First instance of direct democracy in the Americas
What is the Mayflower Compact?
100
War that gave experience to American generals and bankrupt the British.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
Belief that America is destined to span from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
Scientist who led the project to develop nuclear capabilities.
Who is Oppenheimer?
100
Group that conducted the attacks on September 11, 2001.
What is Al Qaeda?
200
Developed a milder blend of tobacco that became very popular.
Who is John Rolfe?
200
Colonists had to use official paper after this act was passed.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
Republican elected to stop the expansion of slavery in the United States
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
Blamed bankers and munition makers for U.S. involvement in World War I
What is the Nye Report?
200
'American Dream' suburb
What is was Levittown?
300
A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
300
Passed as a retaliatory measure in order to punish the colonists into submission.
What are the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?
300
Abolished slavery in America
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
300
Economic programs with the goal of giving aid to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practices, and recovery of the economy during The Great Depression
What was the New Deal?
300
Original Leader of South Vietnam
Who is Diem?
400
The ships that "sailed the ocean blue in 1492".
What are the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maira?
400
French fort in Pittsburgh.
What is Ft. Duquesne?
400
Method of forced recruitment employed by Britain leading up to the War of 1812?
What is impressment?
400
Allowed America to an international police power.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
400
May 4th 1970, 4 students shot dead during anti war rally at this university.
What is Kent State?
500
The 3 main tribes in North America before Colombus.
Who are the Anasizi, Hopewell, and Adena?
500
British war with France that took Louisbourg.
What is King George's War?
500
An alleged scandal in which the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson after neither presidential candidate received enough electoral votes