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100

What are the 3 Gs which motivated European explortation and colonization?

God, Gold, Glory

100

Which document, signed on July 4, 1776, said people have the right to overthrow a government?

Declaration of Independence

100

What is the name for the 1st 10 amendments to the United States Constitution?

Bill of Rights

100

What did President Jefferson buy from France, doubling the size of the United States?

Louisiana Purchase
100

What document did President Lincoln write to free the enslaved people of the Confederacy?

Emancipation Proclamation

200

What landform joined Russia to Alaska, allowing early humans to cross into the Americas nearly 20,000 years ago?

Bering Land Bridge

200

Which colonial city was the site of a massacre in 1770, and later a "tea party" in its harbor?

Boston

200

Which branch of the United States government is led by the President?

Executive

200

In which future state did a discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill lead to a gold rush?

California

200

After which battle did President Lincoln give a speech ("Address") calling for the equality for all people?

Gettysburg

300

What was the 1st permanent British colony in the New World?

Jamestown

300
Which act imposed a tax on documents and paper goods?

Stamp Act

300
What is the name of the group of advisors appointed by the President for advice and to run governmental departments?

Cabinet

300

What 2-word phrase describes the belief that the United States should and would expand to the Pacific Ocean?

Manifest Destiny

300

South Carolina was the 1st southern state to do this, after Lincoln's election. (You must use the correct vocabulary term.)

Secede, or Secession

400

What is the name for the strict religious group that dominated colonial New England?

Puritans

400
What was the title of Thomas Paine's influential book calling for American independence?

Common Sense

400

What phrase describes how each branch of the government can limit the powers of the others? For example, a Presidential veto of a Congressional law.

Checks and balances

400

Which state revolted against Mexico in 1836 and was annexed to the United States in 1845?

Texas

400

What 2-word phrase describes the political violence over popular sovereignty in 1854?

Bleeding Kansas

500

Which indigenous group did Christopher Columbus first encounter in the New World?

Taino, or Arawak

500
After which turning point battle in upstate New York did France decide to assist the American Revolution?

Saratoga

500
Who defeated Thomas Jefferson in 1800, but was troubled by the XYZ Affair and Alien and Sedition Acts?

John Adams

500

Which 1820 Congressional act added 1 free state and 1 slave state, while limiting slavery in new territories to lands north of the 36th parallel?

Missouri Compromise

500

Which invention by Eli Whitney sparked a growth in the demand for enslaved labor on plantations?

Cotton Gin