Government
The grouping of the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A Confederate attack on this military installation began the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The first permanent English settlement, it was founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This British act angered colonists by placing a tax on printed materials in 1765.
What is the Stamp Act?
The acquisition of this land from France doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is The Louisiana Purchase?
This was the first governing document of the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This presidential order freed enslaved people in Confederate territory.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This document established the parameters of self-government for the Pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This slogan expressed the American colonist's resentment and opposition to British taxation.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
The name given to the forced relocation of the "Five Civilized Tribes" of Native Americans, including their black slaves, between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.
What is The Trail of Tears?
This U.S. policy warned Europe not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The name given to the period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This 'cash crop' allowed the Virginia colony to become profitable.
What is Tobacco?
This document enumerated the colonies' reasons and then announced their separation from Britain.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
The name given to the tracks that connected the East and West coasts by train in 1869.
What is The Transcontinental Railroad?
This meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 produced the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
He was the sitting president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This religious revival swept the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
What is The Great Awakening?
He commanded the Continental Army which was formed by the colonies to fight Britain.
Who is George Washington?
On this 'date that will live in infamy', the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor while holding peace talks in Washington, DC.
What December 7, 1941?
The title given to the group of colonial delegates which met and organized resistance to Britain in 1774.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in this location.
What is Appomattox Court House?
This colonial preacher delivered the famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
He is considered the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Born in Ohio, he was the first human to walk on the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?