Founding Fathers & Reformers
This author of the Declaration of Independence later became the third President of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This war began in 1775 and led to American independence.
What is the American Revolution?
This act of 1820 maintained the balance of power between slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This movement sought to end slavery in the United States.
What is abolitionism?
This territory was purchased from France in 1803.
He was the principal author of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Who is James Madison?
This war from 1812 to 1815 was fought between the U.S. and Britain.
What is The War of 1812?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans could not be citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This term refers to the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This trail was used by pioneers moving west in the 1840s.
This Massachusetts woman was a key leader in the women’s suffrage movement.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
The attack on this U.S. naval base led to American entry into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This 1954 case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This post-WWII movement sought to eliminate racial segregation and discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The U.S. acquired this present-day state as an independent republic in 1845.
What is Texas?
He led a transcendentalist movement and wrote Civil Disobedience.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
This war ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This 1965 act eliminated literacy tests and other barriers to Black voting rights.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This movement in the 1830s promoted alcohol abstinence.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This 1846 treaty settled the U.S.-British border in the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
This African American abolitionist escaped slavery and published The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This conflict involved U.S. military action to contain communism in Southeast Asia.
What is the Vietnam War?
This 1973 case legalized abortion nationwide.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This 20th-century anti-communist movement led to blacklisting in Hollywood.
What is McCarthyism?
This river forms part of the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
She opened the Hull House and is considered a pioneer in social work.
Who is Jane Addams?
This Civil War battle in Pennsylvania was a major turning point in 1863.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This New Deal program protected the rights of labor unions.
What is the Wagner Act?
This 1890s political movement advocated for farmers and the free coinage of silver.
What is Populism?
This land acquisition completed the contiguous U.S. in 1853.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
He was a fiery orator of the Second Great Awakening.
Who is Charles Grandison Finney?
This 1898 conflict resulted in the U.S. acquiring the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
What is the Spanish - American War?
This act created the first national bank and was supported by Hamilton.
What is the Bank Act of 1791?
This 1920s movement emphasized African American cultural pride.
The U.S. fought Spain over this island in 1898; it remains a U.S. territory today.
What is Puerto Rico?
This former slave became an influential advocate for abolition and women’s rights with her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This Cold War event in 1962 brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This act of 1887 attempted to assimilate Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
This 1960s student-led movement opposed the Vietnam War and promoted civil rights.
What is the New Left?
This line, established in 1820, helped define free vs. slave territories.
What is the 36°30′ line?
He argued for nullification in response to federal tariffs in the 1830s.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
This early colonial conflict involved Native Americans and Puritans in New England.
What is King Philip’s War?
This 1819 case established the principle of implied powers of Congress.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
This ideology justified American imperialism in the late 19th century.
What is Social Darwinism?
This state became the first to secede from the Union in 1860.
What is South Carolina?
He was a key reformer of the American education system in the 1800s.
Who is Horace Mann?
This 1754–1763 war set the stage for American colonial unrest.
What is the French and Indian War?
This 1862 act gave land to states to fund agricultural colleges.
What is the Morrill Land-Grant Act?
This religious revival in the early 1800s fueled many reform movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This mountain range was a natural barrier to early American expansion.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?