Westward Expansion
This event saw people hurrying to California with the hopes of getting rich.
What is the California Gold Rush?
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire are this group of colonies.
What are the New England Colonies?
This 1863 speech by Lincoln is one of the most famous speeches ever given in US history.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This is the amendment that guarantees the right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
This river is the largest river in the US.
What is the Missouri River?
This person helped guide Lewis and Clark during their journey.
Who is Sacagawea?
This holiday was first celebrated in Massachusetts to celebrate successful harvests.
What is Thanksgiving?
This man was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Article III of the Constitution says that these people "shall hold their offices during good behavior" - basically, for life
Who are the Supreme Court Justices?
This state is nicknamed the sunshine state.
What is Florida?
This act required Native Americans to move to lands west of the Mississippi river.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The thirteen colonies were a major part of this trade involving the Carribean and Africa.
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
When the civil war started, this future president and general was helping volunteers in Galena, Illinois.
Who is Grant?
This small colony was the last to ratify the US constitution.
What is Rhode Island?
This mountain erupted in Washington state in 1980.
What is Mount St. Helens?
The Homestead act allowed this group of people to own land and improve their lives.
Who are African-Americans?
Battles from this war took place in the colonies of Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania.
What is the French and Indian war?
This man led a rebellion against the government to steal weapons and arm slaves to revolt.
Who is John Brown?
We plead that this amendment says that no one "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"
What is the fifth amendment?
This is the capital of Wyoming.
What is Cheyenne?
The Golden Spike was placed down in this state at the end of the Transcontinental railroad. (Bonus points for naming the city)
What is Promontory, Utah?
The breadbasket colonies was a nickname for this group of colonies that primarily farmed grains.
What are the Middle Colonies?
The Union won at Gettysburg and this other important "-burg" a day later, dealing major blows to the confederacy.
What is Vicksburg?
Article 1 says that the vice president shall be the president of the Senate, while the House of representatives will elect their leader called this.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This grand landmark was slowly created by the Colorado River over millions of years.
What is the Grand Canyon?