Colonial Period
Question: This document signed in 1620 helped establish self-government in the colonies.
Answer: What is the Mayflower Compact?
Question: This document declared the colonies’ independence from Britain in 1776.
Answer: What is the Declaration of Independence?
Question: He became the first President of the United States in 1789.
Answer: Who is George Washington?
Westward Expansion
16. Question: This purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the United States.
Answer: What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Civil War and Reconstruction
21. Question: This war was fought between the North and South from 1861–1865.
Answer: What is the Civil War?
Question: These people traveled to America on the Mayflower seeking religious freedom.
Answer: Who are the Pilgrims?
Question: He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Answer: Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Question: The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
17.Question: These two explorers led an expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory.
Answer: Who are Lewis and Clark?
22. Question: This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Answer: Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Question: This famous protest in 1773 involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
Answer: What is the Boston Tea Party?
Question: This general led the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Answer: Who is George Washington?
Question: This system divides the government into three branches.
Answer: What is separation of powers?
18. Question: People traveled west in covered wagons along this famous trail.
Answer: What is the Oregon Trail?
23. Question: This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
Answer: What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Question: Colonists protested this British law that taxed newspapers and legal papers.
Answer: What is the Stamp Act?
Question: Colonists used this phrase to protest unfair taxes by Britain.
Answer: What is “No taxation without representation”?
Question: This branch of government makes laws.
Answer: What is the Legislative Branch?
19. Question: This belief said the United States was meant to expand across North America.
Answer: What is Manifest Destiny?
24. Question: The North was also known by this name during the Civil War.
Answer: What is the Union?
Question: This colony, founded by James Oglethorpe, was the last of the original 13 colonies.
Answer: What is Georgia?
Question: This battle is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
Answer: What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Question: This important meeting in 1787 created the U.S. Constitution.
Answer: What is the Constitutional Convention?
20. Question: This discovery in 1848 brought thousands of people to California.
Answer: What is the Gold Rush?
25. Question: This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
Answer: What is the 13th Amendment?