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History Facts 1-30
American history facts 1_30
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the first pemanent settlement, founded in 1607 | Jamestown |
| The Declaraion of Independence was signed,when? | July 4th, 1776 |
| What docment was written in 1787? | The Constitution of The United States |
| Who bought the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803? | President Thomas Jefferson |
| When was the civil war fought? | 1861-1865 |
| Where were the first shots of the American Revoultion shot? and when? | Lexington, Mass. and April 1775 |
| What was the first real battle ofthe American Revolution, immediately following the shots at Lexington? | Concord, Massachusetts |
| What battle gave France a reason to enter the war against Britain? | Battle of Saratoga |
| The british defeat at, where?, signaled the en dof the American Revolution. | Yorktown, Virgina |
| The first shots of the civil was were fired where? | Fort Sumter, South Carolina |
| What was the turning point in the civil was for the north? | Battle of Gettysburg |
| What place captured effectively split the confederacy into 2? | Vicksburg, Mississippi |
| What is the small town in Virginia where Robert E Lee surrendered? | Appomattox Court House |
| Where was the bloodiest single day in the civil war? | Antietam, Maryland |
| What is the economic theory thar a countr's strength is measure by the wealth it has, that a country should sell more than it buys. | Mercantilism |
| What is the name for a person who want to end slavery? | Abolitionist |
| What is a tax brought on goods brougt into a country? | tariff |
| What is a tax places on goods from another to protects the home industry? | protective tariff |
| Whats is a strong sense of loyalty to a state or section instead of the whole country? | Sectionalism |
| What was a campiagn against the sale or drinking of achohol? | Temperance Movement |
| What is a system of gorvernment in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them? | Representative Goverment |
| What is a nation in which vpters choose represtatives to govern them? | Republic |
| What was the first representative assembly in the new world. | The House of Burgesses |
| What are the three brnaches of government? | Legislative, Judicial, Executive |
| What is a system set up by the Constitution in which each branch of the federal government has the power to check, or control, the actions of the other branches? | Checks and Balance |
| What is the freedom of private business to operate competitively for profit with minimal government regulaion? | Free Enterprise |
| An economic system based on private property an free enterprise? | Capitolism |
| What is the sharing power between the sates and the national government? | Federalism |
| What is a sytem in which each branch of government has its own powers? | Seperation of Powers |
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