Prominent People
Epic Events
Political Maneuvers
Advanced Technologies
Acts of State
100
The invention of this timekeeping system, shown in the image below, made it possible to have consistent railway schedules across the country.
What are time zones?
100
This legislation, passed by Congress in 1882, prohibited almost all immigration of workers from China.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
100
At the time that the U.S. annexed this territory it was a separate nation known as the Lone Star Republic.
What was Texas?
100
Samuel Morse invented this new technology, which uses electrical pulses for long-distance communication, in 1837.
What is the telegraph?
100
Pursuant to the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, Spain ceded this territory to the United States.
What was Florida?
200
The "new" immigrants who came to the United States in the late 1800s generally came from these regions of Europe.
What are Southern and Easter Europe?
200
150-200 American Indians were killed in this incident, which took place when a Colorado cavalry officer led his soldiers against a group of Cheyenne and Arapahoe that he believed were planning to attack a U.S. Army fort.
What was the Sand Creek Massacre?
200
Members of Congress who pushed for war against Great Britain in the years leading up to 1812 were given this nickname.
What were War Hawks?
200
Han Solo's starship, the Millennium Falcon, used this technology to travel the galaxy at faster-than-light speeds.
What was a hyperdrive?
200
Southern opponents of the federal government's 1828 tax on imported goods gave it this name to signal their hatred of its terms.
What was the Tariff of Abominations?
300
All working class immigrants who entered the United States through this immigration station in New York Harbor were required to show that they had a sponsor to assume financial responsibility for them.
What was Ellis Island?
300
This U.S. president and hero of the Civil War found his administration married by numerous scandals and corruption due to his willingness to trust friends of poor character.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
300
Andrew Jackson's opponents gave this name to his practice of giving government jobs to his supporters rather than to those who earned them based on merit.
What was the spoils system?
300
This type of road, which requires users to pay a toll, began to appear in the United States during the late 1700s.
What is a turnpike?
300
This 1854 transaction with Mexico added the final piece to the territory that comprises the contiguous United States
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
400
This is the name used to describe the movement of population from farming areas into cities.
What is rural-to-urban migration?
400
This political party advocated for government takeover of the railroads in order to reduce shipping costs.
What was the Populist Party?
400
John C. Calhoun was an advocate of this doctrine which was used by Southern states to claim that they could void any federal law they deemed illegal.
Was was nullification?
400
The development of this technology had the greatest impact on the American transportation system throughout the 1800s.
What is the steam engine?
400
Andrew Jackson convinced Congress to pass this law, which gave him the authority to force Native American tribes to relocate from states in the Southeast to the Oklahoma Territory.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
500
This event, which took place in Chicago in 1886, hurt the labor movement because many Americans came to believe that union members were violent anarchists.
What was the Haymarket Riot?
500
This presidential hopeful was the first major candidate to campaign in-person for national office by traveling throughout the country on railroads.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
500
John Quincy Adams defeated Andrew Jackson in the 1824 presidential election due to this vote by the House of Representatives that takes place only if the Electoral College is unable to declare a winner.
What is a contingent election?
500
Eli Whitney's introduction of this manufacturing concept helped factory-made products replace the work of most skilled craftsmen.
What are interchangeable parts?
500
This 1814 agreement ended the War of 1812.
What was the Treaty of Ghent?