Which resources or commodities contributed most to the economic success of Jamestown colony?
What is tobacco?
100
The year in where 20% of the population was Africans and there was a lower percentage of indentured servants
What is 1775?
100
3rd President of the United States
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
100
The United States wanted to end the French harassment of American shipping, French representatives demand a bribe, but America refused and suspended trade with France, and led to the creation of the American navy.
What is the XYZ Affair?
200
The "middle passage" of the triangular trade involved transportation of
Slaves from Africa to the Caribbean islands
200
Trial against the author of an article in a New York newspaper that criticized a corrupt British governor. The author was charged with sedition and libel, but he was acquitted
What is the Zenger Case?
200
The U.S. purchased the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains from Napoleon for $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
200
President during Bay of Pigs, and Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
200
An attempt to settle the conflict between the US and England over commerce, slowly got rid of the British trading, but let them keep the fur, and upset the Americans because these were things the English said they would do in the Treaty of Paris and hadn't.
What is Jay's Treaty?
300
Which of the following colonies was founded as a refuge for Catholics?
What is Maryland?
300
Letter written to Great Britain in 1776 declaring independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
Sent on an expedition by Jefferson to gather information on the United States' new land and map a route to the Pacific.
Who were Lewis and Clark?
300
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production.
Who is Henry Ford?
300
A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.
What is the Cold War?
400
Credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia
Who is John Rolfe?
400
colonists began to throw rocks and snowballs at the British troops in Boston. The soldiers fired, leaving five colonists dead.
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
A secret party which developed from the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner. They posed for rigid restrictions on immigration and naturalization and for laws authorizing deportation of aliens.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
400
An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, which was sponsored by the United States. Its purpose was to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
What is Bay of Pigs?
400
Closed the port of Noston to all trade until citizens paid for the lost tea and allowed royal officials accused of crimes in Massachusetts to be tried elsewhere.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
500
A majority of the early English migrants to the Chesapeake Bay area were
What are indentured servants?
500
This was a meeting of delegations from many of the colonies and was formed to protest the newly passed Stamp Act in 1765.
What was the Stamp Act Congress?
500
A factory order that managed the girls in a strict manner. They would work six days a week, forbidden to form a union, and could not share complaints
What is the Lowell System?
500
Committee formed in the House of Representatives in the 1930s to investigate radical groups in the United States.
What is HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?
500
Peace settlement that ended the revolutionary war. The United States received all the lands east of the Mississippi river, north of Florida, and south of the Great Lakes