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Jamestown, VA
This was the final battle of the American Revolution that saw the surrender of British Gen. Cornwallis' Army in Virginia.
Battle of Yorktown
In the case of Gibbons v. Ogden, was about whose authority came first regarding the issuance of licenses to trade between the states. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the State or the Federal Government based on the "Supremacy Clause" in the Constitution?
Federal Government
Famous Tennessean who died defending the Alamo in the Texas Revolution
David Crockett
"It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
Southern Colony founded by James Oglethorpe to be a second chance for debtors and a buffer colony between South Carolina and Spanish Florida.
Georgia
Patriot forces and Loyalists clashed for control of the high ground in this pivotal battle of the American Revolution. The Patriot's (mostly frontiersmen) won the battle due to their accuracy and use of guerrilla-style tactics.
Battle of King's Mountain
Maryland attempted to close the Baltimore branch of the national bank by passing a tax on all banks created outside of the state. The bank’s manager, refused to pay the tax.
The U.S. Supreme Court determined that Congress has implied powers that allow it to create a national bank, even though the Constitution does not explicitly state that power, and that Maryland’s taxing of its branches was unconstitutional because it interfered with the working of the federal government.
McCulloch v. Maryland
Inventor who's method of improving the manufacturing process (interchangeable parts) and separating seeds from cotton fibers (cotton gin) were hallmarks of the Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney
“. . . American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers…
Monroe Doctrine, James Monroe
This colonial region is known for good weather for agriculture, yet little emphasis on slave labor; increased religious tolerance and is referred to as the "bread basket colonies" for their production of grain and wheat.
The Middle Colonies
In the aftermath of the Mexican American war, the United States fulfilled it's Manifest Destiny when it acquired the Mexican territory from west Texas to California through the Treaty of ________ - __________
Guadalupe-Hidalgo
legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 3, 1832, ruled that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American land (ie. Indian removal).
Worcester v. Georgia
Industrial Revolution innovator who was first to use New England's rivers to power his cotton textile factories where only cotton thread was being produced (Rhode Island System)
Samuel Slater
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
Sojourner Truth
New England colony founded as a theocracy by Puritan immigrants where church leaders controlled the laws and politics of the Colony. The strict religious rules led to new offshoot colonies in New England that were more tolerant and democratic.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
This Revolutionary War battle in New York was the turning point of the war as the Patriot victory secured France's military aid and support against Britain.
Battle of Saratoga
What was the outcome of Dred Scott vs Sandford?
-Slaves are not allowed to sue for freedom
-Missouri Compromise declared unconstitutional
-Known as "The Great Compromiser", this Congressman from KY ran for president (unsuccessfully) and served many years as Speaker of the House. He is most known for orchestrating the American System (internal improvements), the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and for being involved in the "Corrupt Bargain" scandal during Andrew Jackson's first run for President
Henry Clay
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
Before it was known as the English colony of New York, it was first the Dutch colony of _____________.
New Amsterdam/New Netherlands
This Civil War battle resulted in a disastrous Confederate loss that forced Confederate General Robert E. Lee to surrender his Army of Northern Virginia and triggered the surrender of other Confederate armies and the collapse of the Confederacy.
Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
-Commanded men in the American Revolution, fighting bravely at the Battle of Yorktown
-Served as George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury
-Feuded with Thomas Jefferson over the constitutionality of the BUS
-Architect of the National debt and Bank of the United States
Alexander Hamilton
"…Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
"There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose; and there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume."
Farewell Address, George Washington