Colonial America & American Revolution
The first permanent English colony in the New World was founded in 1609. What was its name?
What is Virginia?
Who was the first President of the United States?
Who is George Washington?
The most famous inventor of the early nineteenth century, he invented the Cotton Gin and Interchangeable Parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Arguably the most influential novel of the 19th Century, it turned many people outside the South against slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This famous mid-to-late nineteenth century writer gave the Gilded Age its name. It was not meant as a compliment.
Who is Mark Twain? (Samuel Clemens)
This Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
What is the name of the famous foreign policy position taken by the United States towards the newly independent republics of Latin America in 1823?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
He helped found the Whig Party to oppose President Andrew Jackson, and ran for president three times without ever succeeding.
Who is Henry Clay?
He was the first, and only, President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
He was both the Democratic and Populist Party presidential candidate in the 1896 election. He gave the famous "Cross of Gold" speech that year, and lost the election to Republican William McKinley.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
This colony was founded by Quakers, and became one of the largest and most important of the 13 Colonies.
What is Pennsylvania?
What is the name of the laws passed by Congress under President John Adams to suppress the vote of Democratic-Republicans in the 1800 presidential election?
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Who is known as the "Father of American Public Education?"
Who is Horace Mann?
It was Henry Clay's last great compromise; it made California a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
This law passed by Congress in 1862 gave 160 free acres to anyone willing to move West. To claim they land, they had to live there for 5 years and build a road and house on it. What was the Congressional law called?
What is the Homestead Act?
This New England lay preacher challenged Puritan theology, was accused of witchcraft, and evicted from Massachusetts. She moved to Rhode Island.
Who is Ann Hutchinson?
What is the name of the meeting of New England delegates during the War of 1812 in which they considered and rejected secession from the Union?
What is the Hartford Convention?
This famous Transcendentalist writer lived in the wilderness in New England, and refused to pay taxes to protest the Mexican War. His writings inspired later reformers such as Gandhi and MLK, Jr.
What are the 3 Constitutional Amendments passed during Reconstruction, and are known as the Reconstruction Amendments?
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Helen Hunt Jackson wrote a book describing the US government's mistreatment of Native Americans in the 19th Century. It became a bestseller. What is the title of the book?
What is A Century of Dishonor?
It was the first large-scale slave rebellion in the British Colonies. It started in South Carolina, and ended in Florida.
What is the Stono Uprising?
What is the name of the taxpayer rebellion in Massachusetts that led to the end of the Articles of Confederation, and the writing of the US Constitution?
What is Shay's Rebellion?
He is known as the "Father of the Factory System" in the USA. He took many factory plans from England and brought them to the United States.
What was the name of the bill proposed by Radical Republicans in Congress that treated the conquered South more harshly than President Lincoln's plan, and was vetoed by him?
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act?