1491-1754
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
Who is George Washington?
The period after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
The world conflict that saw the Allies fight the Axis.
What is WWII?
The nation that acted as the opposite of the US in the Cold War.
What is the USSR?
The two European colonial powers that often fought in what would become New England.
What is Great Britain and France?
The man who defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre in court as their lawyer.
Who is John Adams?
The era that describes how people around the world started making things with new machines that changed how people interacted with products.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Gardens that Americans grew during WWI to free up rations for soldiers/
What are Victory Gardens?
The Civil Rights leader who gave the "I have a dream" speech.
What is Dr. MLK?
One of the two English groups who colonized Massachusetts in the 1600s.
Who are the Puritans or Pilgrims?
The battle that convinced the French to aid the Americans in the Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The war that the US began to acquire territory that is now the American southwest and California.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The founder of the Bull Moose party.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
The company that had the first major financial success selling home personal computers.
What is Apple or the MITS company?
The name of the trade between Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
What is the Triangle Trade?
The believed status women should hold in the Revolutionary war as symbols of the Revolution and its values.
What is Republican Motherhood?
The Union's overall strategy to defeat the Confederacy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The name of President Taft's approach to diplomacy.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
The first Black baseball player in the modern MLB era.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
The leader of the Aztec Empire during the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 1500s.
Who is Moctezuma II?
The Second Continental Congress sent this to King George III after the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
He coined the term "Gilded Age."
Who is Mark Twain?
Shanty towns that grew during President Hoover's term in response to the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
The overall American strategy regarding communism around the word.
What is containment?