Colonial America
This European explorer's 1492 voyage reached the Caribbean.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The Declaration of Independence was adopted in this year.
What is 1776?
The belief that the United States was destined to expand across North America was called this.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The economic crash that began after the 1929 stock market crash is known by this name.
What is the Great Depression?
I was the principal author of the Constitution and later became the 4th president of the United States.
Who is James Madison?
Founded in 1607, this was the first permanent English settlement in what became the United States.
What is Jamestown?
This document establishes the current system of government in the United States.
What is the Constitution?
The United States purchased a huge amount of land from France in 1803 in this deal.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This president led the United States through most of World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt/FDR?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The Pilgrims traveled to America aboard this ship.
What is the Mayflower?
Congress is divided into the House of Representatives and this other chamber.
What is the Senate?
Abraham Lincoln's election helped trigger the secession of several states in this region.
What is the South?
During the Cold War, the United States' main rival was this country.
What is the Soviet Union/USSR?
I escaped slavery and became a famous abolitionist, writer, and speaker.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This crop helped Jamestown become economically successful.
What is tobacco?
The executive, legislative, and judicial are the three ______ of government. (FILL IN THE BLANK)
What are branches?
Lincoln issued this famous document declaring enslaved people in rebelling states free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks destroyed these two famous New York skyscrapers.
What are the Twin Towers/World Trade Center towers?
I was a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad who helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This 1773 protest involved colonists dumping British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This amendment gave U.S. citizenship to people born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This scandal led Richard Nixon to resign from the presidency in 1974.
What is Watergate?
I became the first African American president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?