Exploration & Colonization
This European country funded Christopher Columbus’ 1492 voyage that reached the Americas.
What/Where is Spain?
This event in 1773 involved colonists protesting British taxation by dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This year saw the American Civil War begin.
When/What is 1861?
This 20th-century conflict saw the U.S. enter after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
What was World War II?
The U.S. invaded this country in 2003, beginning a conflict intended to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
Where/What is Iraq?
This president not only purchased the Louisiana Territory in 1803, but also commissioned explorers Meriweather Lewis and William Clark to scout and map the land in 1804.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
In this year the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
When/What was 1776?
This legendary Confederate-general commanded the Army of Northern Virginia and advanced as far north as Gettysburg.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
This president ushered in the New Deal, the Second New Deal, Social Security, and led the U.S. in W.W.II until his death in 1945.
Who was F.D.R. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)?
This large-scale natural disaster in 2005 exposed shortcomings in federal disaster response, killed over 1,400 people and heavily affected New Orleans. Name the storm.
What was (Hurricane) Katrina?
This cash-crop became the economic foundation of Virginia and other Chesapeake colonies in the 17th century.
What is tobacco? (also acceptable: sugar, indigo)
The revolutionary pamphlet, Common Sense, was written by this Founding Father.
Who was Thomas Paine?
This 1863 document declared that enslaved people in Confederate-controlled territories were free.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Americans entered into this extremely-unpopular war after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964).
What was the Vietnam War?
The 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol occurred on the day Congress met to certify the presidential election results on this day (month + day).
The first permanent colonial settlement in the Americas was St. Augustine, established by the Spanish in 1565, and is located in this modern-day state.
Where/What is Florida?
The "shot heard 'round the world" was fired at this location in the spring of 1775, thus commencing the American Revolution.
Where was Lexington (and Concord), Massachusetts?
On April 14th, 1865, just 5 days after the Civil War concluded, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by this contemporary-actor.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
The final straw before American entered in W.W.I was when the Germans sent the Zimmerman Telegram to this nation.
What/Where is Mexico?
The Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama, is colloquially-known for this nickname.
What is "Obamacare"?
500 years before Columbus, this Viking became the first European to step foot in the Americas.
At the end of the Revolutionary War, the treaty signed in and named after this European-city formally ended the conflict and recognized U.S. independence.
The infamous Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), enshrined this 3-word phrase into law and was used to justify the segregation of the races until 1954.
What is "separate, but equal"?
This many presidents died in office over the course of the 20th-century (1900 - 1999).
What is 4?
This terrorist group, led by Osama Bin Laden (k. 2011), successfully launched a series of attacks on September 11th, 2001, that saw nearly 3,000 civilians perish.
Who/What is Al Qaeda?