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 city is the capital of Pennsylvania.
What is Harrisburg?
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 largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
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 country is home to the Amazon Rainforest and is the largest country in South America.
What is Brazil?
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?
It is the largest animal on Earth, with a tongue that can weigh as much as an elephant.
What is the Blue Whale?
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?
Three famous ancient landmarks often listed among the world’s greatest wonders.
What are the Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, and the Colosseum in Rome?