1491-1754
The exchange of people, goods, disease, and ideas across the Atlantic.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The war that set the political and economic scene for the American Revolution.
What is the French and Indian War?
This cataclysmic conflict saw the United States fight itself.
What is the Civil War?
President Woodrow Wilson said that the US must make "the world safe for democracy" before entering this conflict.
What is WWI?
The President who popularized "Reaganomics."
Who is Ronald Reagan?
The "three Gs" of European colonization of the Americas
What is Gold, God, & Glory?
This event led to many Sons of Liberty to decry the British Imperial government and was famously depicted by Paul Revere.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The idea that led many to settle westward in North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
While not the only cause, this event was the spark that began the Great Depression.
What is the 1929 Stock Market crash?
The scandal that disgraced President Richard Nixon.
What is Watergate?
What was the "policy" that guided British administration of the North American colonies?
What is Salutary Neglect?
The two groups who supported/opposed the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
This promised that freedmen would have 40 acres and a mule to work land from dismantled plantations.
What is the Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15?
The American strategy in the Pacific during WWII concerning taking land.
What is Island Hopping?
The movement that advocated for increased women's rights in the '60s, '70s, and '80s.
The war that began to shape an American identity.
What is Metacom's/King Philip's War?
The British plan to cut the American colonies in half early in the war that ultimately failed.
What is the New England Strategy?
This man became the symbol of Gilded Age corruption.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
The WWII Allies' codename for the invasion of Italy through Sicily.
What is Operation Husky?
The North Vietnamese attack that put to lie the idea that the Americans and South Vietnamese had complete control in Vietnam.
What is the Tet Offensive?
The British general who led a disastrous campaign in the French and Indian War.
Who is General Edward Braddock?
The burning of this British navy ship in 1772 highlighted the tensions between New England smugglers and the British authorities.
What is the HMS Gaspee?
These Reconstruction-era Supreme Court cases significantly restricted the protections of the Fourtheenth Amendment during Reconstruction.
What were the Slaughterhouse Cases of 1873?
He led Filipino rebels against American colonization.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
The secret report that argued the US needed to build-up its military capacity to combat potential Soviet aggression.
What is NSC-68?