Documents
What was the "first constitution of the United States" creating a "league of friendship" between the 13 colonies?
Articles of Confederation
What was the first successful colony in the US?
Jamestown
What act put a tax on sugar and molasses?
Sugar Act
What is the belief in the US's right in moving westward for territorial expansion?
Manifest Destiny
Who sailed the ocean blue in 1492? Landing in the Carribean?
Christopher Columbus
What document written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued for women's rights?
Declaration of Sentiments
What was the trading system called where Europeans brought Old World products to trade for New World products?
The Columbian Exchange
What act put a tax on paper goods, requiring stamps?
The Stamp Act
What is the term for having pride and unity in your own nation?
Nationalism
Who won the 1860 election, sparking the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What document declared all enslaved people free in "areas of rebellion"?
Emancipation Proclamation
What colony disappeared in 1587? Leaving the word "Croaton" carved in a tree?
Roanoke Colony
What act created a monopoly for the British East India Company, leading to the Boston Tea Party?
Tea Acts
What belief was the Second Great Awakening centered on?
Religious revival
Who was the Union Army General during the Civil War--also becoming President afterwards?
Ulysses S Grant
What document drew a line at the 36'30 latitude, prohibiting slavery above that line?
Missouri Compromise
What rebellion convinced the founding fathers to change the Articles of Confederation?
Shays Rebellion
What act stated that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
What is the term for having loyalty to ones state over ones nation?
Sectionalism
Who was the Confederate Army General during the Civil War?
Robert E Lee
What amendment abolished Slavery? (Bonus Points! Can you also name the amendment that protected birthright citizenship?)
13th (Bonus: 14th!)
Legislative, Executive and Judicial
What set of acts were in reaction to the Boston Tea Party, to punish them?
Intolerable Acts
What is the difference between Federalism and Democratic-Republicanism?
Federalism wanted the federal government to have more power, and DR wanted more state power
The Federalist Party was led by....
Alexander Hamilton