Colonial America and Revolution
This colonial region was known for its shipbuilding, fishing, and Puritan communities.
What is New England?
He was the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This term describes the rapid growth of cities in the late 1800s.
What is urbanization?
This global conflict lasted from 1914–1918.
What is World War 1?
This 1770 event in Boston increased tensions between colonists and British soldiers.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This 1803 land purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1863 battle is often considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This Scottish-American industrialist made his fortune in steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This economic crisis began with the stock market crash of 1929.
This economic crisis began with the stock market crash of 1929.
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued for independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining the balance in Congress.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This set of laws in the South enforced racial segregation after Reconstruction.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld “separate but equal” segregation laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The U.S. entered WWII after the attack on this Hawaiian location.
This 1777 battle in New York convinced France to ally with the colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This forced relocation of Native Americans in the 1830s was called the “Trail of” this.
What is Tears? (Trail of Tears)
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This reform movement sought to end the sale and consumption of alcohol.
What is the temperance movement/Prohibition?
This WWII program supplied Allied nations with war materials before the U.S. formally entered the war.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This treaty ended the American Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
This 1848 meeting in New York launched the women’s rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This 1876 battle was a major victory for Native Americans over U.S. forces.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This event in 1882 greatly restricted immigration from a specific Asian country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This project during WWII developed the first nuclear weapons.
What is the Manhattan Project?