Colonial America
This colony was founded for religious freedom by Roger Williams.
👉 What is Rhode Island?
The 1773 protest where colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
👉 What is the Boston Tea Party?
The first governing document of the U.S., later replaced.
👉 What are the Articles of Confederation?
The war between the North and South from 1861–1865.
👉 What is the Civil War?
The U.S. entered this war after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
👉 What is World War II?
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
👉 What is Jamestown?
Author of the pamphlet Common Sense.
👉 Who is Thomas Paine?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
👉 What is the Bill of Rights?
President during the Civil War.
👉 Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The economic crisis that began with the stock market crash of 1929.
👉 What is the Great Depression?
This document, signed in 1620, established self-government in Plymouth.
👉 What is the Mayflower Compact?
The first battles of the American Revolution.
👉 What are Lexington and Concord?
The system that divides power among three branches.
👉 What is separation of powers?
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
👉 What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This program by Franklin D. Roosevelt aimed to fix the economy.
👉 What is the New Deal?
The trade system in which raw materials were sent to England and finished goods returned.
👉 What is mercantilism?
This 1776 document declared independence from Britain.
👉 What is the Declaration of Independence?
This compromise created a bicameral legislature.
👉 What is the Great Compromise?
The amendment that abolished slavery.
👉 What is the 13th Amendment?
The conflict between the U.S. and Soviet Union after WWII.
👉 What is the Cold War?
This event in 1676 was an uprising led by frontier settlers in Virginia.
👉 What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
The 1783 treaty that ended the Revolutionary War.
👉 What is the Treaty of Paris?
The idea that government power comes from the people.
👉 What is popular sovereignty?
The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
👉 What is Reconstruction?
This 1963 speech by Martin Luther King Jr. called for equality.
👉 What is the “I Have a Dream” speech?