Revolutionary!
This skirmish is regularly cited as the first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought just a few miles north of Boston, MA in two distinct locations.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This Congressional compromise in 1820 established the 36°30′ line as the divider between free states and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The Spanish-American War in 1898 was fought mostly in this Caribbean country, at the time fighting against their Spanish colonizers.
What is Cuba?
Black Tuesday marked the beginning of this era of American history.
What is the Great Depression?
"I Have A Dream," while not the only memorable speech delivered at this demonstration, is surely the most recognizable in retrospect.
What is the March on Washington?
A member of the Sons of Liberty, this man's contributions to rises in anti-British sentiment range from propaganda paintings to "The British are coming!"
Who is Paul Revere?
Editor of the North Star and a famed orator, this man, who escaped slavery, became maybe the most recognizable American abolitionist, collaborating with other abolitionists like Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, and Harriet Tubman.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Immediately following the Spanish-American War, the United States fought a war quashing the revolutionary efforts in this Pacific island nation.
What are the Philippines?
Representative of the government's inability or lack of desire to provide for its people, this president was the namesake for tent communities that rose in prominence during his presidency.
Who is Hoover?
Malcolm Little became known as Malcolm X for this reason.
What is to disconnect from his colonizer name?
What is the Stamp Act?
This battle of the Civil War, fought July 1-3 of 1863, had more casualties than any other, which is why it's now cited as the "bloodiest battle of the Civil War."
What is Gettysburg?
The Triple Alliance in World War I consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. The Central Powers, a continuation of this military agreement, also consisted of this Middle Eastern empire, whose dissolution resulted in a massive imperial race for control (that inarguably is still happening).
Who is the Ottoman Empire?
Not progressive, but this, was the fundamental ideological similarity between Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover in the 1920s.
What is laissez-faire?
The Black Panthers would routinely patrol the streets, rifle in hand, and follow police officers, also called this.
What is cop-watching?
The first textile mill in the United States was founded by Samuel Slater in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the same state that saw, approximately 147 years prior, the death of this pious Puritan preaching woman.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This former vice president for Andrew Jackson and prominent war hawk was advocating for the secession of southern states, particularly his native South Carolina, as early as 1828. The disagreement between he and Jackson is ultimately what splintered their relationship.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
This future president of the 1950s was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in World War II, responsible for planning the offensive on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Who is Eisenhower?
Speakeasies, establishments illegally distributing alcohol, emerged in the wake of the 18th amendment. This amendment repealed the 18th amendment just a few years later.
What is the 21st amendment?
Iconic academic and romantic novelist James Baldwin famously owned this British racist without a chin in a debate in 1965.
Who is William F. Buckley?
Harriets Tubman, Beecher Stowe, and Hanson Robinson have each contributed mightily throughout history, all leaving positive impressions on the United States in the 1800s. These are their respective contributions:
(list what each is most known for)
What are the Underground Railroad, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and striking at Lowell?
Considered the most infamous inclusion to the Compromise of 1850, this law passed by Congress essentially made every person in America complicit to the institution of slavery. If a person were harboring a slave, it was punishable even in "free states."
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Passed in 1917, this law made illegal any vocal or symbolic protests against World War I. It also targeted sympathizers to the Bolshevik Revolution and the political left in general.
What is the Espionage Act?
The 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote all over the country (though it did mostly impact white women), would not have happened if not for the group of women who fought for it for decades and had this catchy nickname.
Who are the Suffragettes?
The Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins in 1960 were started by four African-American students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, an example of this type of higher education institution.
What is an HBCU?