Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
What are the states that seceded from abolishing slavery?
100
This expedition departed St. Louis, Missouri, on a mission to map a course to the Pacific Ocean.
What was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
100
Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
The stock market crashes in 1929.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
The first American state to abolish slavery
What is Vermont?
200
General Irvin McDowell attacked Virginia on July 21st, 1861.
What was the First Battle of Bull Run?
200
The act that granted President Jackson the authority to remove Native Americans living east of the Mississippi River.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
200
Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary.
Who were the Triple Alliance?
200
Steeply raising import duties in an attempt to protect American manufactures from foreign competition.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
200
Escapes slavery in Maryland and spends the next several years helping more than 300 people escape to free territory by way of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
Civil War began with shots fired on the fort on April 12th, 1861.
What was the Attack on Fort Sumter?
300
More than 80,000 people move to California in search of gold in 1848
What was the Gold Rush?
300
Great Britain, France, and Russia.
Who were the Triple Entente?
300
President that was elected in 1933
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
300
Is granted to all American males in 1870
What is the right to vote?
400
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri.
What are the states that didn't join the Confederacy?
400
the first productive commercial oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania.
Who is Edwin Drake?
400
On May 7th, 1915, Germans torpedoed the passenger line Lusitania and killed 128 American lives.
Why the United States finally entered war?
400
Sends a letter to the Long Beach Press-Telegram proposing state-funded pensions for the elderly to boost consumption and employment.
Who is Dr. Francis Townsend?
400
Giving all black citizens the right to equal treatment in public and on any public transportation.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
500
Invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
500
This act gave free farms to families, based on family size; the only requirement was residence for a fixed period of time.
What was the Homestead Act?
500
The peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918
What was The Treaty of Versailles?
500
Founded the Share Our Wealth society, advocating outright seizure of the "excess fortunes" of the rich to redistribute to the poor.
Who is Huey Long?
500
Arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, AL.