17th Century
Colonization
Colonization
Colonies founded as trading centers.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Born on April 13, 1743, this person was an American statesman, diplomat, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the 3rd president of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
A American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
A tragedy that occured at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865.
What is Abraham Lincoln's assassination?
Founder of the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
An economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy.
What is Mercantilism?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
An American Confederate general who served in the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
An agency of early Reconstruction that assisted freedmen in the South.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
This person helped build the formidable American steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Colonies founded to escape religious persecution.
What are the New England Colonies?
A German officer who helped train American troops during the American Revolution.
Who is Baron Von Steuben?
This executive order proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten Confederate states still in rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Victor of the Presidential Election of 1876.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This served as the nation's major immigration station from 1892 to 1924. It was where immigrants obtained permission to enter the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
People who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.
Who are the Quakers?
Foreign assistance that provided help for the Americans in the American Revolution.
Who are the French?
A message stated by Abraham Lincoln, "the living can honor the wartime dead not with a speech, but rather by continuing to fight for the ideas they gave their lives for."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This granted citizenship and equal rights to African Americans who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This organization organized skilled workers into national unions consisting of others in the same trade.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
This group of people had a mutual relationship with the English settlers until other conflicts came.
Native Americans
The river Washington crossed during the Battle of Trenton as a tactic.
What is the Delaware River?
This battle began the American Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The period after the Civil War in which the federal government attempted to enforce equal suffrage on the ex-Confederate states.
What is Congressional Reconstruction?
Inventor of one of the key inventions of U.S. infrastructure, the Telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?