Colonization
This was the first settlement by white settlers in Virginia.
What is Jamestown?
The place where George Washington and his army spent a long, cold winter.
What is Valley Forge?
The First President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
The belief that the United States had a divine right to expand west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This region had an agrarian economy, based on the slave labor farming of cotton.
What is the South?
This "lost" colony was settled by white settlers and then mysteriously abandoned.
What is Roanoke?
What is the Boston Massacre?
The Third President of the United States
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This machine pulled the seeds out of cotton fiber, allowing it to be processed much more quickly and increasing the demand for slave labor.
What is the Cotton Gin.
This act drew a line between the North and the South. New states entering above the line would be free, new states entering below the line would have slaves.
What is the Missouri Comrpomise?
This was the primary crop early Virginia farmers grew to make money.
What is tobacco?
The final battle of the American Revolution, where British forces surrendered.
This document formed the first government of the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The name for a person who first comes up with a new idea or machine.
What is an inventor?
This man, elected president in 1860, led the Union during the civil war and issued the Emancipation Proclomation ending slavery.
This man founded the colony of Pennsylvania on principles of radical equality and religious tolerance.
Who is William Penn?
The first battle of the American Revolution, where the famouse "shot heard 'round the world" was fired.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This document formed the current government of the United States.
What is the Constitution?
This African-American man worked to help invent the reaper, although it would never bear his name.
Who is Jo Anderson?
This former slave worked to help other slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This English colony was founded in 1632 by the First Baron Baltimore as a haven for English Catholics.
What is Maryland?
The river crossed by George Washington in the famous painting of him standing at the front of a ship.
The government under the Articles of Confederation had one branch, the government under the Constitution has this many.
What is Three?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American war and granted the United States a large chunk of territory called The Mexican Cession.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln declared that the point of the Civil War was to protect government 'by the people, of the people, and for the people.'