🗽 Category 1: American Revolution
This document declared the American colonies independent from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence
This is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
This ocean is on the East Coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
He was President of the U.S. during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first form of U.S. government was called this.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
He was the commander of the Continental Army.
George Washington
This branch of government makes the laws.
Legislative
These mountains run down the eastern U.S.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This was the first battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
The number of branches in the U.S. government.
What is three?
This 1775 battle showed the colonists could fight even though they lost.
Battle of Bunker Hill
This plan created two houses of Congress.
Great Compromise
This river forms part of the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This speech by Lincoln redefined the purpose of the war.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This principle divides power between the federal and state governments.
What is federalism?
This treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War in 1783.
Treaty of Paris
The idea that each branch of government can check the others.
What is checks and balances?
This major river runs through the central U.S. and ends in Louisiana.
What is the Mississippi River?
He was the general of the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This document outlines how the U.S. government works.
What is the Constitution?
He was a traitor who switched from the American to the British side.
Benedict Arnold
This clause allows Congress to make laws not specifically listed in the Constitution.
What is the Elastic Clause?
This purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?