Founding Fathers? More Like Founding Feathers
This “bird” was famously proposed by Benjamin Franklin as the national symbol instead of the bald eagle.
What is the turkey?
This 1770 event was the “OG clapback” that left five colonists dead.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1787 meeting replaced the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
This 1820 compromise kept the balance between free and slave states.
This 1620 agreement, signed aboard a ship, helped “nest” the idea of self-government in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 1773 protest was the “tea-spilling” moment of colonial resistance.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This 1840s belief justified American expansion across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This compromise counted enslaved people as part of the population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This 1852 novel “went viral” and fueled abolitionist sentiment.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This 1763 royal decree “clipped the wings” of colonial expansion west of the Appalachians.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine was the “hot take” that made independence make sense.
What is Common Sense?
This 1862 act gave land to settlers willing to move west.
What is the Homestead Act?
This 1803 case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
This 1854 act let states vote on slavery, leading to “Bleeding Kansas.”
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This 1832 crisis saw South Carolina threaten to “fly the coop” over tariffs.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This 1781 battle was the “final boss fight” of the Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This 1846 treaty settled the Oregon boundary dispute with Britain.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
This 1819 case ruled that states couldn’t tax the federal government.
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v Sandford?
This 1830s forced migration of Native Americans is often symbolized by the loss of the “eagle’s land.”
What is the Trail of Tears?
This 1783 treaty was the “official breakup text” with Britain.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
This war (1846–1848) resulted in the U.S. acquiring California and the Southwest.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This 1832 case ruled in favor of Native sovereignty, but was ignored by Jackson.
What is Worcester v Georgia?
This 1860 event was the final straw for Southern secession.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?