Colonial/Revolution
Westward Expansion
Civil War
Reconstruction
Gilded Age
100
The break-up document by Thomas Jefferson
What is the Declaration of Independence
100
Land was purchased from the French in a smart business deal.
What is the Louisiana Purchase
100
Decision of the Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent
What is the Dred Scott decision
100
Restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.
What are Black Codes
100
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes...without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
What is the 16th amendment
200
British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, and angering an entire colony.
What is the Boston Massacre
200
Federal legislation that balanced the desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise
200
The withdrawal of 11 slave states from the Union during 1860–61 following the election of Abraham Lincoln as president.
What is the Southern States' Secede
200
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
What is the 13th Amendment
200
Some 19th-century industrialists who include people such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, Leland Stanford and John D. Rockefeller.
Who were the Captains of Industry and Robber Barons
300
An agreement among the 13 states, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government.
What are the Articles of Confederation
300
Fought by the US and its allies against the British and its allies in North America - Often called the 2nd Revolutionary War.
What is the War of 1812
300
After this event, 28,000 Confederate soldiers laid down their weapons and returned home.
What is General Lee's Surrender at Appomattox
300
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
What is the 14th amendment
300
A coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani, which took place on January 17, 1893.
What is the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
400
Rebellion of the tea tax
What is the Boston Tea Party
400
When a precious metal found at Sutter's Mill brought approximately 300,000 people to California in 1849
What is the California Gold Rush
400
Abraham Lincoln delivered this during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery.
What is the Gettysburg Address
400
Murderous attack on the 16th president of the United States, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865.
What is the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
400
Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v Ferguson
500
The supreme law of the United States.
What is the U.S. Constitution
500
It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas
500
Required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
500
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th amendment
500
What is the White Man's Burden