Colonial America
This colony, founded in 1607, was the first permanent English settlement.
What is Jamestown?
The war for independence officially began with this 1775 battle.
What is Lexington and Concord?
The U.S. Constitution was written in this year.
What is 1787?
The Civil War began with this 1861 attack.
What is Fort Sumter?
This war was fought from 1914–1918.
What is World War I?
This document, signed in 1620, set up self-government in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 1776 document declared independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This group of the Constitution has 10 amendments protecting freedoms.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The economic crisis beginning in 1929.
What is the Great Depression
The system where raw materials were sent to England and finished goods returned.
What is mercantilism
The Colonists dumped tea into the harbor in protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The president is in charge of this branch of government.
What is the Executive Branch?
This battle is considered a turning point in the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
FDR’s set of programs to combat the Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This religious group came to America seeking religious freedom in 1620
Who are the Pilgrims?
This 1777 victory convinced France to support the colonies.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is the legislative branch?
These laws in the South restricted African American freedoms.
What are Black Codes?
This event in 1941 triggered the United States involvement in WWII.
What is the Pearl Harbor attack?
This 1783 treaty officially ended the war.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This 1783 treaty officially ended the war.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This principle divides power among the government branches.
What is separation of powers?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ended school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?