Colonial America
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
What 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe intensified Northern opposition to slavery.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This woman helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What 1954 court case declared segregation in schools unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education
What system allowed people to gain land by paying for others' passage to Virginia?
Headright System
This idea, heavily promoted in the 1840s, justified American expansion to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
What proclamation freed slaves in Confederate states?
Emancipation Proclamation
This nickname was given to women who worked in factories during WWII.
Rosie the Riveter
This case required that suspects be informed of their rights before questioning by police.
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
This 1676 rebellion highlighted tensions between backcountry settlers and the colonial elite in Virginia.
Bacon’s Rebellion
This 1830 law led to the forced removal of Native Americans from their ancestral lands.
Indian Removal Act
What 1865 amendment abolished slavery?
13th Amendment
Puritan woman who was tried and banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 for challenging religious authority.
Anne Hutchinson
This decision ruled that school-led prayer in public schools violates the Establishment Clause.
Engel v. Vitale (1962)
What Native American confederacy was the most powerful in the northeast?
Iroquois Confederacy
This act gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived on and improved it for five years.
Homestead Act
What laws restricted African Americans' rights after the war?
Black Codes
Led anti-lynching campaigns and fought for civil rights for African Americans in the early 20th century.
Ida B. Wells
This decision ruled that the state of Georgia had no authority over Cherokee lands. Andrew Jackson allegedly ignored it.
Worcester v. Georgia
What religious revival swept through the colonies in the 1730s-40s?
First Great Awakening
This 1854 law allowed settlers in certain territories to decide on slavery themselves, leading to violent conflict.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not U.S. citizens and could not sue in court.
Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Advocated for birth control and founded Planned Parenthood
Margaret Sanger
This case ruled that speech creating a “clear and present danger” is not protected under the First Amendment.
Schenck v. United States