Famous Figures
Presidents
Primary Sources
Civil War
Key Events
100

Led raid on federal arsenal and immortalized in marching song

Who was John Brown?

100

Saw the rise of political parties

Who was George Washington?

100

Cut the miracles and resurrection out of the gospels

What was the Jefferson Bible? 

100

Confederate president

Who was Jefferson Davis?


100

First shot of the American Revolution

What is the "shot heard 'round the world?"

200

Native American liaison between Powhatans and English

Who is Pocahontas?

200

His name became synonymous with scandal

Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

200

1657 document in which Dutch settlers argued for religious freedom from the Bible

What is the Flushing Remonstrance?

200

Lincoln's assassin

Who was John Wilkes Booth?

200

Movement which elevated reason and science above revelation

What is the Enlightenment?

300

English "celebrity preacher" of the First Great Awakening

Who was George Whitefield?

300

Received the "religious freedom cheese"

Who was Thomas Jefferson?

300

Common nineteenth-century schoolbooks

What were the McGuffey readers?

300

Number of people killed in the Civil War

What was 750,000?

300

Cherokees exiled to Oklahoma in 1838

What was the Trail of Tears?

400

Woman put on trial for defying Puritan theology 

Who is Anne Hutchinson?

400

Looked out for the "common man" (white male)

Who was Andrew Jackson?

400

Cookbook written by Lydia Maria Child

What is the American Frugal Housewife?

400

Christmas carol written by Longfellow about the war

What is "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day?" 

400

Mass revival which started the Second Great Awakening

What is the Cane Ridge Revival of 1801?

500

Enslaved woman who was the mother of Jefferson's children

Who was Sally Hemings?

500

President during the War of 1812

Who was James Madison?

500

Autobiography of a Second Great Awakening preacher ("rough and tumble")

What was the autobiography of Peter Cartwright? 
500

Location of Lee's surrender to Grant

What was Appomattox Court House, VA?

500

Year in which African laborers were first brought to the New World

What is 1619?