Colonization
Independence
Constitution
Westward
Expansion
Civil War
100

The year of the first Permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown, Virginia.

What is 1607 (1 Throw)

100

Served as  Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. 

Who is George Washington? (1 Throw)

100

The year the Constitution was written!

What is 1787? (1 Throw)

100

Name and year of the largest land purchase in United States history made by President Thomas Jefferson!

What is the Louisiana Purchase in 1803? (1 Throw)

100

Years of the Civil War!

What is 1861 to 1865? (1 Throw)

200

Name of document signed by group in 1620 that was first form of democratic government in America – gave each man one vote.

What is the Mayflower Compact? (1 Throws)

200

Was the site of the Revolutionary War battle that was considered the “turning point” of the war.

What is Saratoga, NY? (2 Throws)

200

Separation of powers is a doctrine of constitutional law under which the three branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial) are kept separate. This is also known as the system of

What are Checks and Balances? (2 Throws)

200

Name for American belief that the North American continent was theirs for the taking!

What is Manifest Destiny? (2 throws)

200

President of the United States and the President of the Confederacy during Civil War years!

Who is US President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate President Jefferson Davis? (2 Throws)

300

Colonial Region known for cash crops like tobacco, indigo, sugar, rice, and much later cotton. Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas!

What is the South? (2 Throws)

300

The year and means by which America told England it wanted to be its own nation!

What is 1776 and the Declaration of Independence? (2 Throws)

300

Prominent Federalists

Who are James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay? (3 Throws)

300

Foreign policy doctrine that made the United States the protector of the Western Hemisphere!

What is the Monroe Doctrine? (3 Throws)

300

Region of the United States that had the advantage during the Civil War –

•More industry

•More people

•More trains & tracks?

What is the North? (2 Throws)

400

Home to shipbuilders, tradesmen, and that Puritan work ethic – Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Roade Island, and Connecticut!

What is New England? (2 Throw)

400

Village in Massachusetts where colonists first fired on the British.

What is Concord and Lexington? (3 Throws)

400

Process by which Supreme Court validates or invalidates the laws passed by Congress!

What is Judicial Review? (2 Throws)

400

The last piece of land to become a part of the continental United States?

What is the Gadsden Purchase? (2 Throws)

400

Name of the people that were against slavery. (Hint Frederick Douglass)

Who are Abolitionists? (2 Throws)

500

British colonists wanted to take over French land in North America in the Ohio River Valley.

British soldiers fought against French soldiers and Native Americans.

Native Americans joined against the British because they were afraid the British would take over their land.

What is the French and Indian War (1754-1763) (3 Throws)

500

Ended the French and Indian War. Also as a result of the war, the British began  taxing the colonists to pay for the war and the proclamation line of 1763 was established to keep colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

What is Treaty of Paris (1763)? (3 Throws)

500

If I’m not careful, I could be killed at any one of many steps I have to go through just to get to survive.  What am I?

What is I’M A BILL TRYING TO BE A LAW? (3 Throws)

500

Main economic reason industrialization and urbanization occurred during the expansion era!

What is the industrial revolution that sprang out of the development of the factory system that used interchangeable parts? (3 Throws)

500

Battle site that was turning point in war and helped the North achieve victory.

What is Gettysburg? (3 Throws)