What is the place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778, a 4th of troops died here from disease and malnutriton, Steuben comes and trains troops?
valley forge
100
What is the 1st permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
100
What is the religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England, came to America for freedom and settled in the Massachusetts Bay?
Puritans.
100
What is the due process, double jeopardy, self-incrimination, eminent domain? "You have the right to remain silent."
Fifth Amendment
100
What colony was started by Roger Williams and offered freedom of religion and separation of church and state?
Rhode Island
200
What is the 1803 purchase of territory from France. Made by Jefferson, that doubled the size of the US?
Louisiana Purchas
200
What is the 1783 peace agreement that officially ended the revolutionary war and established Britian's formal recognition of the US?
Treaty of Paris
200
What is the 1773 protest against British taxes in which colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea?
Boston Tea Party
200
What is the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances?
First Amendment
200
Where was the haven for Catholics?
Maryland
300
What is the 1823 that declared that Europe should not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere and that any attempt at interference by a European power would be seen as a threat to the U.S?
Monroe Doctrine
300
Who is the American abolitionist and writer, that escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer?
Fredrick Douglas
300
Who is the American abolitionist that was born a slave on a Maryland plantation, escaped to the North in 1849 and became the most renowned conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
300
What is the right to keep and bear arms?
Second Amendment
300
What were the Middle colonies?
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey & Delaware.
400
What is the war fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area that the English won?
French and Indian War
400
What is a Spanish system that allowed colonists to demand labor from Native Americans?
Encomienda
400
What is a system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North?
Underground Railroad
400
What is the prohibition of excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment?
Eighth Amendment
400
What colony didn't agree with the Puritans?
Connecticut
500
What allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, and prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory?
Missouri Compromise
500
Who is the American slave who sued his master for keeping him enslaved in a territory where slavery was banned under the missouri Compromise?
Dred Scott
500
What is the first agreement for self-government in America?
Mayflower Compact
500
What is the powers of States and people?
Tenth Amendment
500
What colony suffered religious persecutution by King for disagreeing with Church of England?