Let’s go through each question one by one and fill in the correct answers based on U.S. history facts.
1. The slave who sued for his freedom was
Dred Scott. He took his case to the Supreme Court, which ruled against him in 1857.
2. The war fought between the North and South from 1861–1865 is called the
Civil War.
3. The first permanent English settlement in 1607 was
Jamestown, Virginia.
4. After the Civil War, rebuilding the South was called
Reconstruction.
5. In 1803, the U.S. bought a huge piece of land from France — this was the
Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the country.
6. Eli Whitney invented the
cotton gin (short for “cotton engine”) in 1793. It made cleaning cotton much faster.
7. The battles that started the American Revolution were
Lexington and
Concord in Massachusetts in April 1775.
8. The turning point of the American Revolution was the
Battle of Saratoga in 1777. After this win, France decided to help the Americans.
9. The British surrendered at the
Battle of Yorktown in 1781 to end the Revolutionary War.
10. The first shots of the Civil War were fired at
Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, in April 1861.
11. The turning point of the Civil War was the
Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania in July 1863.
12. The Confederate Army surrendered at
Appomattox Court House in Virginia in April 1865.
13. The United States
Constitution was written in 1787. It’s the main law of the country.
14. The word that means “the right to vote” is
suffrage. (Sometimes you’ll hear “women’s suffrage” meaning women’s right to vote.)
15. Someone who wants to end slavery is called an
abolitionist. Famous ones include Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman.
16. The document signed by the English king in 1215 was the
Magna Carta. It limited the king’s power and is seen as an early step toward democracy.
Now let’s write all the final answers clearly:
Final Answer:
1. Dred Scott
2. Civil War
3. Jamestown
4. Reconstruction
5. Louisiana Purchase
6. cotton gin
7. Lexington, Concord
8. Saratoga
9. Yorktown
10. Fort Sumter
11. Gettysburg
12. Appomattox
13. Constitution
14. suffrage
15. abolitionist
16. Magna Carta
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