Founding Era (1770s–1800s)
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This document declared independence in 1776.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1803 purchase doubled U.S. territor
Question: What is the Civil War?
Answer: War between North and South (1861–1865)
Question: What is Industrialization?
Answer: Rapid growth of industry in late 1800s.
Question: What is World War I?
Answer: U.S. enters this war in 1917.
Who is George Washington
First U.S. president.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Belief in U.S. westward expansion.
Question: Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Answer: President during the Civil War.
Question: Who are muckrakers?
Answer: Investigative journalists exposing corruption.
Question: What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
Answer: 1929 economic crash
What is the Constitutional Convention?
This 1787 meeting created the U.S. Constitution.
Question: What is the Oregon Trail?
Answer: This trail led settlers to Oregon.
Question: What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Answer: This proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
Question: What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Answer: This railroad linked the East and West coasts.
Question: Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Answer: U.S. president who created the New Deal.
What is the Great Compromise?
This compromise created a bicameral legislature.
Question: What is the Mexican-American War?
Answer: War between the U.S. and Mexico (1846–1848).
Question: What is the 13th Amendment?
Answer: Amendment that abolished slavery.
Question: What is antitrust legislation?
Answer: Breakup of large monopolies like Standard Oil.
Question: What is the Cold War?
Answer: Cold War rivalry between U.S. and USSR.
What is the Bill of Rights?
First ten amendments to the Constitution.
Question: What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Answer: 1848 treaty ending the Mexican-American War.
Question: What is Reconstruction?
Answer: Period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
Question: What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Answer: 1906 law regulating food and drugs.
Questio:What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Answer:1954 case ending school segregation.