Early America
Native Americans adapted their way of life based on this factor.
What is the environment/geography?
This colony was founded for religious freedom by Roger Williams.
What is Rhode Island?
This branch of government makes laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This trail was used by settlers moving west to Oregon.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This Southern general led the Confederate Army.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
This crop, first grown by Native Americans, became important to settlers.
What is corn/maize?
This slogan showed colonial anger toward British taxation.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
This plan created a two-house Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
This war added large amounts of land to the United States in 1848.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This Union general helped win victories in the West and later became president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This Spanish explorer searched for gold in what is now the southeastern U.S.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
These meetings helped colonies communicate before the Revolution.
What are Committees of Correspondence?
This principle means no branch becomes too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
This compromise allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This agreement helped Pilgrims govern themselves in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This battle is known as the first battle of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This president warned against political parties and alliances.
Who is George Washington?
This reformer worked to improve conditions for the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This group used violence to oppose Reconstruction and African American rights.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan?
This Native American woman helped Jamestown settlers survive.
Who is Pocahontas?
This document explained why the colonies wanted independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This case established the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This law allowed people in territories to vote on slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?