Colonial America
This crop was the economic foundation of the Chesapeake colonies.
What is tobacco?
This 1773 protest involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This issue was the central cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
This industry leader created Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
What is Watergate?
This colony was founded primarily for religious freedom by Puritans.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
This document, written in 1776, declared independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This 1863 document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This president was known for trust-busting and the Square Deal.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This 1960s movement fought to end racial segregation and discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This labor system involved workers exchanging several years of service for passage to America.
What is indentured servitude?
This slogan expressed colonial opposition to British taxation policies.
What is “no taxation without representation”?
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This amendment established the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This event in 1676 showed tensions between frontier settlers and colonial elites.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This 1783 treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
These laws restricted the rights of freedmen after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
These journalists exposed corruption and social problems in the early 1900s.
Who are muckrakers?
This conflict (1950–1953) was the first major war of the Cold War.
What is the Korean War?
These laws formalized racial slavery and reduced the rights of Black people in the colonies.
What are slave codes?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced ideas about natural rights and government.
Who is John Locke?
This compromise led to the end of Reconstruction in 1877.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This book by Upton Sinclair exposed problems in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
This plan provided economic aid to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?