Periods 1&2 (1491-1754)
Known in colonial folklore as "The Lost Colony"
What was Roanoke?
An event in which American soldiers dressed up as Natives and snuck aboard British ships to destroy overtaxed products
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The mass migration of prospective miners to the far West coast
What is the California Gold Rush?
This construction opened a route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
What is the Panama Canal?
This President allowed and encouraged the invasion of the Capital for the first time since the Civil War
Who is Donald Trump?
A best-selling book of advice by an American founding father
What is Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin?
A document containing the first ten Constitutional Amendments
What is the Bill of Rights?
This slave escaped slavery and ran an Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The first mass-produced mode of transportation in America
What is the Model T?
This unpopular policy allowed the service of closeted gays in the military
What is the Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy?
The 1517 Protestant Reformation was started by this German monk
Who is Martin Luther?
The event in which there was a "shot heard 'round the world"
What is Lexington and Concord?
This extremist terrorist group founded by a former Confederate general is known for being strongly against non-whites
What is the KKK?
This British passenger liner was attacked and sunk by a German U-boat
What is the Lusitania?
This terrorist leader was killed for his involvement in 9/11
Who is Bin Laden?
This colonial law would later be the basis of the First Amendment
What is the Maryland Act of Toleration?
The law that caused the Trail of Tears
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This invention greatly improved the ability of farmers to keep their cattle in their fields
What is barbed wire?
This president only held office for 3 years before being assassinated
Who is JFK (John F. Kennedy)?
This NASA shuttle explosion killed the entire crew and civilian teacher Christa McAullife (who was intended to be the first civilian in space)
What is the Challenger Disaster?
This Aztec leader was killed in the fall of Tenochtitlan to Hernan Cortez's Spanish forces
Who is Moctezuma?
This Christian offshoot branch was founded during the Second Great Awakening
What is the Mormon Church?
This economic crisis occurred when two major companies collapsed
What is the Panic of 1893?
Four students were shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard for protesting against the Vietnam War
This national civil rights movement rose in 2013 and again during the COVID pandemic
What is the #BlackLivesMatter movement?