Colonial Times
Revolution
Constitution
Mid 1800s
Late 1800s
100

The first permanent English colony in America

Jamestown

100

The year the Declaration of Independence was signed 

1776

100

The number of branches of the U.S. government

3

100

Name one invention of the Market Revolution

Cotton gin, railroad, telegraph, steamboat, interchangeable parts 

100

This compromise ended Reconstruction

Compromise of 1877

200

A group of extreme Puritans that wanted to separate from the Church of England by moving to the Americas

Pilgrims

200

A document explaining why America should be independent from England that was easily accessible and understandable to the masses

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

200

The governing document of the United States prior to the constitution

Articles of Confederation

200

These two states had popular sovereignty implemented to solve the issue of slavery

Kansas and Nebraska

200

Ship that exploded to cause the Spanish American War

USS Maine

300

The lost English colony in the Carolinas that predates Jamestown

Roanoke

300

A group of radical Revolutionaries who protested British action including the Boston Tea Party

Sons of Liberty

300

This SCOTUS case ruled that Hamilton’s BOTUS was constitutional

McCulloch v. Maryland

300

Led the militaristic abolition raid on Harper’s Ferry

John Brown

300

Leader of “Atlanta Compromise“ movement for African Americans

Booker T Washington

400

Expelled for her religious beliefs and speaking out against the power of the church in New England

Anne Hutchinson

400

Placed heavy taxes on various imports to the American colonies

Townsend Act

400

This rebellion put down by George Washington displayed the new power of the federal government granted by the constitution

Whiskey Rebellion

400

The state admitted alongside Missouri in the Missouri Compromise

Maine

400

The war fought as a result of American gains in the pacific during the Spanish American War

Philippine War 

500

Need both:

The founder of Rhode Island

The preacher who delivered the “City Upon a Hill” speech in New England

Roger Williams and John Winthrop

500

The quartering act input by the British government was later addressed in this amendment of the United States Constitution

3rd Amendment

500

Name one author of the federalist papers other than Hamilton

John Jay or Madison

500

The treaty that ended the Civil War was signed at this courthouse

Appomattox Courthouse

500

Need both: 

Author of White Man’s Burden

President during Spanish American War often associated with imperialism 

Rudyard Kipling and William McKinley

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