Cities
This place was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This European people first settled New York.
Who are the Dutch?
The United States Constitution set up a government with these three branches.
What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches?
John Brown raided this southern city, site of a federal armory, in an effort to begin a slave rebellion.
What is Harper's Ferry?
What is cotton?
In this city, British tax collectors were tarred and feathered. It was also the home of Paul Revere.
What is Boston?
This is a collective name for those who fought for the abolition of slavery.
Who are Abolitionists?
This document, authored by Mott and Day, demanded equality for women.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This document signed by Lincoln freed the slaves in the rebelling states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
During the Civil War, this group of people left the house and entered the work force, occupying jobs previously held by those doing most of the fighting.
Who are women?
The Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were both signed in this city.
What is Philadelphia?
This President signed the Alien & Sedition Acts.
Who is John Adams?
This the collective name for these original amendments which protect Americans' basic rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This formerly enslaved activist learned how to read, wrote an influential account of his life, and sparred with Lincoln. He is known for his address "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?"
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
This is a tax on imports, popular amongst the Americans in the 1800s as a way of protecting and growing their industry & manufacturing.
What is a tariff?
This PA city was the site of a decisive battle where the Union was unusually on the defensive in a fish-hook shape.
What is Gettysburg?
This President's election was known as the "Revolution of 1800."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed citizen for formerly enslaved people, and granted the right to vote to Black Americans.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
John O'Sullivan came up with the idea of "Manifest Destiny," which can be described as this.
What is the Rio Grande River?
The British surrendered at this place with the aid of French ships in the nearby harbor.
What is Yorktown?
This person invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This colonial-era document from 1775 was a last-ditch attempt by the American colonists to have the king listen to their demands.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This military leader fought to protect the indigenous way of life in the War of 1812.
Who is Tecumseh?
Franklin Pierce, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Nathaniel Hawthorne are all graduates of this, the finest educational institution in the land.
What is Bowdoin College?