U.S. History
1607-1866
1607-1866
This English colony, established on an island off the coast of North Carolina in 1587, completely disappeared by 1590, leaving behind only the word "Croatoan" carved into a post.
What is the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
This is the name given to the historic era immediately following the Civil War, during which the United States worked to rebuild the South and readmit the Confederate states back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
This U.S. President led the nation through the Great Depression with his "New Deal" programs and served as Commander-in-Chief during most of World War II.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
During the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the states had a massive debate over how they would be represented in Congress. This deal solved the argument by creating a two-house legislature: one based on population, and one with equal votes for every state.
What is the Great Compromise?
In 1940, over 330,000 Allied soldiers trapped on the beaches of this French city were rescued and evacuated across the English Channel by a massive fleet of military and civilian boats.
What is Dukirk?
These two events is Massachusetts highlighted the growing dissatisfaction the colonies had with the British government.
What are the Boston Tea Party and Boston Massacre?
The Great Depression began in October 1929 following this catastrophic economic event on Wall Street, where stock prices plummeted and investors lost billions of dollars.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This U.S. President, nicknamed "Old Hickory," strongly pushed for the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This massive debate during the ratification of the Constitution featured one side demanding a specific list of protected individual rights be added before they would sign, while the other side thought it wasn't necessary.
What is the debate over the Bill of Rights?
They were investigative journalists who reported about and exposed such issues as crime, fraud, and waste.
Who were muckrakers?
The violent conflict known as "Bleeding Kansas" erupted in the 1850s over whether the territory would allow slavery, a decision left to the voters under this political policy.
What is popular sovereignty?
This tense event started when U.S. intelligence discovered evidence of a general Soviet arms build-up on an island near Florida.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
He sued for his freedom under the precedent he free due to his residence in a free territory where slavery was prohibited.
Who is Dred Scott?
In 1820, Congress had a bitter debate over balancing the power between slave and free states. They settled it by drawing an imaginary line across the territories at the 36°30' parallel, banning slavery anywhere north of it.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Following three years of brutal fighting that ended in a 1953 armistice, the Korean War ground to a stalemate and left the peninsula permanently divided near this specific line of latitude.
What is the 38th Parallel?
This was the first state to secede from the Union before the start of the Civil War.
What is South Carolina?
Passed in 1882, this law became the first major federal legislation to suspend immigration into the United States based entirely on a specific group's nationality or race.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
She wrote about the corruption of Standard Oil in her book, The History of Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
After World War I, President Woodrow Wilson traveled across the country to debate the U.S. Senate over whether America should join this early international peacekeeping organization, which the Senate ultimately rejected.
What is the League of Nations?
Nicknamed "FDR's Tree Army," this popular New Deal work relief program employed millions of young, unmarried men during the Great Depression to plant billions of trees, build trails, and improve national parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps? (CCC)
This massive religious movement in the 1730s and 1740s swept through the 13 colonies, featuring passionate, emotional preachers who traveled from town to town drawing huge outdoor crowds.
What is the Great Awakening?
Historians often use an acronym to describe the four long-term causes that led to World War I (Name the Acronym and causes)
What is M.A.I.N., Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
This Gilded Age tycoon, famously nicknamed "The Commodore," built a massive horizontal monopoly by consolidating control over the nation's railroads and steamship lines, forcing competitors out of business.
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
The famous 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Tennessee sparked a massive national debate over modern science versus traditional religion after a biology teacher was arrested for breaking a state law that banned the teaching of this scientific theory.
What is evolution? (Darwinism / Theory of Evolution)
This 21st President unexpectedly took office in 1881 after the assassination of James A. Garfield. Despite being a product of corrupt political machines himself, he surprised everyone by signing the Pendleton Act, which created the modern civil service system.
Who was Chester A. Arthur?