Miscellaneous
Antebellum America
The Cold War
World War I
The Progressivies
100

The exchange of plants, animals, ideas, people, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds 

The Columbian Exchange

100

Compromise by which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state, and Maine was admitted to the Union as a free state

The Missouri Compromise (1820)

100

Soviet leader at the end of World War II

Stalin

100

U.S. President during World War I

Woodrow Wilson

100

1913 constitutional amendment that created the Progressive Income Tax

16th Amendment

200

The first permanent English colony in the present day United States (1607)

Jamestown

200

War in which the U.S. won territory that includes present day CA, NM, UT, CO and AZ 

The Mexican-American War (1846-1848)

200

U.S. President at the end of World War II

President Harry Truman

200
British ocean liner torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, resulting in the deaths of more than 100 Americans 

Lusitania 

200

Settlement house founded by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889

Hull House

300

The "Proclamation" made by the British Royal governor of Virginia that slaves and indentured servants who joined the British army would be freed for their service

Lord Dunmore's Proclamation (1775)

300

Part of the Compromise of 1850 that was most offensive to Northerners

The Fugitive Slave Act

300

Policy of easing tensions between the USA and the USSR during the Nixon administration

Detente

300

Massachusetts Senator who led opposition to the ratification of the Versailles Treaty

Henry Cabot Lodge

300

Political party founded by Theodore Roosevelt in 1812

The Progressive Party, also known as The Bull Moose Party

400

The author of the "Long Telegram"

George Kennan

400

Abolitionist newspaper that William Lloyd Garrison founded in 1831

The Liberator 

400
Failed attempt of the U.S. to overthrow the Castro regime in 1961

The Bay of Pigs Invasion

400

German naval strategy of using U-boats to attack and destroy any boats without warning

Unrestricted submarine warfare

400

Constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote in the U.S. in 1920

The 19th Amendment

500

1887 law that broke up tribal reservations into individual allotments

The Dawes Act

500

Lincoln belonged to this political party before he joined the Republicans 

Whigs

500

Term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 to refer to the the political, ideological, and physical divide between Western and Eastern Europe

Iron Curtain

500

Year that the U.S. entered World War I

1917

500

President after Theodore Roosevelt and before Woodrow Wilson

President William Howard Taft