People
First President of the United States
George Washington
What country was California, Arizona, and Texas originally from?
Mexico
What is protected by the 1st Amendment
What country supported the Americans during the American Revolution?
France
What was the system of safehouses to help slaves escape the South called?
Federalist leader, famously killed in a duel
Alexander Hamilton
What land did Thomas Jefferson buy from France?
Louisiana
What amendment gives you the "right to remain silent"
5th Amendment
What country did America invade 3 times during the War of 1812?
Canada
What disease killed a lot of Native Americans, because they had no resistance
Smallpox
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Who created the Virginia Plan?
James Madison
What state was the first to leave the Union (America)?
South Carolina
What did the people of Jamestown grow, saving their colony
Tobacco
Man who hunted down & killed slave owners in Kansas
John Brown
What were Lewis & Clark looking for on the West Coast?
The Pacific Ocean
What are 4 things the British taxed in Colonial America?
Tea, glass, lead, paper, stamps, sugar, paint
What is guerilla warfare?
People hiding & attacking, hit & run attacks
Spanish soldiers who went looking for gold & silver
Conquistadors
Shoshone woman who guided Lewis & Clark to the West
Sacagawea
What mission did the Texans try and delay the Mexican Army at?
The Alamo
What did the Fugitive Slave Act allow slave owners to do?
Send slave catchers to the North to capture/kidnap runaway slaves
Where were the first battles of the Revolutionary War?
Lexington & Concord
What were the gang & task systems of slavery?
Task system- slaves have a list of things to do, then are free for the rest of the day
Gang system- chained together, work sunup to sundown