Marking Period 1
This strait was used by Native Americans use when moving from Asia to North America.
What was the Bering Strait/Bering Land Bridge?
This man led the Continental Army to victory, becoming the first American president.
Who was George Washington?
This branch of government makes laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This man was the famous Union president during the American Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
General William Tecumseh Sherman is credited with creating this style of warfare.
What is total war?
This is where New England colonists had the chance to propose and vote directly on laws.
What are town meetings?
This document assuring loyalty and asked King George III for a peaceful resolution.
This branch of government enforces laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
This state was added to the USA after the Mexican-American War, formerly known as the Bear-Flag Republic.
What is California?
This man was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This colony was described as a "City Upon a Hill," and was meant to be a model of Puritan living?
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
This was the name of Benjamin Franklin’s plan that suggested uniting the colonies under one government during the French and Indian War.
What was the Albany Plan (of Union)?
This branch of government can declare laws unconstitutional.
What is the Judicial branch?
This U.S. president asked Congress to declare war on Mexico, leading to the Mexican-American War.
Who was James K. Polk?
This was George Washington's solution to the smallpox outbreak in the winter camp of Valley Forge.
What was inoculation?
This was the voyage enslaved Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This Founding Father was a lawyer defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre and later helped lead the fight for American independence.
Who was John Adams?
This early political group, led by Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, supported a strong central government and a loose interpretation of the Constitution?
What was the Federalist Party?
This abolitionist tried to start a slave rebellion by attacking the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
These words were the start of the famous "Gettysburg Address."
What is "Four score and seven years ago..."?
This Virginia frontiersman who attacked and burned Jamestown in protest of Native American attacks.
After the Continental Army victory in this battle, the French decided to support the American Revolution, signing the Treaty of Alliance.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
What limited immigration and silence criticism of the federal government during a time of tension with France?
What were the Alien & Sedition Acts?
What was a border state?
This amendment protects you from eminent domain.
What is the 5th amendment?