Revolution & Constitution
Industrial America
Colonial America
Civil War Era
Early Republic
100

Baron von Steuben and Marquis de Lafayette helped train troops at this crucial winter encampment

What is Valley Forge?

100

This oil tycoon created the Standard Oil monopoly

What is John D. Rockefeller?

100

The economic system where colonies existed to benefit the mother country

What is mercantilism?

100

This first major battle of the Civil War began at Fort Sumter in South Carolina

What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?

100

This 1803 land deal with France doubled the size of the United States

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

200

This document, written by Thomas Jefferson, formally declared independence from Britain

What is the Declaration of Independence?

200

This immigrant processing center opened in New York Harbor in 1892

What is Ellis Island?

200

This Virginia settlement became the first permanent English colony in America

What is Jamestown?

200

This 1863 document freed slaves in Confederate states

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

200

This 1823 foreign policy statement warned European powers against further colonization in the Americas

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

300

This rebellion in Massachusetts highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

What is Shays' Rebellion?

300

This 1896 Supreme Court case legalized "separate but equal" segregation

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

300

These self-governing documents developed in Connecticut were considered America's first written constitution

What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

300

These post-Civil War laws restricted African American rights in the South

What are the Black Codes?

300

This Native American removal policy under Jackson led to the Trail of Tears

What is the Indian Removal Act?

400

This series of essays written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay supported ratification of the Constitution

What are the Federalist Papers?

400

These reform-minded journalists were known for exposing corruption and social problems

Who are the muckrakers

400

This 1675-1676 conflict between colonists and Native Americans in New England devastated both sides

What was King Philip's War?

400

This organization was established to help former slaves and poor whites after the Civil War

What is the Freedmen's Bureau?

400

This economic plan by Henry Clay included tariffs, banking, and internal improvements

What is the American System?

500

This 1787 compromise determined how states would be represented in Congress

What is the Great Compromise?

500

This 1918 statement outlined Wilson's vision for post-WWI peace

What are the Fourteen Points?

500

This 1676 uprising by Virginia colonists against Native Americans and colonial government showed growing tensions

What was Bacon's Rebellion?

500

This 1877 political deal effectively ended Reconstruction

What is the Compromise of 1877?

500

This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

What is the Missouri Compromise?

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