American Revolution & Government
Document declaring independence in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Land purchase that doubled the U.S. size.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
System forcing people to work without freedom.
What is slavery?
Period of rapid industrial growth after the Civil War.
What is the Gilded Age?
This priest teaches the class.
Who is Father Cortes?
Leader of the Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
1836 battle remembered with “Remember the Alamo!”
What was the Battle of the Alamo?
War between Union and Confederacy.
What is the American Civil War?
An Industry symbolizing industrial expansion.
What are railroads?.
This is the place where Father Cortes grew up.
What is Hawaii?
First government of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
War fought between the U.S. and Mexico (1846–1848).
What was the Mexican-American War?
President during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Invention that revolutionized communication.
What is the telephone?
This is Father Cortes’s age.
What is unknown?
Meeting held to revise the Articles.
What was the Constitutional Convention?
Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Problem that contrasted with great wealth during the Gilded Age.
What is poverty?
This describes Father Cortes’s height.
What is short?
First ten amendments protecting individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
1848 discovery that caused mass westward migration.
What is gold?
Compromise that ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Invention that made cotton production faster.
What is the cotton gin?
This is Father Cortes’s favorite place to vacation.
What is Hawaii?