Constitution
Westward Expansion
Slavery
Civil War
American Authors and Poets
American Symbols
100
The Constitution replaced this failing first government of the U.S.
Articles of Confederation
100
The U.S. bought this piece of land from France in what year?
1803
100
The autobiography of this man was a best seller in 1845.
Frederick Douglass
100
The Civil War unofficially began in this "bleeding" state who got determine is slavery should be legal or not.
Kansas
100
Oh Captain, My Captain... he wrote this poem about Lincoln's death.
Walt Whitman
100
Statue of Liberty
200
Who is considered the Father of the Constitution?
James Madison
200
This painting shows the term associate with Westward Expansion....
Manifest Destiny
200
The autobiography of this man was published in the 1789.
Olaudah Equino
200
The Supreme Court Case that said slaves, emancipated slaves, and their descendents "are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution.
Dred Scott Case
200
Born Samuel Clemens, he is arguably the most famous American author of the 19th Century.
Mark Twain
200
U.S. Capitol Building
300
The primary author of the Federalists papers.
Alexander Hamilton
300
This president ignored the Supreme Court ruling and removed Native Tribes in the "Trail of Tears".
Andrew Jackson
300
The first slave ship came over to the "U.S." in what year?
1619
300
Name one slave state that joined the Union.
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri
300
Master of the short story - he often wrote about the puritanical way of life in New England.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
300
Uncle Sam (U.S.)
400
Name the 3 branches of government PLUS their role regarding the law.
Legislative-Makes Law
Executive - Enforces Law
Judicial - Reviews Law
400
This act of 1862 gave land to men, women, and freed slaves.
Homestead Act
400
Upon his death, all of Thomas Jefferson's slaves were freed. True or False?
FALSE!
400
Name the president or vice-president of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens
400
Name one of the transcendental authors who argued that Americans need to get back to nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau
400
How many stars and stripes on the current American flag?
13 stripes (13 original colonies)
50 stars (50 states)
500
Name one of the two states who did NOT ratify the Constitution? (They ratified after G.W. was inaugurated).
Rhode Island (1790), North Carolina (1789)
500
Name one U.S. Representative who opposed the annexation of Texas and the war with Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln or Daniel Webster or Henry Clay
500
Slavery As It is (The Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses) was the factual basis for the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Who compiled the book of witnesses?
Theodore Dwight Weld pg. 3
500
What did John Wilkes Booth cry out after he shot Lincoln?
"Sic semper tyrannis!" . This Latin phrase, which is the Virginia state motto, translates to "Thus always to tyrants".
500
By the shore of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
500
What does E Pluribis Unum mean?
Out of many, one