The first permanent colony at Jamestown was founded by what joint-stock company?
What is the Virginia Company
100
This piece of legislation established the procedures for the orderly expansion of the United States.
What is the Northwest Ordinance (1787)
100
This piece of legislation led to increased tension between slave states and free states and is commonly thought to be one of the causes of the Civil War.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
100
Gilded Age journalists who attempted to expose industry practices were known as
What is muckrakers
100
The National Origins Act and National Quota Act were passed in response to
What is the Red Scare or fear of Communism
200
This important Revolutionary War battle motivated the French to give financial and military assistance to the American colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga
200
The Seneca Falls Convention and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are both associated with what 19th century American movement?
What is the women's suffrage movement
200
The Thirteenth Amendment
Abolished slavery in the United States
200
The movement of thousands of African Americans North to look for work post-Reconstruction is known as
What is the Great Migration
200
This New Deal agency built dams and provided electricity for many in the rural South.
What is Tennessee Valley Authority
300
Thomas Paine's pamphlet that argued the only rational option for the American colonies was to fight for independence.
What is Common Sense
300
Nat Turner's slave rebellion was a result of this...
What is the Missouri Compromise
300
This Reconstruction agency built schools and provided assistance to former slaves.
What is the Freedman's Bureau
300
The sinking of the USS Maine and "yellow" journalism were sparks to which event?
What is the Spanish-American War
300
Housing projects built in urban areas during the Great Depression were nicknamed:
What is Hoovervilles
400
This was the first elected representative body in the American colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses
400
Which of the following most characterized Jacksonian Democracy:
Abolition of slavery
Strengthening of states rights
Expansion of the powers of the president
Elimination of the spoils system
What is the strengthening of states rights
400
Whose Reconstruction plans wanted to see the South punished for the Civil War? (Andrew Johnson's or Radical Republicans)
Who are the Radical Republicans
400
Woodrow Wilson's plan for an international peace keeping organization.
What is the League of Nations
400
Before the New Deal, the government response to the Great Depression was what?
What is to allow the economy to adjust itself
500
Which group, prior to the Revolution, was responsible for maintaining close political cooperation between the American colonies?
What is the Committees of Correspondence
500
The opening of this waterway in 1825 opened up the interior of the United States to expand commerce.
What is the Erie Canal
500
Which document freed slaves, but only in the Southern United States?
What is the Emancipation Proclomation
500
This event showed that the Federal government was more concerned with the needs and concerns of industry executives rather than union members.
What is the Pullman Strike of 1894
500
The period of musical, artistic, and literary achievement among African Americans in New York during the 1920's is know as