Revolution & Founders
This 1773 protest in Massachusetts involved dumping 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This 1803 land deal with France doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The U.S. entered WWII following a surprise attack on this naval base on December 7, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This 1950s-60s movement sought to end institutionalized racial discrimination and disenfranchisement.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
He is the only U.S. President to serve more than two terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This 16th President issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was the name of the top-secret U.S. project to develop the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
In 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to perform this feat.
What is walking on the Moon?
This President’s "Great Society" program included the creation of Medicare and Medicaid.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This 1770 event saw British soldiers fire into a crowd, killing five colonists and fueling revolutionary sentiment.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The belief that the U.S. was destined by God to expand across the entire North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
President Woodrow Wilson proposed this international organization after WWI, though the U.S. never joined.
What is the League of Nations?
This scandal involving a break-in at the DNC headquarters led to the resignation of Richard Nixon.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
Before becoming the 34th President, he served as the Supreme Allied Commander during WWII.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Before the Constitution, this document served as the first governing framework of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This 1863 battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the American Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This 1917 telegram from Germany to Mexico, promising U.S. territory, helped draw the U.S. into WWI.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This 13-day confrontation in 1962 brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
He was the first President to be impeached (though not removed from office).
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This Prussian military officer helped train the Continental Army at Valley Forge, turning them into a professional fighting force.
Who is Baron von Steuben?
This 1848 meeting in New York is often cited as the first organized convention for women's rights in the U.S.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
These Native American soldiers used their tribal language to send secret messages that the Axis powers could never crack.
Who are the Code Talkers (or Navajo Code Talkers)?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that "separate but equal" education was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This President survived an assassination attempt just 69 days into his presidency in 1981.
Who is Ronald Reagan?