Early America
This European nation colonized the Hudson River Valley, losing their colony to the British by 1664...
What is Holland/The Netherlands?
This Supreme Court case deemed segregation in public schools as Unconstitutional...
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
She helped runaway slaves reach safety in the North...
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This era attempted to reintegrate the South into US society, hoping to bring civil rights to freed slaves and others...
What is Reconstruction?
This telegram was intercepted from Germany by the British, offering swathes of US territory to Mexicon during WWI...
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This was a tax on printed goods and legal papers...
What is the Stamp Act?
This Supreme Court case deemed African Americans as property rather than as citizens of the US until the passage of the 14th Amendment...
What is the Dred Scott case?
This conflict was a precursor to the Civil War in a Great Plains state out west...
What was Bleeding Kansas?
This federal regulatory agency makes sure your kitchen and medicine drawer are safe!
What is the FDA?
This neighborhood in NYC was famous for its Jazz scene and impact on African American culture nationwide...
What is Harlem?
This act forced colonists to house, clothe, and care for British troops stationed in the colonies...
What is the Quartering Act?
This Supreme Court case upheld segregation in public transportation until it was overturned over 50 years later...
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This freed slaves in Union occupied territories during the Civil War...
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Amendment granted women the right to vote in the US...
What is the 19th Amendment?
This New Deal agency helped electrify rural parts of Appalachia...
What is the TVA?
The punishment for Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin if caught after writing the Declaration of Independence...
What is death?
This Supreme Court case established the process of Judicial Review...
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Part of the original draft of the Consitution, this clause stated African Americans in bondage were to be considered less than a white American for census purposes...
What is the 3/5ths Clause?
This Amendment granted freed slaves the right to vote in the US...
What is the 15th Amendment?
This Civil Rights figure chose her seat and stuck with it...
Who is Rosa Parks?
The turning point of the American Revolution...
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
He was nominated as a Supreme Court Justice by President John Adams before his term ended, and he served in that role for nearly 34 years...
Who is John C. Marshall?
Produced by William Lloyd Garrison, this Newspaper published Abolitionist news for the country as the Civil War unfolded...
What is The Liberator?
He helped save natural wonders and encouraged interaction with nature...
The US planned and executed this massive invasion, including over 160,000 soldiers in what is history's largest amphibious invasion...
What is D-Day?