Vocabulary
Manifest Destiny
What is the belief that the US should own all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
Bleeding Kansas
French and Indian War
What is the war between France and Britain?
George Washington
Who is the 1st President of the United States?
13th Amendment
What is the amendment that abolished slavery?
Suffrage
What is the right to vote?
Treaty of Paris of 1783
What is the treaty that ended the American Revolution?
Battle of Gettysburg
What is the single most deadly battle in American history? (Also shut down Confederate chances of invading the North during the Civil War)
Ulysses S. Grant
Who is the commanding general of the Union Army during the Civil War?
1st Amendment
What is freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly & petition?
Popular Sovereignty
What is the practice of allowing each territory to decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery? (power of the people)
Mayflower Compact
What is the agreement signed in 1620 by the Pilgrims in Plymouth (with early democratic principles)?
Battle of Saratoga
What is the Revolutionary War battle that led to the Treaty of Alliance, establishing an alliance between the U.S. and France?
Thomas Jefferson's Political Parties
What is Anti-Federalist AND Democratic-Republican?
James Madison
Who is the father of the Constitution? (Also our 4th President)
Theocracy
What is a form of government where a state is ruled by religious leaders or officials believed to have divine guidance
Monroe Doctrine
What is a document signed by James Monroe stating for European nations not to interfere with foreign affairs in the Western Hemisphere?
What was the multi-day siege during Texas' war for independence that became a rallying cry during the Texas Revolution and Mexican-American war?
Eli Whitney
Who is the person that invented the Cotton Gin in 1793
Dred Scott v. Sandford
What is the landmark Supreme Court case that stripped all African Americans (free or enslaved) of U.S. citizenship?
Federalism vs. Federalist
Federalism: What is the political system in which government powers are divided between a national (federal) government and smaller regional (state) governments.
Federalist: What is the Political Party that supported a strong central (federal) government. Their opposition were the Anti-Federalists.
Shays' Rebellion
What is an armed uprising where President George Washington established the precedent that the President can mobilize the military to neutralize (shut down) domestic threats.
Barbary Wars
What are the series of wars in which the U.S. fought Barbary pirates in Northern Africa in order to guarantee safe passage of merchant trade ships and stop paying tributes to pirates.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
535
What is the total number of members of Congress? (In 2026)