Early America & The Revolution
It was the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in Virginia in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
Sold by France for $15 million in 1803, this massive land deal effectively doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A date which will live in infamy: The Japanese military launched a surprise attack on this U.S. naval base on December 7, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Known as "Honest Abe", he steered the country through the Civil War before being assassinated in 1865.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This 1773 protest in Massachusetts involved colonists dumping 342 chests of tea into the harbor to protest British taxes.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This 19th-century belief held that the United States was divinely destined to expand across the North American continent from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny
Ratified in 1920, this constitutional amendment granted American women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Before becoming a legendary general and the President of the United States, he worked from ages 17 to 20 as a professional land surveyor.
Who was George Washington?
Signed in 1620, this document established a self-governing colony among the Pilgrims before they landed at Plymouth Rock.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Ratified in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War, this constitutional amendment officially abolished slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This series of domestic programs and reforms was launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Along with our current POTUS, he served two non-consecutive terms, making him both the 22nd and 24th president.
Who was Grover Cleveland?
During the Revolutionary War, this valley served as the 1777–1778 winter headquarters for George Washington's continental forces.
What is Valley Forge?
He was the first and only President of the Confederate States of America
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Spurred by a police raid in New York City in June 1969, these protests became a foundational catalyst for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
What are the Stonewall Riots?
He served as Vice President under Dwight D. Eisenhower before later winning the presidency himself in 1968.
Who was Richard Nixon?
This 1795 treaty between Great Britain and the U.S. was highly unpopular because it forced Americans to pay off pre-Revolutionary debts to British merchants.
What is Jay's Treaty?
This landmark 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans—enslaved or free—were not citizens and could not sue in federal court.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This federal committee, abbreviated as HUAC, was established in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive communist activities.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
He was the first president to take the oath of office in Washington, D.C., rather than New York or Philadelphia.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?