Colonial America
Revolution & Independance
Civil War & Reconstruction
World Wars
Cold War Tensions
100

This country established the 13 colonies in North America.

England

100

This war led to the 13 colonies breaking away from Britain.

Revolutionary War

100

President during the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln

100

The U.S. entered World War I in this year.

1917

100

The Cold War was mainly between these two superpowers.

United States and the Soviet Union

200

The first permanent English settlement in America.

Jamestown

200

He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.

Thomas Jefferson

200

The war was fought between these two sides.

Union and Confederacy

200

World War II started when this country invaded Poland.

Germany

200

A wall divided this German city during the Cold War.

Berlin Wall

300

This group of people came to Plymouth for religious freedom in 1620.

Pilgrims

300

The year the Declaration of Independence was signed.

1776

300

This document freed slaves in Confederate states.

Emancipation Proclamation

300

This day marked the Allied invasion of Normandy in WWII.

D-Day

300

This war (1950–1953) was the first armed conflict of the Cold War.

Korfean War

400

This crop helped Virginia grow and prosper.

Tobacco

400

The secret group that organized the Boston Tea Party.

Sons of Liberty

400

This amendment abolished slavery.

13th Amendment

400

The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these two cities.

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

400

What two ideologies were competing during the cold war?

Capitalism and Communism

500

The economic policy where colonies exist to benefit the mother country.

Mercantilism
500

The last major battle of the Revolutionary War.

Battle of Yorktown

500

Laws passed in the South to limit rights of freed African Americans.

Black Codes

500

The peace treaty that ended World War I.

Treaty of Versailles

500

This alliance was formed in 1949 to defend against the Soviet Union.

NATO

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