Exploration & Slave Trade
The year Christopher Columbus first reached the Americas, beginning the Age of Exploration.
What is 1492?
The year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
The 1803 land deal with France that doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Father of the Constitution" and our 4th President
Who is James Madison?
This amendment protects the "Five Freedoms," including speech, religion, and press.
What is the 1st Amendment?
The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
What is the Middle Passage?
The 1777 battle known as the "Turning Point" because it convinced France to join the American side.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established the principle of Judicial Review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The French aristocrat who became a hero in the American Revolution and a "son" to Washington.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
The 4th Amendment protects citizens against this type of "unreasonable" police action.
What is Search and Seizure?
The primary "cash crop" in the South that led to a massive increase in the demand for enslaved labor.
What is Cotton?
The British law that prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The 1823 policy warning European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
: The inventor of the Cotton Gin, which inadvertently increased the need for slave labor.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The Reconstruction amendment that officially abolished slavery in the U.S
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1619 assembly in Virginia was the first representative government in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The final major battle where British General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The protest by Pennsylvania farmers over a federal tax that proved the new Constitution was strong.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
The escaped slave and abolitionist who published The North Star newspaper.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The amendment that granted "Equal Protection" and citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The economic system where colonies exist to provide raw materials and wealth to the "Mother Country."
What is Mercantilism?
The 1783 treaty that officially ended the war and recognized American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
George Washington’s final speech where he warned against "permanent alliances" and "political parties."
What is his Farewell Address?
The woman known as "The Moses of her people" for leading slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This amendment guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?