Scientists believe that the ancestors of Native Americans migrated across the Bering Strait from which continent?
Asia
100
This war was fought to open up the Ohio Valley to English settlers
French and Indian War
100
This man is considered to be "The Father of the Constituion".
James Madison
100
The Louisiana Territory was purchased from this country
France
100
This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War
Gettysburg
200
Columbus sailed for Spain but was actually from this, other, European country.
Italy
200
This act required colonists to buy stamps for all paper products
The Stamp Act
200
This branch of the government creates the laws
Legislative Branch
200
President Monroe sent this gerneral to Florida to solve the Seminole situation
Andrew Jackson
200
This Union Plan was designed to separate and then strangle the South
Anaconda Plan
300
This was the first English colony in the Americas.
Jamestown
300
This act required the colonies to provide lodging and supplies to British soldiers
Quartering Act
300
This branch of the government carries out the law
Executive Branch
300
This man became the first leader of Texas after it won its independence from Mexico.
Sam Houston
300
This Union general is known for his total war policy. Throwing away the lives of many soldiers to ensure victory
Ulysses S. Grant
400
Name the states----My Vehicle Needs Some Gas
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
400
General Washngton and his army were forced to camp here in the winter of 1777 which resulted in the deaths of several soldiers due to frostbite and starvation
Valley Forge
400
Name two rights guaranteed by the First Amendment
Freedom of religion, right to free speech and press, rig to assemble.
400
This other country claimed the Oregon territory along with the U.S. but signed a treaty in 1846 to avoid bloodshed
Great Britain
400
President Lincoln was assassinated by this man; a Southern sympathizer and out of work actor.
John Wilkes Boothe
500
This small town was the center of a massive witch hunt in 1692 and 1693 in which 200 people were tried and 20 excecuted.
Salem, Massachusetts
500
Cornwallis surrendered after this battle, ending the Revolutionary War.
Yorktown
500
What is the name of the system that enables each branch to limit the powers of the other two branches?
Checks and Balances
500
This was the name of the final purchase that completed the continental United States in 1853
Gadsden Purchase
500
The Civil War ended at this courthouse in Virginia