U.S. Government
Authorized by the Virginia Company. The representatives were elected by colonists. First representative assembly in America.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
Battle of Saratoga Battle of Yorktown George Washington Marquis de Lafayette
What is the American Revolution?
I was the leader of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. I warned against political parties and permanent foreign alliances.
Who is George Washington?
Slavery. Bleeding Kansas. Union. Confederacy.
What is the Civil War?
Conductor of the Underground Railroad after escaping slavery
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Protected the liberties of citizens. Added because of George Mason and other Antifederalists.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Debates - Federalists vs. Antifederalists over gov't power and the Branches of gov't. Great Compromise.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
I'm known as the Great Emancipator, was the US President during the Civil War, and gave a well-known speech at Gettysburg.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Spoils System. Trail of Tears. Nullification Crisis. Bank Crisis.
What is Age of Jackson or Jacksonian Democracy?
First Secretary of the Treasury and leader of the Federalist Party
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Continental Congress appointed a committee to work on it. Expressed grievances against England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Battle of Gettysburg Battle of Vicksburg Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee
What is the Civil War?
I was president during the Lousiana Purchase. I was also the leader of the Anti-Federalist party.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Louisiana Purchase. Annexation of Texas. Mexican Cession. Gadsden Purchase.
What is Westward Expansion or Manifest Destiny?
Commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War
Who is Robert E. Lee?
60,000 was required. This plan was followed for all westward expansion. New states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
First written Constitution Northwest Ordinance of 1787
What is the Articles of Confederation?
I wrote the Bill of Rights, was Father of the Constitution, and was President during the War of 1812.
Who is James Madison?
Impeachment of President Johnson. 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments. Freedmen's Bureau. Sharecropping.
What is Reconstruction?
Author of the "The North Star" and a leading abolitionist of slavery
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Federalism. States' Rights. Powers reserved for the states by the Constitution.
What is the 10th Amendment?
Cotton Gin Telegraph Mechanical Reaper Bessemer Steel Process
What is the Industrial Revolution?
I started the Democratic Party, expanded suffrage for the common man, ignored a Supreme Court ruling, and signed laws that affected Native Americans.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Jamestown. Virginia House of Burgesses. Plymouth. Mayflower. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
What is Colonial America?
American Enlightenment figure who believed in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Young author. Founder of University of Virginia.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?