Early Colonization & Revolution
What colonists were protesting during the Boston Tea Party.
What is taxation without representation? (The Tea Act imposed by the British Parliament)
This trail, stretching from Missouri to Oregon, was used by pioneers heading west
The Oregon Trail
Nicknamed "Moses", this person was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This president served the longest term in office
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The 1962 confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union during which both sides deployed nuclear missiles
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The first permanent English settlement in America, established in 1607
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
The leaders of the first expedition to the Pacific Coast
Who are Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea?
What is the 13th Amendment?
The year in which American women gained the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment
The mid-20th century fear of communism inside the U.S. that led to loyalty tests and blacklists
What is McCarthyism or the Red Scare?
The oldest institute of higher learning (university) in the US
What is Harvard? (in Cambridge, Massachusetts)
This 1803 land purchase from France doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The 31st state admitted to the Union, on September 9, 1850 after the discovery of gold in 1849
What is California?
The period after the Great Migration marked by a surge of creative expression within the Black community of New York beginning in the 1920s
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
In 1955, this African American woman refused to give up her bus seat in protest of racially segregated buses, sparking the Montgomery Bus boycott
Who is Rosa Parks?
The first capital of the United States
What is New York City?
What is the Mexican-American War?
This Civil War battle between Lee and McClellan remains the bloodiest day in American history, with a combined tally of 22,727 dead, wounded, or missing
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The series of programs Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted during the Great Depression
The New Deal
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision ruled racial segregation of public schools unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The oldest European-founded city in America
What is St. Augustine, Florida? (Founded in 1656 by Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles of Spain)
The tragic forced migration of American Indian Tribes from Florida, Alabama, and Georgia to Oklahoma
What is the Trail of Tears?
In 1864, the US Army attacked a camp of mainly women, children, and elders on Big Sandy Creek in southeastern Colorado, brutally murdering more than 230 peaceful people.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
The first phase of the Allied invasion liberation of France during WWII, beginning in Normandy on June 6
What is D-Day?
This movement, led by Cesar Chavez, fought for the rights of farmworkers
What is the United Farm Workers movement?