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American Revolution
Founding Fathers
Expansion
American Government
Civil War
100
Americans saw this "fight" as a bloody battle, while the British viewed it as a small disagreement.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
This founding father felt that the Constitution wasn't perfect, but it was the best America could put forth at the time.
What is Ben Franklin?
100
This event caused lots of immigrants to move west.
What is the California Gold Rush?
100
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is Legislative?
100
This battle caused more states to secede from the Union, and led to the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This restriction stated that colonists could not settle land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
200
This president was the first to serve two terms.
What is George Washington?
200
This event forced Native Americans out of their homelands.
What is the Trail of Tears?
200
This branch of government enforces the laws.
What is Executive?
200
This man led a raid because he believed he was called by God to kill slave owners and free the slaves.
What is John Brown?
300
This restriction stated that colonists could only drink British tea.
What is the Tea Act?
300
The founding fathers decided that slaves should only count in the southern population as a portion of one whole person.
What is the Three Fifths Compromise?
300
This portion of the country had an industrial economy, booming cities, and no slavery.
What is the North?
300
This branch of government interprets the laws.
What is Judicial?
300
This abolitionist and former slave helped the northerners sympathize with the slavery going on in the south.
What is Frederick Douglass?
400
This restriction stated that redcoats could stay at colonists' houses.
What is the Quartering Act?
400
Thomas Jefferson excluded what 3 groups of people from life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the Declaration of Independence.
What is Native Americans, African Americans, and women?
400
This portion of the country had large plantations and had an economy dependent on slaves.
What is the South?
400
This system prevents one of the three branches of government from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
400
The majority of soldiers in the Civil War died not from wounds, but from this...
What is disease?
500
These restrictions were implemented as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
500
This founding father was the second president of the U.S.
What is John Adams?
500
This word means to break away from (think: the south separating themselves from the north before the Civil War began.)
What is secede?
500
This is the president's ability to override a law that the legislative branch proposes.
What is veto?
500
President Lincoln gave these two famous speeches during the Civil War.
What is Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address?