Because the "New World" was discovered, many countries, specifically Spain and Portugal, wanted in on the action.

Arguing and fighting followed and finally the Pope stepped in and drew a "Line of Demarcation" around the Earth in 1493 that was changed 800 miles to east in 1494.

Did Portugal have claim to the west or the east of that line?

Which phrase best completes the diagram?

The name

"America" was given in honor of this man who is

believed to have actually sailed up the east coast of the present day United States in 1499.

What is his name?

Because of the discovery of the New World, a new way of life entered the Americas that wou Id last for yea rs - slavery.

Sugar, cotton, rum and tobacco were shipped to Europe. Europe shipped metals, guns, alcohol, and horses to Africa.

From Africa, slaves were shipped to the Americas.

What was this three-phase route known as?

For soon-to-be slaves, the journey from Africa to the Americas was inhumane. Millions of slaves died from starvation, disease, drowning by being thrown overboard or by jumping into the ocean to end their lives before they had to endure any more.

What was this part of the journey known as?

Many slaves were brutally whipped with a device that was either made with rope or leather straps that had knots tied in the end.

What was this device known as?

Here we have an image of the very first permanent

English colony in America.

What was the name of this colony?

Although historically inaccurate, this painting depicts a famous scene which, according to the captain about to have his head smashed in by the Powhatan leader, is how his life was saved thus saving his colony too.

Who was this famous captain? Who was the famous girl who saved him?

From 1754-1763 the 13 colonies fought with England against France for land claims to the west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Even though England won, the king of England still would not allow the colonists to settle west of the Proclamation Line of 1763 for fear of Indian attacks.

What was this war known as?

In 1765 England began passing a series of laws in the colonies that increased tensions.

The Sugar Act was the first tax England imposed on the states. This tax was next-it was a tax on all papers passed in the colonies that required a emblem affixed to them to prove a tax had been paid (i.e. marriage documents, diplomas, business papers, etc.).

What was this tax called?

There are two different versions of this event.

Version 1- an angry mob attacking British soldiers and the soldiers firing in self-defense.

Version 2 - British soldiers firing upon a group of innocent citizens of Boston (while a cute dog looks on).

What was this event from March 5, 1770?

More taxes for the colonist came in 1773 when the King now imposed a tax on tea.

Members of the Sons of Liberty boarded three boats in Boston Harbor

(the Dartmouth, The Eleanor, and The Beaver) and dumped over a million dollars worth of the King's tea in Boston Harbor.

What was this event called?

The picture you see here represents "The Shot Heard Round the World.11 No one is

100% sure who fired the first shot, but regardless, this shot started the "Battles of _________ and ________"

Our Founding Fathers knew that by signing this Declaration of Independence they were committing treason, which was punishable by hanging.

The Declaration explained how the King had mistreated the colonists. It is the best known "break-up letter" of all time and was written by Thomas Jefferson.

What is the month, day, and year on the Declaration of Independence?

These acts contributed to the start of the Revolutionary War by:

During the American Revolution there were two sides to the war. The Americans, and those who supported the revolution were known as

A. ______________________

The British, and those who supported England and King George, were known as

B. ______________________

A famous time during the Revolutionary War was when George Washington had his troops conduct a sneak attack on German soldiers on the night of December 24th, 1776.

This image is known as

"Washington Crossing the ______________"

This is the site in Pennsylvania that George Washington's soldiers stayed during the winter of 1776 when they were almost out of supplies, lacked adequate clothing, and frostbite and smallpox were setting in.

What was the name of this place?

This person was planning on selling strategic plans of the U.S. to the British. He was a soldier for America, but then became known as one of the biggest traitors in U.S. history.

Who is he?

Here we have one of the most famous images in American history- the British surrender after the Battle of: ______________

The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War and the United States now officially extended from the east coast along the Atlantic Ocean all the way to what physical feature?

Before we had the U.S. Constitution we had this set of rules to help structure our government.

The problem was it was very weak and gave most of the power to the states, such as collecting taxes, thus leaving the federal government without a solid source of revenue.

What was this first set of rules known as?

Southern states were only willing to join the new nation if their slaves could be counted as part of the population (thus getting more members in Congress).

Northern states wouldn't allow this, but needed them to join so they said that slaves could be counted as what fraction of a person?

Even though we had a Constitution Americans still wanted their rights written down.

What is the name given to our first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution?

Why did the Anti-Federalists demand that a bill of rights be added to the U.S. Constitution? 

When George Washington became president he surrounded himself with political advisors, which were the Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney General.

What was the name dedicated to this group of advisors?

This image shows George Washington riding out to a field near Fort Cumberland, Maryland to suppress a rebellion by farmers who refused to pay a tax on their grain that they converted to a liquid alcoholic form.

