Who was the inventor,statesman,diplomat,signer of the Declaration of Independence and delegate to the Constitutional Convention?
Who was Ben Franklin?
100
Which amendment states that the people have rights other than those specifically mentioned in the Constitution?
What is the 9th amendment?
100
The Civil War fought from?
What is 1861-1865?
100
What is a tax on goods brought into a country?
What is a tariff?
100
What protected the rights of English citizens and became the basis for the ?
What is the English Bill of Rights
200
Who was a powerful Kentucky Congressman and Senator?
Who was Henry Clay?
200
Which amendment guarantees the right to vote to all citizens regardless of race?
What was the 15th amendment?
200
Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement, was founded in?
What is 1607?
200
What is the belief that the United States should own all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
What is the Manifest Destiny?
200
What ended the American Revolution?
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
300
Who became famous for his fiery speeches in favor of American Independence?
Who was Patrick Henry?
300
This protects and accused person from having to testify against him or herself?
What was the 5th amendment?
300
President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in?
What is 1803?
300
What was the era in which a change from household industries to factory production using powered machinery took place?
What was the Industrial Revolution?
300
What stated that, "no state... can lawfully get out of the Union", but pledged there would be no ware unless the South started it?
What is the Lincoln's First Inaugural Address?
400
Who was the author of the Monroe Doctrine?
Who was James Monroe?
400
Which amendment states that powers not given to the federal government belong to the states?
What is the 10th amendment?
400
President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in?
What is July 4, 1776?
400
What is a system of government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them?
What is the Representative of Government?
400
What was the agreement signed in 1620 by the Pilgrims in Plymouth, to consult each other about laws for the colony and a promise to work together and make it succeed?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
500
What convention did Elizabeth Cady Stanton organize in the United States?
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
500
Which amendment guarantees the right to a speedy public trial by an impartial jury?
What is the 6th amendment?
500
when did Samuel F. B. Morse perfect the telegraph?
What is 1832?
500
What is an economic theory that a country's strength is measured by the amount of gold it has, that a country should sell more than it buys and that the colonies exist for the benefit for the Mother Country?
What is Mercantilism?
500
What was a foreign policy stated that the U.S would not interfere in European affairs and that the western hemisphere was closed to colonization?