Westward Expansion
Question: This purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the United States.
Answer: What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Question: This reform movement worked to end slavery in the United States.
Answer: What is abolition?
Question: This document announced the colonies’ freedom from Britain in 1776.
Answer: What is the Declaration of Independence?
Question: This inventor, printer, and statesman helped write the Declaration of Independence.
Answer: Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Question: Europeans used this term to describe North and South America after exploration.
Answer: What is the New World?
Question: This idea claimed it was America’s destiny to spread across the continent.
Answer: What is Manifest Destiny?
Question: Dorothea Dix worked to improve conditions for people in these institutions.
Answer: What are mental hospitals/asylums?
Question: Colonists protested this British tax on paper goods in 1765.
Answer: What is the Stamp Act?
Question: This woman helped guide Lewis and Clark on their western expedition.
Answer: Who is Sacagawea?
Question: Christopher Columbus sailed for this country in 1492.
Answer: What is Spain?
Question: This famous trail led settlers from Missouri to the Pacific Northwest.
Answer: What is the Oregon Trail?
Question: This movement fought for women’s rights and held a convention at Seneca Falls in 1848.
Answer: What is the women’s suffrage movement?
Question: The “shot heard round the world” was fired at these two battles.
Answer: What are Lexington and Concord?
Question: This Virginia colonist helped Pocahontas and became leader of Jamestown.
Answer: Who is John Smith?
Question: This exchange brought plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas.
Answer: What is the Columbian Exchange?
Question: People rushed to California in 1849 searching for this valuable metal.
Answer: What is gold?
Question: Horace Mann worked to improve this type of education for all children.
Answer: What is public education?
Question: This winter camp tested George Washington’s army during 1777–1778.
Answer: What is Valley Forge?
Question: This president warned against political parties and foreign alliances in his Farewell Address.
Answer: Who is George Washington?
Question: This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire.
Answer: Who is Hernán Cortés?
Question: Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were sent west by this president.
Answer: Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Question: This former slave became a famous speaker and abolitionist writer.
Answer: Who is Frederick Douglass?
Question: This 1781 battle was the final major battle of the American Revolution.
Answer: What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Question: This Patriot’s midnight ride warned colonists that the British were coming in 1775.
Answer: Who is Paul Revere?
Question: This 1607 settlement in Virginia became the first permanent English colony in North America.
Answer: What is Jamestown?