Colonial America
The Early Republic
(and Constitution)
Expansion/Nationalism/
Sectionalism
Civil War
Reconstruction
Riddles
100

Since colonization, the British let the colonists govern themselves (self-government) what is one example of this?

Virginia House of Burgesses

Mayflower Compact

New England Town Meetings

100

In the Preamble to the Constitution, where do governments get their power from? 

The People!

"We the People..."

100

This land purchase by Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the USA

Louisiana Purchase!


(HUGE 500pts DAILY DOUBLE OPPORTUNITY)

100

This phrase meant that territories had to decide for themselves whether they would have slavery or not (like in Kansas or Nebraska)

Popular Sovereignty

100

This quote encapsulates how Lincoln felt about how to treat the former Confederate States and bring them back into the Union

"With malice toward none, with charity for all"

100

How can a girl go 25 days without sleep?

She sleeps at night

200

This economic system's goal was to increase the mother country's wealth. It did this by taking the colony's natural resources and selling them to the colony as manufactured goods. 

Mercantilism

200
This Constitutional Principle is where each branch has a limit to the power of the others!!

Checks and Balances!

200

Why did Congress have to compromise in 1820 and 1850? 

To keep an equal number of states that allowed and banned slavery

200

This THREE-WORD phrase was the opinion of Lincoln at the start of the Civil War

"Preserve the Union" 

200

These three amendments guaranteed African Americans equal treatment under the law. 

13th, 14th, and 15th

200

What is at the end of a rainbow?

W

300

This book by Thomas Paine told colonists that they should be independent from Great Britain. It is still the 2nd best-selling book in the US per capita!

Common Sense

300

The differences in opinion in George Washington's cabinet between Hamilton and Jefferson led to the creation of these, which we still have today!

Political parties

(Daily Double Opportunity!!!)

300

This policy by Andrew Jackson extremely hurt the Native American tribes in the SE USA

Trail of Tears


Indian Removal Act

300

Which side had almost all of the advantages in the Civil War? 

The North!

300

What is something that were used in the south to limit African American voter participation

Literacy Test

Poll Tax

Grandfather Clause

KKK intimidation

300

On which side of a chicken are there more feathers?

The outside

400

What is one accomplishment of the Articles of Confederation?

a new process for admitting new states into the Union

400

What is the advice the George Washington gave in his "farewell address"

Stay out of European alliances!

Beware of political parties!!

400

Which statement best describes Manifest Destiny?

"American interests are best served by strict isolationism"

Immigration is the key to the nation's economic growth"

"The US has a duty to spread its ideals westward"

C

400

Abraham gave this declaration that freed all of the slaves in the Confederate states, (not the ones still in the Union!) that changed what the North was fighting for

Emancipation Proclamation 

400

These supreme Court case made segregation legal in the USA

Plessy v. Ferguson

400

If you threw a red stone into a green sea, what would it come back as?

Wet!

500
What is one impact of the French and Indian War?

Ask Snyder

500

What is the Monroe Doctrine? 

Telling Europe that they must stay out of the Western Hemisphere!

Dog peeing on a fire hydrant!!!

500

What is the name of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper? 

The Liberator

500

Lincoln suspended this during the civil war, which is the right to know why you're imprisoned. 

Habeas Corpus

500

This system was used to keep African Americans in poverty in the South and maintain a cheap labor supply

Sharecropping!

500

How many 6” by 6” books can you put in a (2ft x 2ft) container, so that it is not empty anymore?

1, then it's not empty!!