Off to the New World
The first European settlement on what is now US territory.
What is Puerto Rico?
The law that raised taxes on colonial goods in order to pay back debts from the French and Indian War.
What is the Stamp Act?
The argument that American currency should be based on gold.
What is the Gold Standard?
The only President to win more than two terms as a President.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Founder of the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
The law that banned Chinese immigration to America.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The man who led the rebellion against the Massachusetts government that triggered the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Daniel Shays?
The President who vetoed the Second National Bank.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The President who led the Spanish American War.
Who is William McKinley?
Who is Thomas Paine?
The political party and movement founded exclusively to banning Irish Catholic immigrants in the 1800s.
Who are the Know Nothings?
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and this figure were responsible for writing the Federalist Papers.
Who is John Jay?
The British policy, pursued until the 1760s, of not enforcing certain trade restrictions on the colonies.
What is salutary neglect?
The President accused of enacting a corrupt bargain by Andrew Jackson in order to become President.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
Advocate for the rights of union workers and an end to child labor.
Who is Mother Jones?
The publication dedicated to helping western farmers manage their new plots.
What is The Grange?
The political figure most responsible for developing the ideas in George Washington's Farewell Address.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This President attempted price controls on consumer goods as a response to an economic crisis.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The woman who arguably led the country while her husband spent six months recovering from a stroke.
Who is Edith Wilson?
Founding President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Who is John Lewis
The Dutch General who lost New Amsterdam to the British who renamed it New York.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
This rebellion in Worcester triggered the American Revolution and was a response to this law.
What is the Massachusetts Government Act?
This tariff by William Taft alienated Progressives in the Republican Party who wanted free trade and a reduction of monopolies.
What is the Payne-Aldrich Tariff?
The President who signed Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 after his predecessor died in office.
Who is Millard Fillmore?
The preacher who ran tent revivals for thousands of people in New York and is considered the founder of the 2nd Great Awakening.
Who is Charles Grandisson Finney?