The Vietnam War
The country that controlled Vietnam prior to US involvement
What is France?
The name of the first permanent settlement in the British colonial Americas
What is Jamestown
Passed by Parliament in 1765, this law required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials like newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this South Carolina fort in April 1861.
What is Fort Sumter?
He was the 16th president of the United States and led the country during the Civil War.
who was Abraham Lincoln?
A book written by Tim O'Brien and read by students over the summer
What is The Things They Carried
This is the crop that was most profitable in Virginia and caused a lot of British to come to the Americas to try to strike it rick
What is Tobacco ?
Before becoming the first President of the United States, he gained fame as the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Who is George Washington?
Issued in 1863, this executive order by President Lincoln declared all slaves in Confederate-held territory to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He was the commanding general of the Union Army who later became the 18th president of the United States.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
They were the guerrilla forces who fought against the Americans and South Vietnamese
Who are the Viet Cong
This word's definition is an economic system where a country aims to increase its wealth and power by selling more goods to other countries than it buys from them.
What is Mercanitlism
This 1774 meeting in Philadelphia brought together colonial delegates to organize resistance against the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a failed raid on a federal arsenal at this location, hoping to start a slave uprising.
What is Harper's Ferry?
He served as the president of the Confederate States during the Civil War.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Name of a village where a horrendous massacre took place where Americans murdered Vietnamese Civilians
What is My Lai?
This 1676 uprising in Virginia was led by frontier settlers who were frustrated with Governor Berkeley’s refusal to protect them from Native American attacks
What is Bacon's Rebellion
This 1781 battle marked the last major military engagement of the American Revolution, where British General Cornwallis surrendered to American and French forces.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision declared that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress couldn’t ban slavery in the territories.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This South Carolina senator was a strong defender of slavery and states’ rights in the years leading up to the Civil War.
Who was John C. Calhoun?
This was an attempt by the North Vietnamese to overwhelm the Americans, with coordinated attacks in 100 places. It failed but did cause panic among the US
What is the Tet Offensive
This term describes the British policy of loosely enforcing colonial laws, which allowed the American colonies to develop a tradition of self-government in the early 1700s.
What is Salutary Neglect
In 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists in Boston, killing five and fueling anti-British sentiment in the colonies.
What was the Boston Massacre?
This violent conflict in the Kansas Territory was a result of the debate over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
He was the leading general of the Confederate Army, known for his military leadership in battles like Antietam and Gettysburg.
Who was Robert E. Lee?