French and Indian War
A young Virginian man who fired on the French first
Who is George Washington?
Shot heard around the world
What is the battle of Lexington and Concord?
Another word for kidnapping of American sailors
What is impressment?
This state was annexed and it set off a series of events that led to the Mexican American War.
What is Texas?
What is abolition?
City of three rivers
What is Pittsburgh?
Meeting where George Washington was nominated
What is the Second Continental Congress?
Americans accused the British of doing this with the Native Americans and became a cause of the War of 1812
What is arming the Native Americans?
The United States believed this river was the western border of Texas
What is the Rio Grande?
Confederate troops fired the first shots at the Union fort in South Carolina
What is Fort Sumter?
England versus ....
What is France?
Turning point battle that convinced the French to join the American Revolution.
What is the battle of Saratoga?
Hero at the Battle of New Orleans (HINT: He became the 7th President)
Who is Andrew Jackson?
He is remembered as the President who asked Congress to declare war against Mexico because they "shed American blood upon American soil."
Who is James K. Polk?
What is Gettysburg?
Treaty that ended the war
What is the Treaty of Paris 1763?
Winter Retreat that was anything but spa-like
What is Valley Forge?
Treaty that ended the War of 1812
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe- Hildago?
Union troops were able to split the Confederacy with the siege of Vicksburg and gained complete control of this river.
What is the Mississippi River?
Effect: They paid for the war in North America.
Who are the colonists?
Treaty that ended the War
Treaty of Paris, 1783
France Scott Key wrote this poem and it became the National Anthem
What is the Star-Spangled Banner?
The United States paid $15 million for the land of California, Utah, Nevada, parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.
What is the Mexican Cession?
Where Confederate General Robert E. Lee met with Union General Ulysses S. Grant to surrender
What is Appomattox Courthouse or Appomattox, Virginia?