The Colonies
This country controlled the 13 colonies that eventually became the United States.
What is Great Britain?
This was the color of the British soldiers' coats.
What is red?
The Constitution established a government with this many branches.
America was quickly expanding in this direction in the 1800's.
What is West?
These were the two sides fighting in the Civil War.
What are the North and South (Union and Confederacy)?
Virginia, New York, and Florida. One of these was not part of the 13 original colonies.
What is Florida?
The American colonists were angry about having to pay these to Great Britain.
What are taxes?
This branch of the government writes the laws.
What is the legislative branch (Congress)?
People rushed to California in the mid-1800’s to find this mineral.
What is gold?
This man was president during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This was the third region of the colonies along with the new England colonies and the Middle colonies.
What are the Southern colonies?
This European country was a major ally to the colonists.
What is France?
The President is in charge of this branch of government.
What is the executive branch (president)?
This was a popular trail used by pioneers moving westward.
What is the Oregon Trail?
What is the North (Union)?
He was commander of the Continental Army (the army for the colonists).
Who is George Washington?
This was the meeting where the founding fathers got together to write the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
America gained a huge piece of land, which included California, after winning a war against this country.
What is Mexico?
New York colony was originally called this.
What is New Amsterdam?
After the war, the United States established this type of government for itself.
What is a democracy?
This is the name of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This purchase of land from France doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?