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U.S. History Facts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jamestown | First permanent English settlement, was founded in 1607. |
| The Declaration of Independence was signed on ________, ____. | July 4, 1776. |
| The ____________ was written in 1787. | Constitution of the United States |
| President __________________ purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in ____. | Thomas Jefferson, 1803. |
| The Civil War was fought from ____ - ____. | 1861-1865. |
| The opening shots of the American Revolution were fired at ________________________, _______________ in April 1775. | Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts |
| Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the site where the _______________________ and the Constitution were written. | Declaration of Independence |
| The __________________ was the turning point of the American Revolution. | Battle of Saratoga |
| The British defeat at _________________ by George Washington’s troops signaled the end of the American Revolution. | Yorktown, Virginia |
| The first shots of the Civil War were fired at ____________, in South Carolina. | Fort Sumter |
| _____________ is an economic theory that a country’s strength is measured by the amount of gold it has, that a country should sell more than it buys and that the colonies exist for the benefit of the Mother Country. | Mercantilism |
| An abolitionist was a ____________. | person who wanted toend slavery in the United States. |
| A ________ is a tax on goods brought into a country. | tariff |
| A _____________________ is a tax placed on goods from another country to protect the home industry. | protective tariff |
| _____________________ is the belief that the United States should own all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. | Manifest Destiny |
| a campaign against the sale or drinking of alcohol. | The Temperance Movement |
| a system of government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them. | Representative Government |
| a nation in which voters choose representatives to govern them. | Republic |
| Name the Three Branches of Government | the Legislative Branch, the Judicial Branch, and the Executive branch. |
| What is Federalsim? | the sharing of power between the states and the national government. |
| ___________ is the idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal. | Nullification |
| Common Sense | a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convince colonists that it was time to become independent from Britain. |
| Abraham Lincoln issued the __________________ on January 1, 1863, setting all slaves in the Confederate states free. | Emancipation Proclamation |
| Robert E. Lee | general of the confederate army |
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