Rebels With A Cause
This 1773 act of rebellion saw colonists dump British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This 1848 discovery at Sutter's Mill started a massive westward migration.
What is Gold?
This document, issued by Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam, freed slaves in Confederate-held territory.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Star founded this settlement house in Chicago to aid the urban poor and immigrant women.
What is Hull House?
What style of fighting was done on the front lines and prevalent throughout the war?
What is trench warfare?
In 1711, a bill was finally passed clearing the names of 22 people convicted during this 1692 town's witch trials.
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
This trail stretched from Missouri to Oregon and was used by early pioneers to emigrate West.
What is the Oregon Trail?
When Reconstruction ended, these laws were placed on black in the South, named after a minstrel show.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This law was passed in response to nativist fears of Chinese immigrants.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What form of military technology did the Germans have more than any other country?
What are U-boats (or Submarines)?
This first permanent English colony in America was established in 1607 and named after the King.
What is Jamestown?
He was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This 18th president was a major Union General during the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This was the method introduced in America by Andrew Carnegie for mass-producing affordable, high quality steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the US made up what group?
Who are the Allied Powers?
Patrick Henry famously said, "Give me liberty, or give me..." this.
What is death?
This first governing document of the new United States was adopted in 1777, before the Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This fort, located in South Carolina, was the site of the first shots of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This was the name of investigative journalists in the Progressive Era that exposed problems in society.
Who are muckrakers?
Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire made up what group?
Who are the Central Powers?
On November 21, 1620, 41 male passengers signed this governing document while anchored at a Massachusetts harbor.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This term described the 19th-century belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This man was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This violent labor incident in Chicago caused labor union membership to decrease in the late 19th century after a bomb was thrown during the protests.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
What is the name of the ship that the Germans sunk?
What is the Lusitania?