1763-1787
It's the document signed on July 4th, 1776 that declared independence from Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The United States bought a huge piece of land from France in 1803, doubling the size of the country. What was this purchase called?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The main disagreement that led to the Civil War was over this issue.
What is slavery?
This was a time when many factories were built, and people moved from farms to cities to find work.
What is the Industrial Revolution (or Industrial Age)?
This major global war involved the United States from 1917 to 1918.
What is WW1?
After World War II, the U.S. and the Soviet Union had a long period of tension and mistrust called this.
The pilgrims sailed to America on this ship.
What is the Mayflower?
This idea was the belief that America should expand its territory all the way to the Pacific Ocean, and that it was a God-Given right to expand.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
People who made huge fortunes in business during this time, sometimes unfairly, were called this. (Think: Rockefeller, Carnegie)
What are Robber Barons (or Captains of Industry)?
This period in the 1920s was known for jazz music, flappers, and new technologies like radio.
What are the Roaring Twenties?
This movement in the 1950s and 1960s worked to end segregation and gain equal rights for African Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This group of laws, passed by the British, taxed paper goods and tea in the colonies, making colonists very angry.
What are the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts?
President Andrew Jackson forced Native American tribes, like the Cherokee, to move west on this difficult journey.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This document, issued by President Lincoln, declared that enslaved people in the Confederate states were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This movement worked to solve problems caused by industrialization and corruption, like child labor and unsafe food.
What is the Progressive Era?
This severe economic downturn in the 1930s led to widespread unemployment and poverty.
What is the Great Depression?
This Supreme Court case in 1954 said that "separate but equal" schools were unconstitutional, helping to end school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This agreement at the Constitutional Convention created two houses in Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is the Great Compromise?
This famous warning from a James Monroe told European countries to stay out of the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This amendment to the Constitution officially ended slavery everywhere in the United States. (Hint :Either the 13th, 14th, or 15th)
What is the 13th amendment?
The U.S. wanted to gain more land and influence around the world during this period, sometimes by taking over smaller countries.
What is Imperialism?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs to help the country recover from the Great Depression were called this.
What is the New Deal?
During the Cold War, the U.S. fought this war in Southeast Asia, which caused a lot of debate and protest at home.
What is the Vietnam War?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution, which protect individual freedoms, are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This invention by Eli Whitney made it easier to separate cotton seeds, which sadly led to an increase in slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
After the Civil War, this period tried to rebuild the South and give rights to freed slaves.
What is Reconstruction?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The U.S. entered this war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, fighting against Germany, Italy, and Japan.
What is World War II?
This terrible event happened on September 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
What are the 9/11 attacks?