Early American History
Later American History
Founding Fathers
Famous Americans
American Government
100
This group of people were taken to America and sold as slaves.
What are Africans?
100
This was the central cause of the Civil War.
What was slavery?
100
The Constitution was written at this meeting.
What was the Constitutional Convention?
100
This first president is also known as the "father of our country".
Who is George Washington?
100
This individual is in charge of the executive branch of the federal government.
Who is the President?
200
High taxes were one of the reasons the American colonists chose to fight a rebellion against this nation.
What is Great Britain?
200
This name was given to the U.S. war between the North and the South.
What was the Civil War?
200
This name is given to the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
This fourteenth president led the United States through the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
200
In the United States, this is the supreme law of the land.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
300
This group lived in America prior to the arrival of European colonists.
Who were the Native Americans/American Indians?
300
World War I was fought during this century.
What was the 1900s (20th Century)?
300
The idea of self-government is set out in these first three words of the Constitution.
What is "We the People"?
300
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
300
Among its other powers, this branch of the government decides if a law goes against the Constitution.
What is the judicial branch?
400
This document declared America's freedom from Great Britain.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
400
The United States fought against these three nations in World War II.
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
400
A change to the U.S. Constitution is know by this name.
What is an amendment?
400
This man was the oldest member of the Constitutional Convention.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
400
These are the two central purposes of the U.S. Constitution.
What are to set up and define the government?
500
This is one reason that colonists came to America.
What was religious freedom?
Also acceptable: freedom, political liberty, economic opportunity, escaping persecution
500
The Spanish-American War was fought during this century.
What is the 1800s (the 19th Century)?
500
The Constitution was written in this year.
What was 1787?
500
This man served as President during World War I.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
500
This Constitutional provision is intended to stop one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
Also acceptable: separation of powers