I am a document
The country needed a government, and so John Dickinson wrote me, and the Second Continental Congress passed me. Too bad I sucked.
Articles of Confederation
When the Mexican American War started
1846
I was Elizabeth Cady Stanton's bestie and helped start the Seneca Falls Convention
Lucretia Mott
I (my name) am the colony that the Pilgrims founded in 1620
Plymouth Colony
I was named after Henry Clay's little brother (who was a staunch abolitionist), won a gold medal at 18, became one of the most famous athletes of all time, then joined the nation of Islam and changed my name, and went to prison for conscientiously objecting to the Vietnam War
Mohammed Ali
I am the law that forced Native Americans to break their historical lands into individual plots, thereby fostering assimilation.
Dawes Act (1887)
I am the year that Reconstruction ended when Hayes agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South in exchange for people not disputing my Presidential election victory.
1877
I wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin and helped inspire abolitionism.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I am a place in Virginia (now in West Virginia) where the national Armory was, and where John Brown attempted his famous raid.
Harper's Ferry
This native uprising was named after the chief who united tribes against the British colonists after the French were defeated. The British won but they didn't like all this fighting and so passed the Proclamation of 1763 afterwards
Pontiac's Rebellion
I was passed by Obama and am the latest extension of the entitlement programs that were started by FDR and continued through the Great Society
Affordable Care Act (2010)
1939
I gave a speech about the dangers of the military-industrial complex when I left office (for the record, farewell addresses are usually pretty legit)
Dwight Eisenhower
I am an island in the Pacific where the US Navy defeated the Akido Butai. This US victory was seen as the turning point in the Pacific Theatre.
Midway
I was one of George Washington's two favorite generals, brought canons 700 miles in winter from Ft. Ticonderoga to help defeat the British at Boston, and later became the country's first Secretary of War. My wife and myself were very large human beings.
Henry Knox
I am the Supreme Court Case that established Judicial Review (the right of the court to decide the Constitutionality of laws and actions)
Marbury vs. Madison (1803)
When the riots at the Democratic National Convention happened
1968
I am the person who invented air brakes for railroads, and I also produced a transformer to use alternating current (AC).
I. Am. George. Westinghouse.
I am a neighborhood in Los Angeles where Black Americans rioted in 1965 against poverty and racial discrimination
Watts
Name one Historically Black College
Howard, Morehouse, Tuskegee
I am the name of the book written by Thomas Hobbes that established the idea of the social contract. My title is a reference to a gigantic biblical beast. This was my name for the powers that I believed a benevolent monarch should assume in the name of the people.
The Leviathan (1651)
When William Jennings Bryan ran for President the first time, and gave his Cross of Gold speech at the Democratic National Convention
1896
I negotiated a Treaty with Spain in 1793 which gave the US rights to navigate the Mississippi and not get taxed when they shipped those goods out of New Orleans.
Charles Pinckney
We are the cities that the Erie Canal ran between. One of us is on Lake Erie, and the other is on the Hudson river (that reaches the sea at New York City)
Buffalo and Albany
I was Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State, and later I would orchestrate the purchase of Alaska
(William Henry) Seward