Creating the Constitution
This document was the first government of the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This amendment protects freedom of speech.
What is the First Amendment?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This belief said the U.S. was meant to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was the first major battle of the Civil War.
What is Bull Run?
This event showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay’s Rebellion?
Name one freedom protected by the First Amendment besides speech.
What is religion, assembly, petition, or press?
This political idea supported states’ rights and limited government.
What is Jeffersonian Democracy?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history.
What is Antietam?
This compromise created a two-house Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
This political party was led by Alexander Hamilton.
What is the Federalist Party?
This system rewarded political supporters with government jobs.
What is the Spoils System?
This term means loyalty to your region instead of the whole nation.
What is Sectionalism?
This battle was considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
This plan favored large states because representation was based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
Federalists supported creating this to manage the nation’s money.
What is the National Bank?
This crisis involved South Carolina claiming it could ignore federal laws.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
The North’s economy was mainly this type.
What is industrial/manufacturing?
This battle ended with General Lee surrendering to General Grant.
What is Appomattox?
This compromise determined how to count enslaved people for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
George Washington warned Americans to avoid these in his Farewell Address.
What are political parties and foreign alliances?
This act forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Southern states feared this president would end slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This battle featured African American soldiers fighting bravely in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.
What is Fort Wagner?