Founding Documents
What is "We the People"?
Everyone gets a vote in this form of government.
What is a democracy?
The 11 southern states that seceded from the Union went by this name.
What is the Confederacy?
These popular stories told fantastic stories of the West and were known for the amount that they cost.
What are dime novels?
A group of workers who band together to achieve better pay, safer working conditions, and other benefits.
What is a labor union?
The Bill of Rights is made up of Amendments, or changes, to the Constitution to protect rights. The Bill of Rights contains this many Amendments.
What is 10?
The form of government that North Korea currently has.
What is a dictatorship?
"Four score and seven years ago" marks the beginning of this famous speech given by President Lincoln.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This act in 1862 offered 160 free acres of land to those that paid a small filing fee and agreed to cultivate the land for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
John D. Rockefeller profited greatly to dominate the market in this industry.
What is oil?
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The power in a theocracy belongs to this.
What is a god or deity?
In September 1862, Lincoln issued this declaration that made all slaves in the Confederacy to be forever free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This form of mining involves shooting pressurized water onto mountainsides to expose precious minerals.
What is hydraulic mining?
This person dominated the steel industry by building his empire through both vertical and horizontal integration.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Having a weak central government, including not being able to levy taxes and regulate trade, caused these document to be replaced by the US Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
A form of government ruled by a group of powerful elites.
What is a oligarchy?
In March 1864, President Lincoln appointed this general as the commander of the whole Union Army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The Apache chief whose last words were "I should have never surrendered; I should have fought until I was the last man alive."
Who is Geronimo?
This immigrant developed a system for delivering electric power using alternating current (AC).
Who is Nikola Tesla?
Name the five rights protected by the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights?
What are the rights to speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition?
The person currently at the head of the British Monarch.
Who is King Charles III?
The battle at this place was considered to be "America's Bloodiest Day" during the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
Ranchers hired these people to round up their cattle.
What are cowboys?
The product that Pullman's company made when his workers went on strike.
What are manufactured railway sleeper cars or Pullman cars?