Colonial & Revolution
Founded in 1607, this was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This 1803 land acquisition from France doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Issued by Lincoln in 1862, this executive order declared that all enslaved persons in rebellious states were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This 1906 legislation was passed following the publication of The Jungle to ensure safe food and medicine.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This 1949 collective defense treaty formed an alliance between the U.S., Canada, and Western European nations.
What is NATO?
This 1676 rebellion of frontiersmen against the Virginia colonial government highlighted tensions between social classes.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This 1823 policy statement warned European nations against further colonization in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This event in 1877 marked the formal end of the Reconstruction era in the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The sinking of the Lusitania and this 1917 telegram were major factors in the U.S. entering World War I.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This 1962 confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is considered the closest the world came to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Passed by Parliament in 1765, this act required a tax on all printed materials in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
Signed by Andrew Jackson in 1830, this authorized the forced relocation of Native American tribes to lands west of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine, legalizing segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1929 economic collapse signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This 1968 surprise attack by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces turned American public opinion against the Vietnam War.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This 1777 battle is widely regarded as the turning point of the American Revolution because it led to French military support.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This conflict from 1846–1848 resulted in the U.S. acquiring vast territories in the Southwest, including California.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The 1886 labor protest in Chicago turned violent, severely damaging the reputation of the Knights of Labor.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
This massive 1944 amphibious invasion of Normandy opened a second front in Europe during WWII.
What is D-Day?
This 1974 political scandal led to the only resignation of a U.S. president in history.
What is the Watergate scandal?
These ten amendments were ratified in 1791 to protect individual liberties and satisfy Anti-Federalist concerns.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Held in 1848, this was the first women's rights convention in the U.S., where the Declaration of Sentiments was issued.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Passed in 1890, this was the first federal act to outlaw monopolistic business practices.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This 1920 constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
These 1978 accords, mediated by Jimmy Carter, established a peace framework between Egypt and Israel.
What are the Camp David Accords?