American Revolution
This December 1773 protest saw colonists disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians and dump 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The first shots of the American Civil War were fired in April 1861 at this fort located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
This name is given the day the stock market crashed and triggered the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
This Constitutional Amendment, ratified in 1865, officially abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Before its ratification in 1920, the 19th Amendment was popularly known by the name of this legendary suffragist, who originally introduced it to Congress in 1878 alongside Senator Aaron A. Sargent.
What is the Susan B. Anthony Amendment?
He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and later became the third President of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Abraham Lincoln began this famous 1863 speech with the words, "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation..."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This regional disaster was caused by severe drought and poor farming practices, destroying millions of acres of farmland in the Great Plains during the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The primary statutory basis for the impeachment of Andrew Johnson was his violation of this 1867 federal law, passed over his veto, which restricted the president from removing certain officeholders without Senate approval.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
This journalist co-founded the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, the first black women's suffrage organization, and famously refused to walk at the back of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This 1777 battle in New York is widely considered the turning point of the war because it convinced France to officially ally with the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This electronic communication system, heavily utilized by Abraham Lincoln to send immediate commands to his generals, gave the Union a massive logistical advantage over the Confederacy.
What is the telegraph?
Elected in 1932, this president promised a "New Deal" for the American people and held "fireside chats" via the radio to restore public confidence.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Despite the Freedmen's Bureau's efforts to redistribute land via General Sherman's Special Field Orders No. 15, its long term efficacy was severely undermined when this executive action ordered nearly all confiscated land restored to its original Confederate owners.
What is President Andrew Johnson's amnesty proclamation (presidential pardons)
At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, this famous abolitionist and former slave was one of the few men in attendance who passionately argued in favor of Elizabeth Stanton's demand for women's right to vote.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Published anonymously in January 1776, this wildly popular pamphlet was argued for immediate independence from British rule.
What is Common Sense?
Fought in September 1862, this single-day battle in Maryland remains the bloodiest day in American military history
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Shantytowns built by homeless people during the Depression were sarcastically named these, mocking the president in office when the depression started.
What are Hoovervilles?
While "Scalawag" described Southern white Republicans, this distinct derogatory term targeted Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction
What is Carpetbaggers?
In this landmark 1875 case, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that while women were citizens, the Constitution did not grant them a fundamental right to vote, forcing suffragists to shift tactics from legal challenges to pursuing a constitutional amendment.
What is Minor v. Happersett?
In response to the 1765 Stamp Act, delegates from nine colonies met in New York to draft this document.
What is the Declaration of Rights and Grievances?
General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant at this Virginia location on April 9, 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House?
Created as part of the Second New Deal in 1935, this federal agency was the largest employer of the era
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
The Compromise of 1877 successfully seated Rutherford B. Hayes as president after a special 15 member electoral commission ruled on contested electoral votes from what 3 states?
What is South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida?
While imprisoned for picketing the Wilson White House in 1917, Alice Paul and other Silent Sentinels were subjected to brutal force-feedings during a hunger strike at this notorious Virginia workhouse.
What is the Occoquan Workhouse?