United States
This U.S. Senator from Massachusetts was nearly killed on the Senate floor in 1856 after giving an anti-slavery speech.
Who is Charles Sumner?
This 1620 agreement was signed by Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower to establish self-government in their new colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This North African region was effectively controlled by Britain after 1882, even though it remained nominally part of the Ottoman Empire?
What is Egypt?
This famous river runs through London and has been Central to British trade and history for centuries.
What is the River Thames?
This ancient civilization built pyramids as tombs for pharaohs along the Nile River.
What is Ancient Egypt?
This 1854 law allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery by popular sovereignty, effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This English settlement founded in 1607 is widely considered the first permanent English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This 1884-1885 meeting of European powers divided most of Africa among themselves without African representation.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This 1215 document forced King John to accept that the monarchy's power was not absolute and is considered a foundation of constitutional government.
What is the Magna Carta?
This 1776 document declared the 13 American colonies independent from Britian.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
In 1856, this Representative from South Carolina brutally attacked the Senator from Massachusetts on the Senate floor with a cane after the Senator's "Crime Against Kansas" speech
Who was Preston Brooks?
This failed English colony, led by John White, mysteriously disappeared and is remembered as the "Lost Colony."
What is Roanoke Colony?
This British Imperialist and businessman helped expand British control in southern Africa and gave his name to two territories, Rhodesia and Rhodesia's successor states.
Who is Cecil Rhodes?
**Double Jeopardy**
This 19th-century era under Queen Victoria saw Britain reach its peak global power and industrial expansion.
What is the Victorian Era?
This 1789-1799 revolution overthrew the French monarchy and led to radical political and social charge in France.
What is the French Revolution?
This violent period of guerrilla warfare in Kansas Territory saw pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces clash repeatedly before the Civil War.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This economic system in Spanish colonies forced Indigenous peoples to provide labor in exchange for supposed protection and Christian instruction.
What is the Encomienda System?
This Central African Territory became personal property y of King Leopold II of Belgium, where millions of Africans were exploited and killed under rubber production policies.
What is the Congo Free State?
This 1688 event removed King James II and established constitutional monarchy under William and Mary without major bloodshed.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This 1815 battle ended Napoleon Bonaparte's rule and marked the final defeat of his imperial ambitions in Europe
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
This proposed 1789 constitutional amendment passed alongside the Bill of Rights, which would regulate the size of the House of Representatives and is technically still pending ratification today due to having no deadline.
What is the Congressional Apportionment Amendment?
This 1494 agreement between Spain and Portugal, brokered by the Catholic Church, divided newly discover lands outside Europe between the two empires.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This 1890 agreement between Britain and Germany rearranged spheres of influence in East Africa and transfered control of Zanzibar-related territories in exchange for a North Sea Island.
What is the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty?
This 1707 political act united the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into a single sovereign state.
What is the Acts of Union 1707?
This 1648 Treaty ended the Thirty Years' War and helped establish the modern concept of state sovereignty in Europe.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?