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Unit 1: Exploration & Colonization
Unit 2: The American Revolution
Unit 3: American Government
Unit 4: Early America & Westward Expansion
Unit 5: Civil War & Reconstruction
100

These are the three things that explorers hoped to gain from the New World. (3 G's)

What is God, Gold, and Glory?

100

This general used strategic retreat during the American Revolution to make sure his men weren't entering into situations that they weren't prepared for.

Who is George Washington?

100

These are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution written by James Madison?

What is the Bill of Rights?

100

This occurred during Jackson's presidency. This was the forced removal of 15,000 Cherokee out of Georgia into Oklahoma.

What is the Trail of Tears?

100

This prominent abolitionist advocated for formerly enslaved people and urged Lincoln to let them fight on behalf of the Union army.

Who is Frederick Douglass?

200
The name of the representative government in Jamestown.

What is the House of Burgesses?

200

This battle brought the American Revolution to an end.

What is the Battle of Yorktown?

200

Name three weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

What is no executive or judicial branch, no power to tax, couldn't regulate trade, no national currency, no army, unicameral legislature, and weak central government?


200

This established if a state would be a free state or slave state and established the 36'30 line.

What is the Missouri Compromise?

200
This is where Lee surrenders to Grant, ending the Civil War.

What is Appomattox Court House?

300

This group of people came from England and settled in Pennsylvania.

What is the Quakers?

300

The name of the event in which delegates from every colony except Georgia met in Philadelphia. It was the first time most of the colonies worked together.

What is the First Continental Congress?

300

This was one of the first two political parties. They believed in a weak central government, an economy based on agriculture, and they opposed the National Bank.

What is the Democratic Republicans?

300

This said that the Western hemisphere was closed to colonization by Europeans.

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

300

This act required any enslaved people who escaped slavery to be brought back to the South to be enslaved again.

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

400

This is someone who agreed to work in the New World for 4-7 years before receiving their freedom.

What is an indentured servant?

400

These two events were causes of the American Revolution because they led people to question traditional authority.

What is the Great Awakening & the Enlightenment?

400
These two documents influenced the creation of the Bill of Rights.
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights & the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
400
What is the name of the invention that caused an increase in slavery in the South?

What is the cotton gin?

400

This Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved people are property and therefore cannot sue for their freedom. It also undoes all previous land compromises.

What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?

500

This ultimately helped make the Jamestown settlement successful. (Be specific)

What is cash crops like tobacco?

500

The event that occurred after the Boston Massacre.

What is the Boston Tea Party?

500

This was a similarity between the VA Plan, NJ Plan, and CT Plan during the Constitutional Convention. (Think about power in the federal government)

What is three branches of government?

500

This was one of the main reasons that the Era of Good Feelings was considered "good." (Think about the government)

What is there was only one political party with the Democratic Republicans?

500

This book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe was seen as a powerful anti-slavery tool that helped increase the abolition movement.

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?