Early Government
This is our current governing document.
What is the Consitution?
These people wanted to break away from England.
What are patriots?
This is the belief that God wanted Americans to possess all land west to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This battle had no casualties (unless you count the horse).
What is Fort Sumter?
This president set the standard for all presidents.
Who is George Washington?
This compromise allows for 3 out of 5 slaves to be counted towards a state's population in the census.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This person is considered the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This trail was the most important for settlers and missionaries going west.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This actor ended his career with the dramatic assassination of President Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Before becoming president, this man wrote the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
This is a system with two legislative houses.
What is the bicameral system?
What is the Boston Massacre?
This is the nickname for people who moved to California during the gold rush.
What are forty-niners?
This battle became known as the bloodiest day in American history.
What is Antietam?
After giving the longest inaugural address ever, this man set a record for being the first president to die in office.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This is the type of government the founding fathers believed we should have.
What is a republic?
These are the three inalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
This was the mega deal of the 19th century.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This general led the Union Army to victory, and then led the country after that.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
While battling through Reconstruction, this president was the first to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
These had the most power under the Articles of Confederation.
What are states?
This is the battle where the British surrendered.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This man led families to Texas to settle under the Mexican government.
Who is Stephen Austin?
This political party supported freedmen and their rights to work.
Who are the Republicans?
This president's Doctrine warned European countries to stay out of the Western Hemisphere....or else!
Who is James Monroe?