Dates
This year Columbus sailed to the Americas.
What is 1492?
A settlement ruled by a distant country.
What is a colony?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This document lists the first 10 amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This protest involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Jamestown was founded in this year.
What is 1607?
Refusing to buy goods as a protest.
What is a boycott?
First President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This document declared independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The first battles of the American Revolution were fought here.
What are Lexington and Concord?
The Declaration of Independence was signed in this year.
What is 1776?
Sharing power between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
He was president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This document created the U.S. government.
What is the Constitution?
This battle convinced France to help the colonies.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The Constitution was written in this year.
What is 1787?
A system that prevents one branch from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
She helped enslaved people escape using the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This plan created a two-house legislature.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
This battle ended the American Revolution
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This war was fought from 1861–1865.
What is the Civil War?
The idea that government gets power from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
He surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This principle means the government is not all-powerful and must obey the law.
What is limited government?
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?