Pre-Revolutionary War
This war was essentially the American theater of the Seven Years War.
What is the French and Indian War?
At this battle in July of 1863, Meade’s army defeated Lee’s, but both sides suffered enormous casualties.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
He won the 1912 Presidential Election despite his position as the dark horse candidate.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
He accompanied Meriwether Lewis on an expedition of discovery from 1804 to 1806.
Who is William Clark?
This president was assassinated by Charles Guiteau, a disgruntled office seeker, making him a victim of the Spoils System.
Who is James Garfield?
He created a cartoon of a disjointed snake to convince the colonies to join together lest they die.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The American Civil War began when Confederate Forces fired on this Union fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
This multi-national organization was #14 on Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points that he brought to Versailles.
What is the League of Nations?
This Supreme Court case established the precedent of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This nation-spanning project reached completion with a golden spike at Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
The issuance of this tax prompted colonists to form a Congress to discuss ways to fight it.
What is the Stamp Act?
Lee’s army surrendered to Grant at this location in Virginia on April 19, 1865.
What is Appomattox (Court House)?
Many blamed his policies for the Great Depression because he seemed powerless to stop it.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This era of positive vibes followed the War of 1812, but was it really a time of political harmony?
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
This law forbade business combinations that resulted in restraining fair trade and commerce.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by closing the harbor, the colonists found this act to be insufferable.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
It was Good Friday, the play was Our American Cousin, and this actor was the President’s assassin.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The Treasury Department enforced this law enacted to carry out the 18th Amendment.
What is the Volstead Act?
His invention of the Cotton Gin actually encouraged an increase of the Peculiar Institution. Not what he set out to do.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The Righteous and Harmonious Fists sought to rid China of all Western and colonial influence in this early 20th Century uprising.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This future president drew criticism for providing legal counsel to the British soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
The era of Reconstruction ended when an 1877 compromise gave way to his Presidency.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
FDR’s New Deal attempted to “spend” the U.S. out of the Great Depression, essentially applying this economic theory.
What is Keynesianism?
1823 policy of opposing European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
“A man, a plan, a canal, Panama” is a famous palindrome. Who is the “man?”
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?