People
Considered the "Father of the Constitution"
Who is James Madison?
The highest law and pattern for government in the United States
What is the Constitution?
The first permanent English settlement in America
What is Jamestown?
The year the Declaration of Independence was signed
What is 1776
Army that fought alongside the colonists during the French and Indian War
What is the British?
The natural flow of water emptying into another body of water
What is a river?
Wrote The American Spelling Book
Who is Noah Webster?
The branch of the United States government that enforces laws
What is the Executive branch?
Land acquisition that nearly doubled the size of America
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
BONUS
The battle cry during the Battle of San Jacinto
What is "Remember the Alamo!"?
Man who wrote the national anthem
Who is Francis Scott Key?
A large saltwater area partly or completely enclosed by land
What is a sea?
Man who invented the steel plow
Who is John Deere?
The ten amendments of the Constitution stating the right and freedoms of United States citizens
What is the Bill of Rights?
The first colony to offer complete religious freedom
What is Rhode Island?
The year the Pilgrims sailed to America and Plymouth was founded
What is 1620
Land purchased from Mexico
What is the Mexican Cession?
An inland body of freshwater
What is a lake?
BONUS
Mexican dictator
Who is Santa Anna?
The first president who was a member of the Democratic Party
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Bought from Mexico so a railroad could be built
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The year Columbus discovered the New World
What is 1492?
Location of the Gold Rush
What is California?
A narrow, manmade channel of water that joins other bodies of water
What is a canal?
Remembered as the "Father of Anerican Missions"
Who is Adoniram Judson?
Act that forced Native Americans to give up their tribal lands and move west
What is the Indian Removal Act?
State where one can find the Wilderness Road
What is Kentucky?
Years the War of 1812 was fought
1812-1815
Type of work ethic that is an important part of America's heritage
What is Puritan?
A large body of water reaching into the land having a wide opening
What is a bay?
Known as the "Father of Modern Revivalism"
Who is Charles Finney?
Man who led the Texan Army to victory in the Battle of San Jacinto and became president of the Republic of Texas
Who is Sam Houston?
Land explored by the Corps of Discovery
What is the Louisiana Territory?
The year that the Constitution was adopted
What is 1787?
Land that was purchased from Spain
What is the Florida Territory?
The direction toward which a river flows
What is downstream?
Man who invented the cotton gin
Who was Eli Whitney?
What is a constitutional republic?
A trail that began in Independence, Missouri
What is the Oregon Trail?
Years the American War for Independence was fought (i.e. "2020-2024")
1775-1781
Treaty that established the northeastern border between the United States and Canada
What is the Webster Asburton Treaty?
The difficult journey to Oklahoma in which many Cherokee died
What is the Trail of Tears?