Colonization through Constitution
This document, signed in 1776, declared independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This document replaced the Articles of Confederation as the framework for the U.S. government.
What is the Constitution?
This war was fought between the North and South from 1861–1865.
What is the Civil War?
This economic system is based on private ownership and free markets.
What is capitalism?
This global conflict from 1914–1918 was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is World War I?
This war was fought between Britain and France for control of North America.
What is the French and Indian War?
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This movement aimed to fix problems caused by industrialization.
What is the Progressive Movement?
This economic crisis began with a stock market crash in 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
This 1773 protest involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
These amendments abolished slavery, granted citizenship, and protected voting rights.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This program series by FDR aimed to provide relief, recovery, and reform.
What is the New Deal?
This Enlightenment idea stated that people have natural rights like life, liberty, and property.
What are natural rights?
This belief justified U.S. expansion across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This period focused on rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This war in 1898 marked the U.S. as a global power.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This Cold War policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This battle in 1781 effectively ended the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation was legal under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ended school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?