I am a document
I am a year
I am a person
I am a place
I am myself
100

The country needed a government, and so John Dickinson wrote me, and the Second Continental Congress passed me.  Too bad I sucked.

Articles of Confederation

100

When the Mexican American War started

1846

100

I was Elizabeth Cady Stanton's bestie and helped start the Seneca Falls Convention

Lucretia Mott

100

I (my name) am the colony that the Pilgrims founded in 1620

Plymouth Colony

100

I was named after Henry Clay's little brother (who was a staunch abolitionist), won a gold medal at 18, became one of the most famous athletes of all time, then joined the nation of Islam and changed my name, and went to prison for conscientiously objecting to the Vietnam War

Mohammed Ali

200

I am the law that forced Native Americans to break their historical lands into individual plots, thereby fostering assimilation.

Dawes Act (1887)

200

I am the year that Reconstruction ended when Hayes agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South in exchange for people not disputing my Presidential election victory.

1877

200

I wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin and helped inspire abolitionism. 

Harriet Beecher Stowe

200

I am a place in Virginia (now in West Virginia) where the national Armory was, and where John Brown attempted his famous raid.

Harper's Ferry

200

This native uprising was named after the chief who united tribes against the British colonists after the French were defeated.  The British won but they didn't like all this fighting and so passed the Proclamation of 1763 afterwards 

Pontiac's Rebellion

300

I was passed by Obama and am the latest extension of the entitlement programs that were started by FDR and continued through the Great Society

Affordable Care Act (2010)

300
I am the year that the House Un-American Activities Committee was established

1939

300

I gave a speech about the dangers of the military-industrial complex when I left office (for the record, farewell addresses are usually pretty legit)

Dwight Eisenhower

300

I am an island in the Pacific where the US Navy defeated the Akido Butai.  This US victory was seen as the turning point in the Pacific Theatre.

Midway

300

I was one of George Washington's two favorite generals, brought canons 700 miles in winter from Ft. Ticonderoga to help defeat the British at Boston, and later became the country's first Secretary of War.  My wife and myself were very large human beings. 

Henry Knox

400

I am the Supreme Court Case that established Judicial Review (the right of the court to decide the Constitutionality of laws and actions)

Marbury vs. Madison (1803)

400

When the riots at the Democratic National Convention happened

1968

400

I am the person who invented air brakes for railroads, and I also produced a transformer to use alternating current (AC).

I. Am. George. Westinghouse.

400

I am a neighborhood in Los Angeles where Black Americans rioted in 1965 against poverty and racial discrimination

Watts

400

Name one Historically Black College 

Howard, Morehouse, Tuskegee

500

I am the name of the book written by Thomas Hobbes that established the idea of the social contract.  My title is a reference to a gigantic biblical beast.  This was my name for the powers that I believed a benevolent monarch should assume in the name of the people.

The Leviathan (1651)

500

When William Jennings Bryan ran for President the first time, and gave his Cross of Gold speech at the Democratic National Convention

1896

500

I negotiated a Treaty with Spain in 1793 which gave the US rights to navigate the Mississippi and not get taxed when they shipped those goods out of New Orleans.

Charles Pinckney

500

We are the cities that the Erie Canal ran between.  One of us is on Lake Erie, and the other is on the Hudson river (that reaches the sea at New York City)

Buffalo and Albany

500

I was Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State, and later I would orchestrate the purchase of Alaska

(William Henry) Seward