Colonial America
Established in 1607, it was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
In 1947, he broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This 1773 protest involved the Sons of Liberty dumping 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
He was the only U.S. President to be elected to four terms in office.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This 1863 battle is considered the turning point of the war and the site of Lincoln's most famous speech.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This 1620 document was the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the USA.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 1972 federal law prohibited gender discrimination in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
What is Title IX?
He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
He was the President during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the start of the Space Race.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
He was the lead General of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This 1692 series of hearings and prosecutions in Massachusetts resulted in the execution of 20 people.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
Known as "The Greatest," this boxer famously refused to be inducted into the armed forces during the Vietnam War.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This 1781 battle was the final major land battle of the war, leading to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This President’s "Great Society" program aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Issued by Lincoln in 1863, this executive order declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.
"What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This economic policy held that colonies existed to enrich the mother country, primarily through a favorable balance of trade.
What is Mercantilism?
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, this American track and field athlete won four gold medals, defying Hitler’s "Aryan supremacy" myth.
Who is Jesse Owens?
This 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should seek independence from Great Britain.
What is "Common Sense"?
He is the only President to have resigned from office.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This 1862 battle remains the bloodiest single day in American military history.
What is the Battle of Antietam
He was the primary theologian of the First Great Awakening, famous for his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Who was Johnathan Edwards?
In 1973, this female tennis star defeated Bobby Riggs in the highly publicized "Battle of the Sexes" match.
Who is Billie Jean King?
This Prussian military officer is credited with transforming the Continental Army into a professional fighting force at Valley Forge.
Who is Baron von Steuben?
Before becoming the 7th President, he earned the nickname "Old Hickory" during the War of 1812.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This Union General led the "March to the Sea," using "total war" tactics to break the South's will to fight.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?