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This first president set many precedents, including the two-term tradition.
Who is George Washington?
This 1776 event announced independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This invention by Eli Whitney revolutionized cotton processing.
What is the cotton gin?
This document established the structure of the U.S. government.
What is the Constitution?
This period saw a shift from agriculture to industry in the 1800s.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This is the capital of the United States.
What is Washington, D.C.?
He authored the Declaration of Independence and later became the 3rd president.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This war (1861–1865) determined whether the U.S. would remain united.
What is the Civil War?
This 19th-century transportation innovation connected the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This political party was founded by Andrew Jackson.
What is the Democratic Party?
This movement pushed for women’s voting rights, achieved in 1920.
What is the Women’s Suffrage Movement?
This document begins with “We the People.”
What is the Constitution?
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
This 1929 event triggered the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This invention by Alexander Graham Bell changed communication forever.
What is the telephone?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This period (1940s–1960s) expanded civil rights for African Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This state was the last to join the Union (1959).
What is Hawaii?
This 1962 event brought the U.S. and Soviet Union closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
He issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This 1941 attack brought the U.S. into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This WWII-era project developed the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This policy aimed to contain communism during the Cold War.
What is containment?
This era (1950s) saw economic growth and suburban expansion.
What is the Postwar Boom?
This river is the longest in the United States.
What is the Missouri River?
This Progressive president busted trusts and built the Panama Canal.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This Cold War conflict (1950–1953) involved North and South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
This Cold War-era program put the first Americans on the moon.
What is the Apollo Program?
This 1970s scandal led to President Nixon’s resignation.
What is Watergate?
This late 20th-century shift moved jobs from manufacturing to services.
What is deindustrialization?
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This influential abolitionist escaped slavery, became a leading orator, and published an autobiography in 1845.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This 1898 event marked a turning point toward American imperialism following the explosion of the USS Maine.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This late 20th-century technological development, originating from military research, revolutionized global communication and commerce.
What is the Internet?
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This long-term demographic and cultural shift saw millions of African Americans move from the rural South to urban areas in the North and West during the 20th century.
What is the Great Migration?
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?