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100
This is the largest piece of land bought by the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
This is the first U.S. Constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
This president did not take advantage of his power and stepped down after two terms.
Who is George Washington?
100
Many believe the Civil War started because of _______.
What is slavery?
100
The colonists during the French and Indian War likely saw themselves as _________.
What is British?
200
The Louisiana Purchase was bought during this presidency.
What is the Jefferson Presidency?
200
Those who opposed the Antifederalists and wanted a stronger federal government.
Who are the Federalists?
200
This President wanted a weaker federal government and is often called an Antifederalist.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
The Civil War is the ________ war on U.S. soil.
What is the bloodiest?
200
In 12 short years, the colonists began to see themselves as ___________.
What are Americans?
300
Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, which ________ gave them the land out west.
Who is God?
300
Bicameral.
What are two houses of government?
300
He died on Good Sunday and had a dream about it.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
300
The Civil War lasted _______ years.
What is four years?
300
A major sect started to grow in the South, and they called themselves __________.
What are Confederates?
400
A line across the country which split up the slave states and the free states.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
This plan wanted the representation based on _____.
What is the Virginia Plan?
400
This man killed Abraham Lincoln and was a Confederate soldier.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
400
The speech where Lincoln said "For score and seven years ago . . ." claimed that these soldiers fought because all men are created equal. This speech by Lincoln was called. This was fought on this land.
What is the Gettysburg Address, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania?
400
For a hundred years after the Civil War, there was a second-hand citizen in the United States.
What is a minority?
500
This act by the government pushed the nation toward war but kept balance between the slave and free states.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
This document was added to the U.S. Constitution so the Antifederalists would signed it.
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
This person believed women should have the same rights as men in things like education.
Who is Abigail Adams?
500
What did Lincoln say that did nothing for _________?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation did nothing for the slaves?
500
Americans for the first time saw themselves as influencers of the world and bringers of democracy after this war.
What is World War I?