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100

This was the first town set up by English colonists in Virginia, in 1607

Jamestown

100

The U.S. seized half the territory of this country in 1846-48 

Mexico

100

This case legalizing abortion was overturned in 2022.

Roe v. Wade

100

This Central Asian country, which the U.S. invaded in 2001, was the site of the longest war in American history (ending in 2021).

Afghanistan.

100

Patrick Henry (1776): "Give me Liberty or Give me ..." 

Death!

200

This man, whose name invokes a greasy food, led a 1676 rebellion against Virginia governor William Berkeley. 

Nathaniel Bacon

200

This president, who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in 1865, was the first to be impeached.

Andrew Johnson

200

This 1896 case legalized segregation according to the "separate but equal" doctrine.  

Plessy v. Ferguson

200

This war in Southeast Asia was the second longest war in American history.

Vietnam War
200

Abraham Lincoln (1858): "I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half [...] and half [...]

Slave and free

300

The Seven Years War was referred to as this by the English colonists in North America.

The French and Indian War

300

This government agency, founded in 1865, was the first to provide social services for freed slaves.

The Freedmen's Bureau

300

Brown v. Board of Education overturned the legal justification of segregation in 1954. The case originated in this state.

Kansas

300

It took 15 rounds for the House of Representatives to select this Republican as Speaker in 2023.

Kevin McCarthy

300

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933): "The only thing we have to fear is [...]"

Fear itself

400

This event propelled future President John Adams into the political spotlight for the first time

The Boston Massacre

400

This was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War.

The Battle of Antietam

400

This defendant in a 1966 case has since lent his name to the rights you possess after being arrested. 

Ernesto Miranda

400
In 1947, Harry Truman adopted this policy toward the Soviet Union

Containment

400

Woodrow Wilson (1917): "We need to make the world safe for ..." 

Democracy

500

These two materials, often used for shipping supplies, were also used to punish Loyalists during the American Revolution.

Tar and feathers.

500

Terrence Powderly, whose mustache wowed the nation, was the Grandmaster Workingman of this radical group in the 1870s.

The Knights of Labor

500

This Japanese-American man brought the case against the U.S. government that resulted in 1944, in a decision legitimizing Japanese Internment Camps.

Fred Korematsu
500

Michael Woodsworth grew up in this Canadian city

Montréal

500

Solemia Gainza (2022): "Please take out your notebooks and your ..."

Packets