US History Key Facts Pt 2

President ________ purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• James Adams

The Constitution of the United States was written in _______.

• 1776

• 1607

• 1812

• 1787

The British defeat at _____ by George Washington's troops signaled the end of the American Revolution.

• Vicksburg, Mississippi

• Yorktown, Virginia

• Jamestown, Virginia

• Boston, Massachusetts

A _______ is a tax placed on goods from another country to protect the home industry.

• protective tariff

• embargo

• rebate

• lottery

The first shots of the American Revolution were fired at ____ in _______.

• Lexington, Massachusetts: April 1775

• Boston, Massachusetts: 1863

• Yorktown, Virginia: July 4, 1775

• Appomattox, Virginia: 1787

______ was the site of the first battle of the American Revolution.

• Boston, Massachusetts

• Concord, Massachusetts

• Jamestown, Virginia

• Vicksburg, Mississippi

_______ is the belief that the United States should own all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

• Free Enterprise

• Federalism

• Manifest Destiny

• Antifederalists

______ is a small town in Virginia where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War

• Gettysburg

• Fort Sumter

• Vicksburg, Mississippi

• Appomattox Courthouse

The _____ was the turning point in the Civil war for the North. Confederate troops were forced to retreat and never invaded the North again.

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Siege of Boston

_______ 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.

• Temperance

• Mercantilism

• Free Enterprise

• Federalism