Revolutionary War
This cost of this war was the driving force behind the British Parliament raising taxes on the colonies and creating the desire for independence from Britain.
What is the French and Indian War
The name of the fort built by George Washington when facing the French but was built at the bottom of a ravine so that cannons could easily shoot over the walls. The surrender of this fort ended up sparking the French and Indian War.
What is Fort Necessity
This type of colony was controlled directly by the King, and not by any proprietors or charter.
What is a Royal Colony
This Senator from Illinois who was a proponent of popular sovereignty sparked controversy when he wanted to change the Missouri Compromise in order to get a railroad run through his home state.
Who is Stephen Douglas
This policy created a three-stage plan to create states out of the Northwest Territory and laid the foundation for how new states were admitted to the Union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This battle was one of the first fought in the Revolutionary War and was lost because the American soldiers had to retreat when they ran out of Ammunition.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill
The name of the imaginary line in the Appalachian Mountains where the British King proclaimed the colonists could not expand west of.
What is the Proclamation line.
This belief that an obedience to scripture is not necessary for a proper relationship to God got Ann Hutchinson banned from Massachusetts colony.
What is Antinomianism
This southern statesman ended up being selected to become President of the Confederate States of American after many southern states seceded from the Union
Who is Jefferson Davis
This policy cleared the way for Missouri to join American as a slave state by also admitting Maine as a free state, and outlawing slavery north of Missouri’s southern border.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This American Ordinance chief surprised the British and forced them to retreat from Boston when he transported heavy artillery from hundreds of miles away.
Who is Henry Knox
This was the location in Virginia where General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant, thus ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House
This legislative body in the Virginia Colony was the first self-governing assembly in America
What is the House of Burgesses
This Congressman from South Carolina savagely beat a Northern Senator with his cane on the floor of the Senate Chambers.
Who is Preston Brooks
This policy was enacted after the Civil War and required that a majority of voters in each southern state had to sign an oath of allegiance before that state could be readmitted to the Union.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This battle was pivotal in the Revolutionary way because the victory won by the Americans there convinced the French to enter the war on our side.
What is the Battle of Saratoga
This famous spot is the location where the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads met, forming the first Transcontinental railroad.
What is Promontory Point, Utah
This Quaker was named the Proprietor of Pennsylvania by the King.
Who is William Penn
This destructive path across Georgia was performed by Union General Sherman in order to deprive the South of food and supplies.
What is Sherman’s March to the Sea
This policy encouraged settlers to move west by offering a land grant of 160 acres provided they lived on the land and improved it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This British General got his forces surrounded at Yorktown and was forced to surrender to Washington and the Continental Army, effectively ending the Revolutionary War.
Who is Charles Cornwallis
This Naval Base was the sight of a devastating sneak attack on U.S. forces by the Japanese Navy and was the reason the United States entered World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor
This colony near New York was originally settled by both the Dutch and the Swedes before being taken over by the English.
What is New Jersey
This battle during the Civil War was the first clear cut defeat of the South’s Army of Northern Virginia.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg.
This policy became a constitutional amendment and prohibited the sale, manufacture, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.
What is Prohibition?