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This colony mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind only the word “Croatoan."
What is the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
This 1773 protest involved colonists dumping British goods into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This Scottish-born industrialist made his fortune in steel and promoted the “Gospel of Wealth.”
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The legislative branch of the U.S. government is made up of these two houses.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This 1620 document was an early step toward self-government in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The idea that it was America’s fate to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This famous baseball player, nicknamed the “Sultan of Swat,” became a national hero.
Who is Babe Ruth?
This is the minimum age a person must be to run for President.
What is 35 years old?
The transatlantic trade route exchanged enslaved persons, goods, and raw materials between Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This winter camp was where Washington’s army trained and survived extreme conditions in 1777–78.
What is Valley Forge?
Known for inventing the steamboat, he made upstream travel practical.
Who is Robert Fulton?
This amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
This was the first elected legislative assembly in the American colonies.
What are Britain and France?
The original U.S. government structure after the Revolution, which proved too weak.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This famous anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe increased tensions between North and South.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.
What is nine (9)?
This rebellion in 1676 exposed tensions between frontier settlers and Virginia’s colonial government.
This rebellion in 1676 exposed tensions between frontier settlers and Virginia’s colonial government.
This series of essays supported the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This order, issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, announced that all enslaved people living in areas controlled by the Confederacy were now free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
In 1975, the evacuation of this city in South Vietnam marked the official end of the Vietnam War and a U.S. defeat.
What is the Fall of Saigon? Or what is Saigon?
As Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, this man strengthened the power of the federal government and established the principle of judicial review.
Who is John Marshall?