This treaty ended the American Revolution and confirmed American Independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris, 1783?
100
Author of Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine?
100
America joins this war because of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is WWII?
100
This English enlightenment philosopher influenced Thomas Jefferson as he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
100
This compromise settled the issue of counting the slave population by allowing 3 out of every 5 slaves to count for a states population.
What is the three-fifths compromise?
200
This treaty settled the annexation of Texas and gave America the California territory which included the future states of Arizona, and New Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
200
Author of the The History of Standard Oil
Who is Ida Tarbell?
200
America fought Mexico over the border between Mexico and Texas.
What is the Mexican-American War?
200
This French General worked with the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
200
This compromise maintained balance in congress by adding Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state as well as establishing the line of 36'30 to decide future disputes.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
The US Congress rejected the treaty because isolationist members of Congress were fundamentally opposed to the League of Nations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
300
Author of a letter From a Birmingham Jail
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
300
This war was fought primarily because of the British Naval policy of impressment and territorial disputes in the Northwest Territory.
What is the War of 1812?
300
This Al-Qaeda leader orchestrated the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Who is Osama Bin Laden?
300
This act allowed for popular sovereignty to decide if new territories would be a slave territory or free.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
This treaty removed France from North America.
What is the Treaty of Paris, 1763?
400
Author of "How the Other Half Lives"
Who is Jacob Riis?
400
This war was fought to stop the spread of communism after WWII and ended in an Armistice where the 38th parallel divides the nation and is still watched by armed guards today.
What is the Korean War?
400
This German foreign secretary attempted to entice Mexico into attacking the US during WWI.
Who is Arthur Zimmerman/Zimmerman telegram?
400
Also known as the Connecticut Plan, this Compromise two opposing versions of representations in the new government and combined the two plans to create a bi-cameral legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
500
This war resulted in the Treaty of Paris 1898 and gave Cuba their independence and forced Spain to cede Guam and Puerto Rico to the US.
What is the Spanish-American War?
500
Author of Silent Spring
Who is Rachel Carson?
500
This war removed France from North America and lays the groundwork for the British governments taxation of the Colonist.
What is the French and Indian War?
500
This French enlightenment philosopher is most well known for his articulation of separation of powers as a method of limiting governments power.
Who is Baron Charles de Montesquieu?
500
This compromise abolished the slave trade in Washington D.C., made California a free state, and enacted the Fugitive Slave Act.