The Revolutionary Era
This 1773 Boston protest involved dumping 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This document issued by Lincoln in 1863 freed slaves in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This October 1929 event marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash (or Black Tuesday)?
This NASA program successfully landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969.
What is the Apollo program?
Abraham Lincoln earned this nickname for his legal career and moral integrity.
What is "Honest Abe"?
He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this South Carolina fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's domestic agenda to rescue the economy was called this.
What is the New Deal?
Eli Whitney's 1793 invention of this machine revolutionized the Southern cotton industry.
What is the cotton gin?
Andrew Jackson was called this due to his legendary toughness on the battlefield.
What is "Old Hickory"?
This 1777 battle is widely considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
DAILY DOUBLE
This July 1863 battle stopped General Lee's second invasion of the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This 13-day confrontation in 1962 brought the US and USSR closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
In 1903, these two brothers achieved the first sustained, controlled airplane flight.
Who are the Wright brothers?
Calvin Coolidge was known by this nickname due to his quiet, reticent nature.
What is "Silent Cal"?
This PAMPHLET by Thomas Paine rallied colonists to break away from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
This general led the devastating "March to the Sea" through Georgia.
Who is William Sherman?
He gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the 1963 March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This 1869 engineering marvel connected the Atlantic and Pacific coasts by rail.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Teddy Roosevelt's progressive policies earned him this monopoly-busting nickname.
What is the "Trust Buster"?
He was the Prussian military officer who trained American troops at Valley Forge.
Who is Baron von Steuben?
This was the capital city of the Confederacy for most of the war.
What is Richmond Virginia?
This 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy, France, is known by this operational code name.
What is Operation Overlord (or D-Day)?
Developed during WWII, this secret US government project created the first atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
DAILY DOUBLE
Martin Van Buren was called "The Little Magician" and this phrase, which birthed a common word.
What is "Old Kinderhook" (OK)?