Who was president during the War of 1812 and also called the “Father of the Constitution”?

James Madison

Which president had the Indians removed to advance the settlement of the West. This became known as the “Trail of Tears?”

Andrew Jackson

What was the oldest, permanent English Colony in America?

Jamestown

What was an act of civil disobedience by the Sons of Liberty in protest of the British taxation policy? It led to the Intolerable Acts.

Boston Tea Party

What was the economic policy followed by the British where they tried to gain more power and wealth than their rivals by using their colonies? (unequal trade of cheap raw materials from colonies for expensive manufactured goods from Britain)

Mercantilism

What was the date of the settlement of the 1st permanent English colony?

1607

What was the year the U.S. bought the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon, because the French needed money to fight the British?

1803

What were the years of the Civil War between the North and South?

1861-1865

What year was the Constitutional Convention that began the writing of a new Constitution?

1787

What was one of the successes of the Articles of Confederation, where they made a plan on how to admit new states into the U.S. from its newly acquired territory?

Northwest Ordinance

Who wrote the pamphlet, “Common Sense” trying to persuade the colonists to support independence?

Thomas Paine

Who was the French noble who came to help the colonists in their fight with the British?

Marquis de Lafayette

What was the territorial acquisition which doubled the size of the United States? Purchased for the Port of New Orleans and the Mississippi River.

Louisiana Purchase

What was the last piece of territory purchased from Mexico in 1853 completing the continental United States?

Gadsden Purchase

What colony was established by the Pilgrims and Puritans for religious freedom?

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Which colony was originally a Dutch colony wanted by the British because of economic promise and an excellent harbor?

New York

Which colony was established for debtors and as a buffer for the other colonies from the Spanish in Florida?

Georgia

What was the political party formed in 1854 primarily in opposition to slavery? Lincoln was the first president elected from the party.

Republican Party

What was the “peoples’ party” that elected Andrew Jackson in 1828 and was said to support the common man?

Democratic Party

What was the political party favoring a strong central government, a national bank, and a loose interpretation of the Constitution?

Federalist Party

What was the document that was added to the Constitution guaranteeing the rights of the citizens of the U.S.?

Bill of Rights

What was the English document written in 1215 beginning the ideas of both a representative government and a limited government (limited power of the king)?

The Magna Carta

What was the document signed by the Pilgrims establishing the idea that laws should be agreed on by those who live under them?

Mayflower Compact

What was the battle known as the “Shot Heard Round the World” because it began the American Revolution?

Battle of Lexington

What was the year in which colonists declared independence from Britain?

1776

What was the battle fought in Virginia resulting in the British surrender and the end of the revolutionary war?

Battle of Yorktown

What was the decisive victory and turning point for the Americans during the Revolution? Because of this the French agreed to help the Patriots in the war against the British.

Battle of Saratoga

Which of the first political parties believed in a strict interpretation of the Constitution?

Democratic-Republicans

The following are examples of what? Veto, Senate approval of Presidential appointments, and declaring a law unconstitutional.

Checks and Balances

What is a system where the citizens elect representatives to actually carry out the powers of the government in their name?

Republicanism

What is it called when the powers and responsibilities of government are divided and shared between national and state governments?

Federalism

What was the site of the beginning of the Civil war where the Confederate army fired on a federal fort in South Carolina?

Battle of Fort Sumter

What was the location of the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S What was the location of the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant?

Appomattox Court House

What was the 1863 Document with the words “…all persons held as slaves within any state…in rebellion against the United States…shall be then thenceforward, and forever free”?

Emancipation Proclamation

Who was the man known as the “Great Compromiser” for his work to avoid war between the North and South?

Henry Clay

What was the compromise between the Virginia and New Jersey plan that made a two house legislature where each state sent two representatives to the Senate and representatives to the House based on their population?

Great Compromise

What was the Supreme Court case that made previous compromises unconstitutional by allowing slavery in all territories?

Dred Scott V. Sanford

What area did the U.S. get as a result of the Mexican War?

Mexican Cession

The annexation of Texas prompted which war The annexation of Texas prompted which war? (due to the dispute of where the border of Texas actually was)

The Mexican War

What was the battle where the Union gained full control of the Mississippi, splitting the Confederacy?

The Battle/Siege of Vicksburg

What was the natural resource in California that greatly expanded its population?

Gold

The Proclamation of 1763, by King George III, stopped colonists westward movement at which geographic feature?

The Appalachian Mountains

Slavery, the cotton gin and a mild climate led to the _____ system in the South.

Plantation

What caused many people in the northeast to move to the cities?

Industrialization

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence; became the 3rd President of the United States and in 1803, purchased the Louisiana territory, doubling the size of the United States?

Thomas Jefferson

Who was the leader of the Continental Army, President of the Constitutional Convention, and became the first President of the United States?

George Washington

Who was an inventor, statesman, diplomat, signer of the Declaration of Independence and delegate to Constitutional Convention?

Benjamin Franklin

What was the first American constitution What was the first American constitution? It was a very weak document that limited the power of the Congress by giving states the final authority over all decisions.

Articles of Confederation

What was the compromise that settled the issue of how states could count their slaves towards their population for representation in Congress and taxes?

3/5 Compromise

What are rights that cannot be given up, taken away or transferred What are rights that cannot be given up, taken away or transferred? They include life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Unalienable Rights

Who invented interchangeable parts and the cotton gin, a device that made processing raw cotton faster and easier? (The ability to process more cotton led to an increase in the number of slaves and the size of plantations.)

Eli Whitney

What was the law, under Jefferson’s presidency, that called for a total ban of trade with any foreign country?

Embargo of 1807

What was an agreement over slavery that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave act was passed?

The Compromise of 1850

What was the name of the idea that stated it was the destiny of the United States to have all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

Manifest Destiny

What was the gradual move of people from the country to cities What was the gradual move of people from the country to cities? This movement is mostly credited to an increase in jobs made available by the Industrial Revolution.

Urbanization

What is a tax on imported goods designed to protect a nations industry What is a tax on imported goods designed to protect a nations industry? These taxes increased the price of goods and were welcomed by the North and hated by the South.

Tariff

What was the writer that urged his readers to live as simple a life as possible and pioneered the idea of “Civil Disobedience?” The belief that people have a right to disobey unjust laws.

Henry David Thoreau

What was the term used to describe the years where “everyone felt good about the shape of our nations economy” and there was only one political party?

Era of Good Feelings

What woman traveled to England for the World Anti Slavery Convention and was not allowed to take part because she was a woman? She came back to America and pioneered the Woman’s Rights movement at the Seneca Falls Convention.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Which man was born a slave, learned to read, escaped, wrote an autobiography of his life and was a famous abolitionist?

Frederick Douglass