reconstruction amendment that granted former slaves their civil rights; it is still used today.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Victor at the Battle of the Alamo.
Who is the Mexican Army?
Shay's Rebellion revealed the weakness of these early government documents.
What are the Articles of Confederation?