American Revolution
This act required colonists to pay a tax on paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
This document replaced the Articles of Confederation as the framework of the U.S. government.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This 1803 land purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This president led the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This 1773 protest against British taxes involved dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This act forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The Civil War began in 1861 when Confederates attacked this fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
This woman helped enslaved people escape using the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This battle, fought on April 19, 1775, marked the start of the Revolutionary War.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
The three branches of government are executive, legislative, and ____.
What is judicial?
This trail was used by thousands of settlers moving west.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This inventor is known for creating the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine encouraged colonists to support independence.
What is Common Sense?
This system prevents one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
This belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across North America inspired westward migration.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1863 speech by Lincoln redefined the purpose of the war.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This African American leader delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This treaty officially ended the American Revolution in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This agreement during the Constitutional Convention created a two-house Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
The discovery of gold in this state in 1848 led to a major migration.
What is California?
This general led the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This woman was an advocate for women's rights and played a key role in the suffrage movement.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?