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The Colonies
The Declaration of Independence
US GEOGRAPHY
US Antebellum Years
Reconstruction--and beyond!
100
It's the number of colonies in 1776.
What is 13
100
He not only wrote the Declaration but he became a president too!
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
Of the seven continents, it's the one that includes the United States.
What is North America?
100
This Compromise of 1820 added two states to the union one slave and one free.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
Of presidents Garfield, Hayes, and Grant the one NOT during the Reconstruction era.
Who is Garfield?
200
Jamestown was the first English colony founded in this present day state.
What is Virginia
200
The Declaration says that all humans have life, liberty, and this.
What is the pursuit of happiness?
200
It's the country directly north of the United States,eh!
What is Canada?
200
Think of a year when this compromise added California to the union as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850.
200
This president was impeached during the Reconstruction era.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
Savanna a colonial prison colony later develops into this larger southern colny.
What is Georgia?
300
T. Jefferson borrowed the ideas for his Declaration from this English enlightened philosopher.
Who is John Locke?
300
It's the ocean directly east of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
She founded the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls in New York State in 1848.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
300
This agency helped freed slaves adjust to freedom.
What is Freedmens' Bureau?
400
Of North Carolina, Massachussetts, or South Carolina the colony that is ideal for growing tobacco.
What is North Carolina
400
These are the God given rights that Jefferson speaks of.
What are inalienable rights?
400
I'm trembling to say that this state is the home of many earthquakes.
What is California?
400
She was saddened to be informed that her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, may have been responsible for starting the Civil War.
Who is Harriett Beecher Stowe?
400
This type of economic system replaced slavery in the south after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
500
This institution was developed in the colonies to provide the harsh labor on the southern plantations.
What is Slavery?
500
According to Jefferson, a government fails and can be changed if it fails to do this for its citizens.
What is protect and serve?
500
These areas along the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans get adequate precipitation conducive to the growth of forests.
What are the coastal plains?
500
This president created the Spoils System.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
500
It may be for the birds, but this type of law set up segregation in the south after Reconstruction.
What is Jim Crow?