Colonial America
The Civil War
The Great Depression
The World Wars
Presidents
100
This legislative body is considered to be the first democratic institution in Colonial America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
100
This legislation created a line at the 36th parallel that stated all states north of the line must be free and those below had legalized slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
100
This makeshift villages during the Great Depression were named after the President who did nothing to help the people.
What were Hoovervilles?
100
This ultimately is considered to have ended the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
100
He was the commander of the Continental Army and presided over the Continental Congress.
Who is George Washington?
200
This crop saved the Jamestown colony from certain failure.
What is tobacco?
200
This invention led to the dramatic increase of slavery during the antebellum period.
What is the cotton gin?
200
This is the term for the programs and agencies created by F.D.R. to combat the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
200
This event caused the final push F.D.R. needed to bring the United States into World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
200
As one of his three C's, this President raised awareness for the environment and national parks.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
300
This man, a Quaker, founded one of the first thirteen colonies on the basis of religious toleration.
Who was William Penn?
300
This decision by Abraham Lincoln was used to prevent subversion by anti-war citizens during the Civil War.
What is the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus?
300
This 1919 amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
This mass moving of African-Americans from the south to the north for jobs during World War I caused an influx of African-Americans into urban areas.
What is the Great Migration?
300
This President, known for his three R's, served the most terms of any President.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
400
This was the compromise between all the states at the Constitutional Convention that created the bicameral legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
He was the General of the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
400
This outlawing of the transportation and creation of alcoholic beverages was legislated by the 18th Amendment.
What is Prohibition?
400
This is when and why the United States joined World War I.
What is 1917 and the sinking of the Lusitania?
400
He is considered to be the father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
500
This line, running along the Appalachian Mountains, was set as the division between Native Americans and American colonists.
What is the Proclamation line of 1763?
500
These are considered to be the border states during the Civil War.
What are Delaware, Missouri, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Maryland?
500
These are three causes of the Great Depression.
What are: overspeculation, overproduction, and the stock market crash?
500
This meeting of the 'Big 3' discussed the structure of post-WWII Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
500
This decree by an early President's secretary stated that any European involvement in American affairs would be met with force by the United States.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
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