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That's Revolting!
100
This event resulted in the U.S. acquiring the territory highlighted in orange on the map below:
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
100
This 1863 executive order by Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in Confederate regions in rebellion against the United States as of January 1, 1863.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Japan's attack on this naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, caused the United States to enter World War II on behalf of the Allies.
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
This man won the 1860 United States presidential election.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
This man led the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, arguably just his second-most famous contribution to U.S. history.
Who was George Washington?
200
This crop was the primary source of income for the Southern Colonies during the American Colonial Era.
What is tobacco?
200
The escaped slave shown below became one of the greatest leaders of the Abolition Movement.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
200
This name is used to describe Germany's systematic genocide of more than 6 million Jews during the World War II era.
What is the Holocaust?
200
This woman's refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, became a model for the use of civil disobedience by the Civil Rights Movement.
Who was Rosa Parks?
200
American forces able to successfully fight against the much larger British Army during the early part of the Revolutionary War by using this strategy.
What is guerrilla warfare?
300
This was the name given to the northernmost region of Britain's American colonies, shown in purple on this map.
What were the New England colonies?
300
John Brown, Sojourner Truth, and Charles Finney are all examples of activists and supporters of this particular 18th-century reform movement.
What is abolition?
300
This code name was given to the U.S. government research project that developed the atomic bomb.
What was the Manhattan Project?
300
This 35th president of the United States who advocated for civil rights and space exploration was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
300
This British policy in the early 1700s allowed the American colonies virtual self-rule as long as Britain was gaining economically.
What was salutary neglect?
400
Under the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, this European nation ceded Florida to the U.S.
What is Spain?
400
From the 16th to 19th centuries, Europe, the Americas, and Africa were involved in this three-way system of commerce, depicted in the map below.
What was triangular trade?
400
These three men were the leaders of the primary Allied nations during World War II.
Who were Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin?
400
The election of this Democratic Republican as the third president of the United States was significant because it demonstrated the ability of the American presidency to peacefully transition from one political party to another.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
400
This last major battle of the American Revolutionary War resulted in the surrender of General Cornwallis and nearly 8,000 British soldiers under his command.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
500
This island in New York Harbor served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
500
The map below portrays this 1820 attempt to limit the spread of slavery in the U.S. by prohibiting slavery in areas north of the 36°30′ parallel.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
500
The amphibious invasion by the Allies of German-held France in World War II was known by this code name.
What was Operation Overlord?
500
This Democrat was the President of the United States at the end of World War II.
Who was Harry Truman?
500
Unlike the Townshend Acts, the Stamp Act, or the Sugar Act, this law of Parliament did not impose a direct tax on the colonies, instead requiring them to provide food and lodging for British soldiers stationed there.
What is the Quartering Act?