Colonial Foundations
This was the first permanent English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
The first battle of the American Revolution took place on this day.
What is April 19, 1775.
This invention by Eli Whitney massively increase cotton production.
What is the cotton gin?
The Civil War began when Confederates fired on this South Carolina fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
This amendment abolished slavery, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Indigenous peoples reach the Americas by crossing this land mass, connecting Siberia and Alaska.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
He warned the colonists of the British advance on Massachusetts.
Who is Paul Revere?
This 1803 land acquisition doubled the size of the United States?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1860 event triggered the Civil War.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln.
This is a right given to people born in the United States under the 14th Amendment.
What is citizenship?
This 1692 event in Massachusetts saw mostly women accused due to social, gender, and class tensions.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
He became the first killed during the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This act, enforced by Andrew Jackson, forced Native Americans to move to "Indian Territory".
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This battle was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This amendment granted Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The year ____, the first arrival of enslaved Africans in Virginia.
What is 1619?
The 1777 Patriot victory convinced France to join in as an ally.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
They were explorers sent by Jefferson to map the newly purchased western territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This 1863 order declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territories free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This agreement ended the Reconstruction era and removed federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This 1675 conflict between New England colonies. The Native American is one of the bloodiest in U.S. history.
What is King Philips War?
This 1781 battle forced the British to surrender, ending the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that Black Americans were not citizens of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This was the major Southern cash crop and leading U.S. export before the Civil War.
What is cotton?
This system replaced slavery on many plantations following the Civil War.
What is the sharecropping?