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Antebellum
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100
This "father of his country" led the American army to independence and became our first president.
Who is George Washington?
100
The huge profits from this crop entrenched the South's committment to slavery, even as it increasingly divided the country.
What is cotton?
100
This 1861 - 1865 war remains the deadliest in American history, pitting "brother against brother" in a fight over slavery & the survival of the Union.
What is the Civil War?
100
This devastating economic crisis plunged America into poverty throughout the 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
100
This invention reshaped American free time, gobbling up thousands of hours per year with entertaining talk shows, news, game shows, sports, movies, and more.
What is television?
200
This iconic protest led Britain to send soldiers to occupy the city, sparking calls for revolution across the colonies.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
This $15 million deal became one of the best investments in American history, as Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the country by buying up French colonial land west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
200
This tropical island kingdom was taken over by American sugar planters and became a US territory in 1898.
What is Hawaii?
200
This group of Americans won full voting rights with the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920.
Who are women?
200
This 1946 - 1991 conflict with the Soviet Union shaped American society for decades until communism finally collapsed.
What is the Cold War?
300
After struggling in the first few years of independence, Americans drew up this new governing document that still defines our laws today.
What is the Constitution?
300
President James Polk conquered huge areas of the American Southwest from this country in a war from 1846 - 1848.
What is Mexico?
300
After a brief post-war period of civil rights efforts, the South instituted this new program of racial discrimination against its black population which would go on for decades.
What is segregation (or Jim Crow)?
300
This new invention enabled Americans to listen to live news, sports, plays, advertisements, and more from the comfort of their own home.
What is radio?
300
This 8-year military campaign in Southeast Asia ultimately failed to protect the pro-American South from being conquered by the communist North.
What is the Vietnam War?
400
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20 years before the American revolution, the colonists and the British fought together to drive this fur trading power out of North America.
What is France?
400
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These new industrial buildings began to emerge in America's northern cities during the early 1800s, manufacturing clothes with impressive modern machinery.
What are factories?
(or mills)
400
This oil tycoon became America's first billionaire through his Standard Oil business empire.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400
This long-serving president launched huge New Deal programs in the 1930s and led the country through World War Two.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
400
Nearly a billion people watched Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon on this successful NASA mission.
What is Apollo 11?
500
This colony brought the first English settlers to America, but its popular tobacco industry would soon bring the first enslaved Africans here as well.
What is Jamestown?
500
This legendary general won the presidency with huge support from poor, rural Americans, using that support to found the Democratic Party - but also created the "Trail of Tears."
Who is Andrew Jackson?
500
The US fought a brief 1898 war against this declining colonial power, taking Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines for ourselves.
What is Spain?
500
This legendary automaker mastered the assembly line and made cars a common feature of American life in the 1920s.
Who is Henry Ford?
500
This 1963 protest contained the most famous moment of the civil rights era: Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington?