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100

This president served during the American Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

100

Where the treaty that ended WWII was signed

Palace of Versailles
100

This event, which killed five people, was widely publicized and was a major cause of the American Revolution

Boston Massacre

100

This case overturned the doctrine "Separate but Equal"

Brown v. Board of Education

100

The Spanish American War resulted in the US gaining Cuba (briefly), Puerto Rico, Guam, and this island nation

The Philippines
200
He was the president during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and started the war in Afghanistan

George W. Bush

200

Where Lincoln held his famous speech in which he stated, "Four score and seven years ago..."

Gettysburg

200

Some call this event as close to the end of the world as we have ever gotten. A small island off the coast of Florida was stockpiling Soviet nuclear arms leading to this

Cuban Missile Crisis

200

Established the doctrine of "clear and present danger" after the defendant was arrested for mailing out anti-war flyers

Schenck v. US

200

Term where the crew of a ship would be "kidnapped" or taken by a foreign nation; one of the major causes of Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act and the War of 1812

Impressment

300
The first Secretary of the Treasury

Alexander Hamilton

300

City which held the Constitutional Convention

Philadelphia

300

This battleship exploding off the coast of Cuba sparked the beginning of the Spanish American War

USS Maine

300

Andrew Jackson violated this Supreme Court case when he removed the Cherokees from Georgia

Worcester v. Georgia

300

This document gave Parliament the power of the purse and established the British concept of limited government

Magna Carta

400

This Congressman opposed the passage of the Treaty of Versailles and Wilson's Fourteen Points

Henry Cabot Lodge

400

This was the region in France where the D-Day landings happen

Normandy

400

This treaty ended the Revolutionary War

Treaty of Paris

400

This was a landmark Supreme Court case that reinforced the notion of federalism in regards to a dispute over the Second Bank of the US

McCulloch v. Maryland

400

Amendment that gives the right to an unbiased jury in all criminal proceedings 

6th Amendment

500

This man evaded internment from the US military, and even though he lost his Supreme Court case, he left a massive mark in his fight for civil rights

Fred Korematsu

500

Location of the first battle of the American Civil War; resulted in a Confederate victory

Fort Sumter

500

This preliminary conference before the fall of Germany during WWII saw three major allied nations discussing the future of Europe after the war

Yalta Conference

500

This case was a dispute over interstate railroad prices that resulted in the highest court ruling in favor of Congress over a lone state

Pacific Railroad v. Illinois

500

What was the date of the Pearl Harbor Attacks?

Dec 7, 1941