Jamestown
The country the colonists came from.
What is England/Great Britain?
The number of colonies in America
What is 13
The first locations that fighting occurred
What is Lexington and Concord?
The name of the United States governing document
What is the Constitution?
PYF
What is "pay yourself first?"
The first territory bought by the United States in 1803
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The enslaved man who filed a lawsuit for his freedom
Who is Dred Scott?
The location of the first battle
What is Bull Run?
The name for the time period where the United States attempted to reunite the Southern States into the US
Over 46 of these came and did not help.
What are "gentlemen?"
The first colony started
What is Virginia?
The man chosen to lead the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
Executive, legislative and judicial
What are the branches of government?
Purchasing now and paying for it later
What is credit?
The territory that included California
What is the Mexican Cession?
The woman who helped slave escape along the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The name of the country created when the South seceded
What is the Confederate States of America?
The name of president who was assassinated
Who is Lincoln?
Bad water, native attacks, starvation and disease
What caused colonists to die?
The last colony started
What is Georgia?
The battle that was misnamed and actually took place on Breed's Hill
What is Bunker Hill?
The youngest age a President can be
What is 35 years old?
What is debit?
The territory that was bought in 1819 from Spain
What is Florida?
The man elected in 1860 which led to the South seceding.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The name of strategy that means anything is a target for the military
What is total war?
The amendment that outlawed slavery
What is the 13th?
The man who led the colonists.
Who was John Smith?
The reason the colonists were angry with England
What are high taxes?
The French noble to helped George Washington in the Revolutionary War
Who is the Marquis de Lafeyaette?
The House of Representatives and the Senate
What are the two houses in the legislative branch?
Owing money to companies or banks
What is debt?
The territory that was an independent country and annexed to be part of the United States
What is Texas?
The tariff that the South voided and cause more division between the North and South
What is the Tariff of 1828?
The weapons that aided the North in victory
What were repeater rifles and minie bullets?
The first president to be impeached
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The percentage of people who died?
What is 80%?
The event that led to 5 unarmed colonists dying in the town square.
What was the Boston Massacre?
The document signed after the war began that listed the reasons the colonists wanted to leave
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The number of Supreme Court justices
What is 9?
What is a budget?
The territory that was shared with and then divided in half with Great Britain
What is Oregon country?
The event in Kansas in which people went to vote on slavery and 55 people were violently killed.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The General that Washington asked to lead the United States but instead for the Confederacy
Who is Robert E Lee?
The laws created in the South that applied only to the newly freed African Americans
What were "Black Codes?"
The young Native woman who helped save the Jamestown leader
Who is Pocohantas?
The war that led to England being more present in the colonies
What was the French and Indian War/Seven Years War?
The year that the war ended
What is 1783?
The branch that is headed by the President
What is the executive branch?
Money paid to the government
What are taxes
The piece of land bought to be part of the Southern Railroad
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
The economic focus for the North and the South
What is industrial (N) and agricultural (S)?
The side that won the war
What is the Union/United States?
The policy of renting land, homes and supplies to newly freed people in return for a share of the profit/harvest
What is sharecropping?