Colonies and Revolution
The Constitution
Early Presidents
Grab Bag
America Expands
100

True or False

African Americans in the Colonial Era faced similar challenges in the North and South.

True

The African Americans all faced injustices, they were very different depending on where they lived.

100

The Great Compromise solved this problem faced by founding fathers and the Philadelphia Convention.

How to represent large and small states in Congress.

100

This was one of President Washington's main goals.

To gain respect for the United States among nations.
100

Anti-Federalists did not like the Constitution because

there was no Bill of Rights to protect personal liberties.

100


In which territory did Sam Houston lead troops at the Battle of San Jacinto?

D

200

He formed the Sons of Liberty.

Sam Adams

200

The Three-Fifths Compromise resolved this issue.

How enslaved people would be counted in the population.

200

List two facts about Jefferson. (or three!)

He believed in strict interpretation of the Constitution.

He supporters were farmers and tradespeople.

He believed the national bank was unconstitutional.

200

Who won the War of 1812?

There was no clear winner!

(But we did get Uncle Sam, the Star Spangled Banner, and Andrew Jackson became a war hero)

200


Which territory was acquired through the Mexican-American War?


B

300

The Sugar and the Stamp Act were attempts to

raise money in the colonies to pay down debt from the French and Indian War.

300

Delegates who attended the Philadelphia (Constitutional) Convention were originally supposed to do this.

Amend the Articles of Confederation.

(But Rhode Island was not there!)


300

True or False

George Washington thought political parties were good for America.

False- He thought they were a source of division.


300

In 1848, gold was discovered in __________.  The gold brought an explosion in population, increased diversity, and more people traveling west.

California

300


Lewis, Clark, and the Corps of Discovery explored this territory that the US bought from France by following the Missouri River


400

One reaction to the Intolerable Acts was to meet at the _______________.

First Continental Congress

400

Shays' Rebellion convinced many Americans that

a stronger national government was needed.

400

The Monroe Doctrine stated that 

further European colonization in the Western Hemisphere was not welcome.

400

The Second Great Awakening can best be described as a style of religious worship that is

 democratic and with great enthusiasm.

400


The British and the United States co-occupied which territory?


500

One piece of propaganda that changed public opinion to support independence was:

Hint: there are two possible correct answers!

The Bloody Massacre by Paul Revere 

and

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

500

The Electoral College was created to

limit the people's power to elect a president directly.

500

He was the President when Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana Territory.

Thomas Jefferson

500

Define Manifest Destiny

The belief that the US had a divine mission to spread liberty across the continent.

500

As part of the American System, the US built many canals.  Which of these letters is closest to the Erie Canal?



D