Colonial America
This colony is referred to as “lost colony”
What is Roanoke?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
The amount of tea dumped into the Harbor during the Boston Tea Party.
What is 90,000 pounds?
Agreement that stated that each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining representation.
What is the three-fifths compromise?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!
He won the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The idea held by early Americans that the United States should be settled from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
Known as the Breadbasket Colonies
What are the Middle Colonies?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Made up of two houses and proposes and passes laws.
What is the legislative branch?
First state to secede from the Union.
What is the South Carolina?
A letter from Col. Robert Gould Shaw to his parents during the Civil War is this kind of source
What is a Primary Source?
The first successful settlement in the New World
What is Jamestown?
The reason the British started taxing the colonies.
What is because of debt?
The amendment that protects you against an unreasonable search and seizure
What is the 4th amendment?
This southern sympathizer broke his leg after he shot and killed Abraham Lincoln at the Ford theater.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
He created the propaganda Join or Die
Who is Benjamin Franklin
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
This man founded Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn?
The second Continental Congress was held in this city to draft the Declaration of Independence
What is Philadelphia?
The amendment that gave women the right to vote.
This was the deadliest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The United States gained full access to the Mississippi River (which was a huge advantage) after making this purchase from France.
What is buying the Louisiana Purchase (Louisiana Territory)
Name the 3 colonial regions and the influence the climate had on their economies.
New England Region - Cold/Rainy - Fishing and Shipbuilding
Middle Region- Moderate Climate- Farming
Southern Region -Warm Climate- Agriculture/Farming/ Longest growing Season
The three universal rights that are included in the Declaration of Independence.
What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
The five freedoms guaranteed in the first amendment.
What is freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press, freedom to assemble peacefully, and the right to petition the government?
This man planned an uprising against white southerners and took over the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
The government agency that helped former slaves and poor whites during Reconstruction.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?