Author of the Declaration of Independence
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution are called what?
What are the Bill of Rights
Where the Confederates fired the first shots of the Civil War, located in Charleston, South Carolina
What was Fort Sumter?
The sinking of this American warship in Havana, Cuba precipitated the Spanish American War in 1898
What was the U.S.S Maine?
This was the infamous date of the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese
December 7th, 1941
The quote "The shot heard round the world" was used to describe these battle(s) of the American Revolution
What was the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This war it titled "The Forgotten War" or America's "Second War of Independence" against the British
What was the War of 1812?
The term to describe that the people of a territory decide whether or not to have slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
What was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This Cold War plan provided aid to Greece and Turkey to fight the spread of communism after WWII
What was the Truman Doctrine?
This American general committed treason during the American Revolution by given West Point to the British
Who was Benedict Arnold?
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The Union's plan to suppress the Confederacy at the beginning stages of the Civil War
What was the Anaconda Plan?
This process allows immigrants to become a citizen of the United States
What was naturalization?
This was the name of the theory that was the pretext to the Vietnam War that stated "if one country fell to communism, others would fall as well"
What was the Domino Theory?
When the patriots staged the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed these harsh laws to punish the people of Massachusetts
What were the Intolerable Acts
Enables one branch of government to limit the power of another branch ex: the president (executive branch) vetoes a bill passed by Congress (legislative branch)
What is the system of Checks and Balances
The Supreme Court ruled that a slave owner could take a slave into free territory, and not have to set the slave free; the slave was his "property" and could be taken anywhere in this case
What was the Dred Scott Decision?
This was the first women's rights meeting in the United States; the organizers included Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton
What was the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?
This court case overruled the previous court case of Plessy v. Ferguson and stated that "Separate but equal" was unconstitutional
What was Brown v. the Board of Education
True or False: The American Revolutionary War ended with Washington's victory at Yorktown?
False, the war continued on for another 2 years until the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
He was the hero of the War of 1812 who defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans and later became president
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This Union general led his famous "March to the Sea" destroying much of southern cities, such as Atlanta and Savannah
These were the captains of industry of oil, steel, banking, railroads, and automobiles
Who were John Rockefeller (oil), Andrew Carnegie (steel), J.P. Morgan (banking), Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads), Henry Ford (automobiles)
The alliance pacts between U.S., Canada and western Europe and the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
This person/this event sparked the start French and Indian War?
Who was British Colonel George Washington at Fort Duquesne
This was the route that the Indians were forced to relocate from the Southeast to the Oklahoma territory. Thousands of Indians perished along the way
What was the Trail of Tears?
What were Jim Crow Laws
This U.S. senator bought Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000
Who was William H. Seward?
Name of the Allied (3) and Central Powers (3) of WW1, and the Allied (3) and Axis Powers (3) of WWII
WW1: Allies: Britain, France, U.S. Russia, Serbia, Japan, Italy Central: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
WWII: Allies: Britain, France, U.S., Soviet Union Axis: Germany, Japan, Italy