🇺🇸 Founding & Government
This first U.S. national government left Congress unable to collect taxes directly.
Articles of Confederation
This belief held that American expansion across the continent was justified or destined.
Manifest Destiny
This 1861 attack on a federal fort in South Carolina began the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
This Netflix series follows a group of Hawkins, Indiana, teenagers confronting creatures from another dimension.
Stranger Things
This Puerto Rican artist released the album Un Verano Sin Ti.
Bad Bunny
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
Jupiter
This principle divides political power between the national and state governments.
Federalism
This 1820 agreement admitted one slave state and one free state while restricting slavery in part of the Louisiana Territory.
Missouri Compromise
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
In this 2023 film, a famous doll leaves her seemingly perfect world and travels to the real world.
Barbie
This rapper released the Grammy-winning song "Not Like Us."
Kendrick Lamar
This company owns YouTube.
This system allows each branch of the federal government to limit the powers of the other two branches.
Checks and Balances
This 1854 law allowed settlers in two western territories to vote on whether slavery would be permitted.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This amendment established birthright citizenship and guaranteed equal protection of the laws.
14th Amendment
This actor portrayed Tony Stark throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Robert Downey Jr.
This artist released the albums SOUR and GUTS.
Olivia Rodrigo
With 50 stars representing the states, the U.S. flag has this many stripes representing the original colonies.
13
This principle from the Declaration of Independence holds that legitimate government authority comes from the people.
Consent of the governed
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This 1863 battle ended a Confederate invasion of the North and became a major turning point of the war.
Battle of Gettysburg
This 2014 Marvel movie introduced audiences to Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot as a team.
Guardians of the Galaxy
This Mexican artist collaborated with Eslabon Armado on the hit "Ella Baila Sola."
Peso Pluma
This is the only continent located in all four hemispheres.
Africa
This Enlightenment philosopher's ideas about natural rights and the right to replace an abusive government strongly influenced the Declaration of Independence.
John Locke
This militant abolitionist attempted to seize a federal arsenal in Virginia in 1859 in hopes of inspiring an uprising against slavery.
John Brown
This amendment prohibited governments from denying voting rights because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
15th Amendment
This actor won a posthumous Academy Award for portraying the Joker in The Dark Knight.
Heath Ledger
This artist became the first person to win the Grammy for Album of the Year four times.
Taylor Swift
This element, whose atomic number is 79, has the chemical symbol Au.
Gold