The American Revolution
On March 5, 1770, this event resulted in five dead Bostonians, including one of the ringleaders, Crispus Attucks, a formerly enslaved man turned free dockworker.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Prior to the Constitution, this document provided the federal government with no way to raise revenue and did little to create a cohesive nation out of the various states.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The film is credited with reviving the found-footage technique which was later used by similarly successful horror films such as Paranormal Activity and Cloverfield.
What is The Blair Witch Project?
The early American belief that women were essential in nurturing the principles of liberty in the citizenry.
What is Republican Motherhood?
This 350-mile-long human-made waterway linked the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
This law required that many documents be printed on paper that had been stamped to show the duty had been paid, including newspapers, pamphlets, diplomas, legal documents, and even playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This event had shown that the federal government was capable of quelling internal unrest. But it also demonstrated that some citizens, especially poor westerners, viewed it as their enemy.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
An American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana.
Who is Kurt Cobain?
This American victory came after the United States and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Ghent on December 24, 1814.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
A simple hand-cranked device designed to mechanically remove sticky green seeds from short staple cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
The enlisting of men into naval services by force.
What is impressment?
A successful slave revolt against French colonial rule in the West Indies that ended France’s plans to expand its presence in the Americas.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
In this 1984 film, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson work as paranormal pest control in New York City.
What is Ghostbusters?
Under Thomas Jefferson's presidency, this law closed American ports to all foreign trade in hopes of avoiding war with European nations.
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
This agricultural technology allowed for the conversion of unbroken ground into fertile farmland.
What is the steel-bladed plow?
This document repeated the arguments that colonists had been making since 1765: colonists retained all the rights of native Britons, including the right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives as well as the right to a trial by jury.
What is the Declaration of Rights and Grievances?
The secretary of the treasury under George Washington and the mind behind the "whiskey tax."
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
A Japanese animator best know for his films Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke, and Howl's Moving Castle.
Who is Hayao Miyazaki?
A public project that included a new Bank of the United States to provide capital; a high protective tariff, which raised the prices of imported goods and helped American-made products compete; and a network of “internal improvements,” roads and canals to let people take American goods to market.
What is the American System?
This movement sought to limit European immigration into the United States and to prevent Catholics from establishing churches and other institutions.
What is nativism?
This proclamation promised freedom to any enslaved person who would escape their enslavers and join the British cause during the American Revolution.
What is Dunmore's Proclamation of 1775?
These laws allowed the federal government to deport foreign nationals who seemed to pose a national security threat and to prosecute anyone found to be speaking or publishing “false, scandalous, and malicious writing” against the government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This Swedish supergroup is best known for their hits, "Mamma Mia," "Fernando," and "Dancing Queen."
Who is ABBA?
This indigenous leader and his brother, Tenskwatawa, the Prophet, helped envision an alliance of North America’s Indigenous populations to halt the encroachments of the United States.
Who is Tecumseh?
The expectation that all men could start their careers as humble wage workers but later achieve positions of ownership and stability with hard work.
What is free labor ideology?