Presidents
Which president made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803?
What document begins with the words “We the People”?
The Constitution
Which British act taxed printed materials like newspapers and legal documents?
Stamp Act
Which reform movement specifically tried to end slavery?
Abolition
What battle is considered the turning point of the American Revolution?
Battle of Saratoga
Which president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln
What 1776 document declared independence from Britain?
Declaration of Independence
What slogan did colonists use to protest British taxes?
No Taxation without Representation
Which Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review?
Marbury Vs Madison
What battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Which president created the doctrine that warned European nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere?
James Monroe
What document guarantees freedoms such as speech and religion?
Bill of Rights
Which event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor?
Boston Tea Party
Which women’s rights convention was held in New York in 1848?
Seneca Falls Convention
What belief claimed Americans were destined to spread across the entire continent?
Manifest Destiny
Which president was known as “Old Hickory”?
Andrew Jackson
What document established the first (and eventually replaced) national government of the United States?
Articles of Confederation
Which British law required colonists to house British soldiers?
Quartering Act
Which 1896 Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was legal under the “separate but equal” doctrine?
Plessy Vs Ferguson
What term describes allowing settlers in a territory to vote on whether to allow slavery?
Popular Sovereignty
Which president warned against the dangers of political parties in his Farewell Address?
What 1863 announcement declared freedom for enslaved people in Confederate states?
Emancipation Proclamation
Which series of acts were called the "Coercive Acts" by the British but "Intolerable" by the colonists?
Intolerable Acts
Who was the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison
Which 1862 Civil War battle remains the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history?
Battle of Antietam