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History Simulation
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jamestown was founded in | 1607 |
| Declaration of Independence was signed on | July 4, 1776 |
| The United States Constitution was written in the year | 1787 |
| Louisiana purchase was in the year | 1803 |
| Civil War was fought in the years | 1861 - 1865 |
| The first battle of the American Revolution: | Concord, 1775 |
| The turning point in the American Revolution: | Battle of Saratoga, 1777 |
| The end of the American Revolution: | Battle of Yorktown, 1781 |
| The treaty that ended the American Revolution: | Treaty of Paris 1783 |
| The first shots of the Civil War were fired at * on * | Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861 |
| The turning point in the Civil War | Battle of Gettysburg - Northern Victory |
| The capture of this city in 1863 gave the North control over the Mississippi river | Vicksburg |
| Where General Lee surrendered to General Grant | Appomattox Court House |
| A strong sense of loyalty to a state or section instead of to the whole country | Sectionalism |
| A campaign against the sale or drinking of alcohol. | Temperance Movement |
| The first representative assembly in the new world | Virginia House of Burgesses |
| The freedom of private business to operate competitively with little government regulation | Free enterprise |
| People that supported strong national government | Federalists |
| An idea towards society in the late 1700s based on the belief that the good virtue and morality of the people was essential to sustain the republican form of government. | Republicanism |
| The first document that limited the power of the government | Magna Carta 1215 |
| The basis for the American Bill of Rights | The English Bill of Rights |
| The first American Constitution | Articles of Confederation |
| A policy of establishing the principles and procedures for the orderly expansion of the United States. | Northwest Ordinance |
| An agreement signed by Pilgrims to create fair laws for the good of the colony. First example of self government in the North America | Mayflower Compact |
| The Federalist papers were written to defend the constitution. Written by: | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison |
| Written by Lincoln to dedicate a cemetery for soldiers who died in the Battle of Gettysburg | Gettysburg Address |
| Created two houses in Congress - one based on population and one with equal representation | The Great Compromise |
| A statement written by woman's rights supporters that was modeled after the Declaration of Independence | The Declaration of Sentiments |
| Founded the Sons of Liberty and Committees of Correspondence. Loud mouth Boston patriot who complained taxing the colonies was unfair | Samuel Adams |
| Andrew Jackson's vice president and supporter of the South before and during the war | John C. Calhoun |
| Was a powerful Kentucky Congressman and Senator who proposed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay |
| Massachusetts Congressman and Senator who spoke for the North and preservation of the Union | Daniel Webster |
| President of the Confederacy | Jefferson Davis |
| General of the Northern army | Ulysses S. Grant, 1863 - 1865. He was the General of the Union Army's western campaign before. |
| General of the Southern army | Robert E. Lee, 1861 - 65 |
| member of the Virginia House of Burgesses "Give me liberty or give me death" | Patrick Henry |
| Father of the Constitution | James Madison |
| Former slave who became the best-know black abolitionist in the country | Frederick Douglas |
| An escaped slave who became a conductor on the Underground Railroad. | Harriet Tubman |
| Organized the Seneca Falls Convention and created the Women's Rights Movement in the US | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Known as the "Father of Education" | Horace Mann |
| An African American regiment during the Civil War that played a key role in the attach of Fort Wagner | The 54th Massachusetts Infantry |
| Court Case that set up judicial review | Marbury vs. Madison |
| Court decision counting slaves as property not people | Dred Scott vs. Sanford |
| Abraham Lincoln was elected in the year | 1860 |
| The capital of the Confederacy | Richmond, Virginia |
| First REAL battle of the Civil War | Battle of Bull Run - long and bloody |
| Bloodiest Civil War battle | Battle of Antietam, on September 17, 1862. North won |
| Emancipation Proclamation issued on | January 1, 1863 |
| This general was called to apply "Total War" to the South in 1864 | General William Tecumseh Sherman. Became known as "Sherman's march to the sea" |
| The Bank of the United States opened in the year | 1791 |
| Jay's Treaty was in the year | 1794 |
| Pickney's Treaty was with the country of: | Spain |
| Treaty which ended the war of 1812 | Treaty of Ghent |
| The boundaries of Florida are settled in this treaty | Adams-Onis Treaty |
| George Washington was president from the years: | 1789 - 1797 |
| The first political parties: Federalist Party led by * and Democratic-Republican Party led by * | Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson |
| the election of 1800 caused what amendment | the 12th amendment |
| The Embargo Act was in the year | 1807 |
| The Missouri Compromise and The Monroe Doctrine were both done by president: | Monroe |
| Meeting of colonial delegates in September 1774 | 1st Continental Congress |
| A rebellion of farmers due to their inability to pay taxes | Shays' Rebellion |
| Meeting of 55 Delegates in May of 1787, to try to improve the Articles of Confederation | Constitutional Convention |
| proposed 3 branches of government with a two house legislature | Virginia Plan |
| Proposed plan to keep only one legislature. | New Jersey Plan |
| The idea that political authority rests with people | NThe idea that political power rests with the people |
| The first state to ratify the constitution | Delaware |
| Large farms that grew only one kind of crop | plantation |
| The transfer of plants and animals from Europe to the Americas | Columbian Exchange |
| He introduced tobacco which saved Jamestown | John Rolfe |
| Religious group that left England to escape religious persecution | pilgrims |
| Thousands of Puritans flock to the New World between 1630 and 1640 | Great Migration |
| Kicked out of Massachusetts for claiming God spike directly to her | Anne Hutchinson |
| The 4 New England Colonies: | Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts (CHIMNE) |
| The 4 Middle Colonies: | New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware (JYPD) |
| The 5 Southern Colonies: | Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
| Spiritual revival that swept the colonies in the 1730's and 1740's | Great Awakening |
| The Age of Reason | Enlightenment |
| Ben Franklin's unsuccessful attempt to unite the colonies | Albany Plan of Union |
| War between French and English for control of North America - Ohio River Valley | French and Indian War |
| British tax on glass, paper, lead, and tea | Townshend Acts |
| Punishment for the Boston Tea Party | Coercive (Intolerable) Acts |
| Wrongful taking of power | Usurpations |
| Washington crosses this river on Christmas night, 1776, to surprise the Hessians | Delaware Rivers |
| governor of Spanish Louisiana, when Spain entered the war against Britain in 1779. | Bernardo de Galvez |
| American naval hero who famously said, "I have not yet begun to fight" | John Paul Jones |
| Became close friend of General Washington. Aided the Patriots with money and supplies. | Marquis de Lafayette |
| German who helped train the Patriots at Valley Forge | Friedrich von Steuben |
| First written plan of government/constitution in the colonies | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
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