UNIT 1
There were this many original English colonies in North America.
What is 13?
There are this many amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What is 10?
This founding father was the first Secretary of the Treasury and on the $10 bill.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This was the name of the belief that Americans were meant to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This president of the United States served during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is "no taxation without representation!"
What is three?
He was the second president of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
This invention, created by Eli Whitney, increased cotton production in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This was the group of Southern states that seceded from the United States.
What is the Confederacy?
This famous protest involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This document is the supreme law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
This political party was led by Alexander Hamilton.
What is the Federalist Party?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This hated law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to enslavers, even in free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This man commanded the Confederate Army - a native Virginian.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This branch of government interprets (explains/translates) laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This compromise banned slavery north of the 34'30 line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This tax on paper goods angered colonists in 1765.
What is the Stamp Act?
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
These two men explored the western lands gained in the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Lewis and Clark?
This 1854 law, named for two modern-day U.S. states, allowed settlers to vote on slavery in new territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This was the very animal-like name given to the Union’s overall strategy to defeat the Confederacy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?