Back to the Beginning
This was the first town set up by English colonists in Virginia, in 1607
Jamestown
The U.S. seized half the territory of this country in 1846-48
Mexico
This case legalizing abortion was overturned in 2022.
Roe v. Wade
This Central Asian country, which the U.S. invaded in 2001, was the site of the longest war in American history (ending in 2021).
Afghanistan.
Patrick Henry (1776): "Give me Liberty or Give me ..."
Death!
This man, whose name invokes a greasy food, led a 1676 rebellion against Virginia governor William Berkeley.
Nathaniel Bacon
This president, who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in 1865, was the first to be impeached.
Andrew Johnson
This 1896 case legalized segregation according to the "separate but equal" doctrine.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This war in Southeast Asia was the second longest war in American history.
Abraham Lincoln (1858): "I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half [...] and half [...]
Slave and free
The Seven Years War was referred to as this by the English colonists in North America.
The French and Indian War
This government agency, founded in 1865, was the first to provide social services for freed slaves.
The Freedmen's Bureau
Brown v. Board of Education overturned the legal justification of segregation in 1954. The case originated in this state.
Kansas
It took 15 rounds for the House of Representatives to select this Republican as Speaker in 2023.
Kevin McCarthy
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933): "The only thing we have to fear is [...]"
Fear itself
This event propelled future President John Adams into the political spotlight for the first time
The Boston Massacre
This was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War.
The Battle of Antietam
This defendant in a 1966 case has since lent his name to the rights you possess after being arrested.
Ernesto Miranda
Containment
Woodrow Wilson (1917): "We need to make the world safe for ..."
Democracy
These two materials, often used for shipping supplies, were also used to punish Loyalists during the American Revolution.
Tar and feathers.
Terrence Powderly, whose mustache wowed the nation, was the Grandmaster Workingman of this radical group in the 1870s.
The Knights of Labor
This Japanese-American man brought the case against the U.S. government that resulted in 1944, in a decision legitimizing Japanese Internment Camps.
Michael Woodsworth grew up in this Canadian city
Montréal
Solemia Gainza (2022): "Please take out your notebooks and your ..."
Packets