Civil War
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This 1803 purchase from France roughly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are collectively known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This document, adopted on July 4, 1776, declared the American colonies independent from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These three groups of colonies were the New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies, and this third group.
What are the "Southern Colonies"?
This battle, fought in 1863 in Pennsylvania, is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This idea, popular in the 1800s, held that it was America's God-given right and destiny to expand across the entire continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This is the number of branches of government established by the U.S. Constitution.
What is three?
Colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians dumped 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor during this 1773 protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This colony was the first permanent English settlement in America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown (Virginia)?
This constitutional amendment, ratified in 1865, officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
This trail, stretching roughly 2,000 miles, was the primary overland route used by pioneers heading to the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This branch of government is responsible for making laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This term describes the colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the Revolutionary War.
Who are the Loyalists?
The Pilgrims signed this agreement aboard the Mayflower in 1620, establishing self-government for their new colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Lincoln delivered this famous speech at the dedication of a military cemetery in November 1863.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This 1862 law offered 160 acres of free land to settlers who agreed to live on and improve the land for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This system ensures that no single branch of government becomes too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
This 1765 British law sparked widespread colonial outrage and the famous slogan "No taxation without representation" by taxing legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards.
What is the stamp act?
This cash crop was vital to the economy of Virginia and other Southern colonies.
What is tobacco?
This was the name of the Confederate president during the Civil War.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This 1830 law forced Native American tribes in the Southeast to relocate west of the Mississippi River, leading to the tragic "Trail of Tears."
What is the Indian Removal Act?
These were the two opposing sides in the debate over ratifying the Constitution, with one group supporting it and one opposing it.
Who are the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists?
This battle, fought in April 1775 in Massachusetts, is considered the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
The triangular trade route connected the colonies, Europe, and Africa, with enslaved people being transported to the Americas on this horrific leg of the journey.
What is the Middle Passage?