The suppression of th is rebellion showed that the new federal government could flex it's muscles to uphold laws.

What was the name of this rebellion?

The issue of taxes was a problem for our early government. That became very clear when the farmers who couldn't afford their taxes were threatened with having their land taken away. The farmers rebelled, led by a man named Daniel Shay, but the government quickly ended this scuffle.

What was this event known as?

When John Adams became president, France was attacking American ships in an attempt to interfere with their trade with England.

John Adams sent three diplomats to France to meet with the French Foreign Minister, but were met with resistance when they were told by three secret agents that told the diplomats they would need to pay a $50,000 just to meet with the French Foreign Minister and give France a loan for $250,000.

What was this event known as?

When Thomas Jefferson became president he purchased land from France which doubled the size of the United States.

What was the name of this new land?

In 1804 President Thomas Jefferson authorized Merriweather Lewis and William Clark to explore the Northwest Territory.

Who was their Native American guide that helped them complete this journey?

One of the most famous duels in American history, The Hamilton-Burr Duel, happened because Secretary of Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, insulted Congressman Aaron Burr's fath e r-i n-1 aw.

Which man died in this duel?

In 1814, Francis Scott Key, and American lawyer, was aboard the HMS Tonnant negotiating the release of American prisoners when he saw Fort McHenry being bombarded.

At dawn, he saw the American flag flying over Fort McHenry and wrote a very famous poem called "Defense of Fort McHenry" that later became a song known by what name?

At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, disagreements arose between states with large populations and those with small populations. How was this conflict resolved?

In the early 1800's, many women began a social movement to try and get people to stop drinking alcohol or to educate them on the effects of alcohol on the family.

What was this movement known as?

Eli Whitney created this machine way back in 1794 that removed the seeds from cotton mechanically, thus increasing the productivity of a slave by SO times.

What was the name of this machine?

When Andrew Jackson became president one of the major decisions he made was the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

This forced Native Americans off of their land, and the over 4,000 Cherokee Indians from Georgia died on the journey to Indian Territory.

What was this journey known as?

In 1848 thousands of people rushed to California in the hopes of striking it rich because gold was found at Sutter's Mill.

What was this event known as?

The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad was this lady (pictured left) who led over 300 slaves to freedom.

She said she could have saved more if only she could have convinced them that they were slaves.

Who is she?

Once a slave himself, this man escaped to freedom and then spent the rest of his life as an abolitionist trying to end slavery.

What was his name?

In 1850 there were 15 free states and 15 slave states. One more state was added to the country because of all the people that moved there in 1849 (hint).

What was the next state of the United States that ended up being a free state, thus tipping the balance of the USA to 16 free states to 15 slave states?

Which state was the first state to secede from the United States on December 20, 1860?

What were the two sides of the Civil War called?

What was the name of this famous Union General from the North (Letter A)?

What was the name of this famous Confederate General from the South (Letter B)?

Who was the President of the United States during the span of the Civil War?

At the beginning of the Civil War, Genera Winfield Scott came up with a plan to "choke" the South by surrounding it and not allowing them to import or export any goods. This would cause their economy to cripple and force them to surrender.

What was the name of this plan?

What were the states of Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware known as during the Civil War?

September 17, 1862 was the bloodiest day in American History at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where Union and Confederate forces clashed, which became known as the Battle of Antietam.

How many Union/Confederate soldiers died at that battle?

A. 25,000

B. 250,000

C. 2,500,000

On January 1, 1863 President Lincoln put the Emancipation Proclamation into effect freeing the slaves (well, sort of).

This actually only applied to slaves in which type of state in the country?

At the Battle of Gettysburg, Genera I Robert E. Lee ordered General Pickett to have his men create a direct attack through the middle of the

Union lines. This was a deadly mistake as

Pickett lost over 13,000 soldiers from this maneuver.

What was this attack known as?

On July 18, 1863 the first all African-American regiment that led the way into battle did so at Fort Wagner, South Carolina.

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who was white, gained the respect of his men by refusing his pay until the African­American soldiers were paid the same as the white soldiers.

What was this famous regiment known as?

On November 19, 1863 President Lincoln gave a speech at the dedication of a cemetery for the deceased soldiers from the Civil War. His speech mentioned that our forefathers established this country on the idea that "all men are created equal" and that "government of the people, by the people, and for the people should not perish from th is earth."

What was this famous speech called?

In 1864, after taking Atlanta, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman raged a path of complete and utter destruction 60 miles wide and 300 miles long through Georgia to the Atlantic Ocean. His troops attacked anything that supported the enemy. They tore up railroad lines, destroyed crops, and burned and looted towns in the way.

What was this path of destruction called?

Who was the famous actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on the night of April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theater in Washington DC?

After the Civi I War ended, the job of the U.S. government was to bring the

North and South back together again.

What was this time period known as?