Important Dates
Places & Events
Vocabulary
The Constitution
Amendments
100

1861-1865

What is the years the Civil War was fought?

100

Washington D.C.

What is the final capital of the United States?

100

Manifest Destiny

What is the belief that the US should own all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?

100

The Constitution established a government with this many branches.

What is 3.

100
13th Amendment
What is the amendment that abolished slavery?
200

Declaration of Independence

What is a document that was signed on July 4, 1776?

200
St. Louis, Missouri

What is the gateway to the west? 

200

Republic

What is a nation in which voters choose representatives to govern them?

200

This branch of the government writes the laws.

What is the Legislative Branch? 

200
1st Amendment
What is freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly & petition?
300
1787
What is the year the Constitution was written?
300

Fort Sumter

What is the place the first shots of the Civil War were fired?

300
Primary Sources
What is the original records of an event? They include eyewitness reports and first-hand information.
300

This branch of the government enforces the laws. 

What is the Executive Branch?

300
14th Amendment
What is an amendment that guarantees citizenship and rights to all people born or naturalized in the United States?
400

April 9, 1865

What is when General Lee surrendered signifying the end of the Civil War?

400

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Where is the place of the Constitutional Convention?

400
popular sovereignty
What is the practice of allowing each territory to decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery? (power of the people)
400

This is the meeting that the constitution was written during. 

What is the Constitutional Convention?

400
15th Amendment
What is the amendment that guarantees the right to vote to all citizens regardless of race?
500
1803
What is the date President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France?
500
Appomatox Court House
What is the place where Robert E. Lee surrendered at the end of the Civil War?
500

Monroe Doctrine

What is President Monroe telling the Eastern hemisphere countries to stay out of the Western hemisphere? 
500
More than 11,000 amendments to the Constitution have been proposed but only this many have been ratified? 

What is 27?

500
Bill of Rights
What is the first 10 amendments to the constitution?