Early U.S. History
Post-Revolution
Early 19th Century
Late 19th Century
20th Century
100
This dude believed in the right to "life, liberty, and property"
Who is John Locke
100
America's first constitution
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
An anti-alcohol movement
What is the temperance movement?
100
The first state to secede prior to the Civil War
What is South Carolina?
100
The treaty that ended World War I
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
200
This movement emphasized science, education, and reason
What is the Enlightenment
200
The idea proposed by Edmund Randolph during the Constitutional Convention that led to our current House of Representatives
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
The 19th century idea that women should stay at home to clean, cook, and be virtuous
What is true womanhood?
200
The bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War
What is Antietam?
200
Which of Wilson's Fourteen Points calls for a "League of Nations"?
What is point number 14
300
A religious revival that occurred in the early to mid-18th century
What is the Great Awakening?
300
The amendment that protects your right not to self-incriminate (the right to remain silent)
What is the 5th amendment?
300
The names of both politicians accused of making the "corrupt bargain"
Who are Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams
300
The slogan used by James K. Polk during his presidential campaign regarding how the Oregon Territory would be split with the British
What is "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!"
300
The countries that made up the Axis Powers
What is Germany, Italy, and Japan?
400
A decree made by King George III after the French and Indian War to keep all colonists from moving west of the Appalachians
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
The branch of government that includes the courts of law
What is the Judicial Branch?
400
The president during the Nullification Crisis
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
The treaty that ended the U.S. - Mexican War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
400
A failed attempt at training 1400 Cubans to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
500
The treaty that ended the Revolutionary War
What is the Treaty of Paris?
500
DAILY DOUBLE: List THREE weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
No president, no national currency, no federal tax, no national military... etc.
500
The river Mexico thought was their border prior to the U.S. - Mexican War
What is the Nueces River?
500
What did the E.T.'s mother say when he got home?
"Where on earth have you been?!?"
500
The "attack" that led America to become militarily involved in Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident
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