Colonial & Revolution
This 1776 document declared independence from Great Britian.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This 'steel king' built a massive empire and donated much to philanthropy.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The ship sunk by German U-boats that contributed to the U.S. enter World War 1.
What is the Lucitania?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This 1765 act imposing a direct tax on printed materials in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
Amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Writer of The Jungle, exposing conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
FDR's series of programs designed to combat the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
U.S. foreign policy to provide economic aid to rebuild Europe after World War 2.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This war's debt to Britain led to the taxation that angered colonists.
What is the French and Indian War?
The 1854 act allowing settlers in a territory to decide slavery by vote.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Amendment granting women the right to vote, ratified in 1920.
Wat is the 19th Amendment?
Battle where Allied forces landed on Normandy beaches on D-Day.
What is the Normandy Invasion (D-Day)?
1962 confrontation bringing the U.S. and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Author of the Federalist Papers who later became the first Chief Justice.
Who is John Jay?
Site of war's bloodiest single-day battle on September 17, 1862.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Teddy Roosevelt's policy of reform to break up monopolies.
What is trust-busting?
U.S. president who proposed the League of Nations in his Fourteen Points.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Civil rights leader who delivered the 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This compromise admitted Maine and Missouri to preserve the balance of slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The informal agreement that ended Reconstruction in 1877.
War in 1898 that resulted in U.S. acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
The 1942 battle considered the turning point in the Pacific theater.
What is the Battle of Midway?
Legislation passed in 1965 outlawing discriminatory voting practices.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?