Expansion and Migration
(1.1)This ancient land bridge allowed the first humans to migrate to the Americas around 40,000 BCE.
What is Beringia?
(2.1): George Washington’s attack on French soldiers at this 1754 skirmish is often credited as the spark that began the French and Indian War.
What is Jumonville Glen?
(1.4): This was the first representative assembly in the British colonies, established in Virginia in 1619.
What is the House of Burgesses?
(1.2): This Spanish priest became a famous advocate for Native American rights, pleading with the monarchy to end the oppressive Encomienda system.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
when did DE United States history become a subject people started learning in school
1800s
(2.1): To discourage further conflict with Native Americans after Pontiac's Rebellion, Britain passed this 1763 law forbidding colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
(4.1): To avoid war with Britain and France, Thomas Jefferson passed this 1807 act which prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports, causing the U.S. economy to collapse.
What is the Embargo Act?
(3.2): This 30-year-old former aide to George Washington was a leading "Federalist" who advocated for a strong, centralized national government at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
(4.3): Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1848, this was the first national convention dedicated specifically to the discussion of women's rights.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
A common broke college student meal made in 3 minutes with boiling water.
What is Ramen?
(3.1): One of the few successes of the Articles of Confederation, this 1787 ordinance created the formal process for how a territory could become a new state.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
(5.1): This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War, with the U.S. acquiring 50% of Mexico's land in exchange for $15 million.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
(6.1): During the Civil War, President Lincoln suspended this legal right, which allows prisoners to challenge their detention, in order to arrest secessionists in Maryland.
What is Habeas Corpus?
(6.1): This 1863 executive order by Abraham Lincoln declared that all enslaved people in states currently in "open rebellion" were officially free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This 1994 film features Tom Hanks sitting on a bench explaining that "life is like a box of chocolates.
What is Forrest Gump?
(4.5): This 1838 forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia to Oklahoma resulted in the deaths of thousands due to cold, hunger, and disease.
What is the Trail of Tears
(8.1): The mysterious explosion of this warship in Havana harbor in 1898 served as the primary catalyst for the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
(9.1): This 1920s President championed "Laissez-Faire" economics with the philosophy that "The business of America is business."
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
(6.2): This 1896 Supreme Court decision famously legalized segregation across the United States under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This social media app was originally called "TheFacebook" and was exclusive to Ivy League students.
What is Facebook?
(5.1): This mid-1800s belief argued that it was the "God-given right" and destiny of the United States to expand its territory to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
(8.2): Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy, which relied on the threat of naval power to achieve global goals, was known by this four-word phrase.
What is "Big Stick" Diplomacy?
(7.4): To combat the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt launched this massive series of government programs focused on "Relief, Recovery, and Reform."
What is the New Deal?
(9.1): This 1920s cultural movement in New York City saw a "rebirth" of African American art, music, and literature following the Great Migration.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
John Quincy Adams kept his sharp-toothed reptile in a White House bathtub.
What is an alligator?