Pre-1700s
1700s: Revolution and Independence
1800s: Expansion, Conflict, and Change
1900s: Innovations and World Wars
Mischellaneous
100

This famous ship, carrying the Pilgrims, landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts

The Mayflower

100

This famous document starts with the words "We the people"

The Constitution

100

This country gifted the Statue of Libert to the United States

France

100

In this year, American women gained the right to vote

1920

100

Name the 4 presidents that were assassinated

Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, John F. Kennedy

200

This was the first English settlement in America

Jamestown Settlement

200

The Bill of Rights is made up of this many amendments

10

200

This nurse and humanitarian founded the American Red Cross

Clara Barton

200

In this year, the United States entered World War I

1917

200

This state was the first to be admitted to the Union

Delaware

300

These famous trials ended in the death of 25 women

The Salem Witch Trials

300

The true signing date of the Declaration of Independence

August 2, 1776

300

This group of 3 explorers navigated the first expedition to the Pacific Coast

Merriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea

300

These four presidents are depicted on Mount Rushmore

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

300

This famous abolitionist was the most photograped American of the 19th century

Frederick Douglass

400

This crop became the economic foundation of the Virginia Colony

Tobacco

400

This was the governing document of the United States before the Constitution

The Articles of Confederation

400

This amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States

13th Amendment

400

This was a series of programs enacted by Frankling D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression

The New Deal

400

These 4 key figures in the Industrial Revolution were either considered Captains of Industry or Robber Barons

Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan

500

During this period in the 1730s and the 1740s, colonists began embracing secular rationlism over religion

The Great Awakening

500

This treaty officially ended the American Revolution

The Treaty of Paris

500

A discovery at Sutter's Mill in 1848 led to this roughly 12-year long event

California Gold Rush

500

This landmark Supreme Court Case ruled racial segregation of public schools unconstitutional

Brown v. Board of Education

500

This Boston weekly newspaper was published by William Lloyd Garrison

The Liberator

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