Eras Quiz

Question 1

Pre-Colombian 1492-1607

Answer 1

Colombian exchange, Portugal is first to expand, lost colony of Roanoke

Question 2

Colonial Era 1607-1763

Answer 2

Mercantilism was big, Bacon’s rebellion, salutary neglect ends after French-Indian War

Question 3

Revolutionary 1763-1783

Answer 3

Declaration of Independence, Lexington was first battle, Thomas Paine and Common Sense

Question 4

Young Republic 1783-1812

Answer 4

Washington’s Farewell Address, Midnight Appointments, Marbury v. Madison, Alien and Sedition Acts, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Question 5

War of 1812-> Nationalism 1812-1828

Answer 5

Market Revolution, Era of Good Feelings, Monroe Doctrine

Question 6

Age of Jackson 1828-1840

Answer 6

Democrat-Republican party splits into Whigs and Jacksoninan Democrats, corrupt bargain, universal white male suffrage

Question 7

Manifest Destiny 1840’s

Answer 7

54 40 or Fight, Mexican Cession, Texas War for Independence

Question 8

Sectionalism 1820; 1850-1861

Answer 8

Dred Scott v. Sanford, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Compromise of 1850

Question 9

Civil War 1861-1865

Answer 9

Lincoln’s inauguration, Gettysburg, union blockade

Question 10

Reconstruction 1865-1877

Answer 10

13th-15th Amendments, Black Codes, sharecropping

Question 11

Gilded Age, Industrialization Late 1800s

Answer 11

Immigration (old immigrants), labour unions, tenements

Question 12

Populists -> Progressives 1892-1896; 1900-1920

Answer 12

William Jennings Bryan and “Cross of Gold,” Square Deal, Jane Addams and Hull House

Question 13

Imperialism 1898-1914

Answer 13

Turner Thesis, Spanish-American War, carry a big stick policy

Question 14

WW1 1917-1918

Answer 14

Zimmerman telegram, great migration, League of Nations

Question 15

Roaring ‘20’s 1920’s

Answer 15

Return to Normalcy, flappers, republicanism

Question 16

Great Depression and New Deal 1929-1938

Answer 16

First New Deal, stock market crash, court packing

Question 17

WW2 1941-1945

Answer 17

Pearl Harbour, Manhattan Project, United Nations

Question 18

Cold War (1950’s)

Answer 18

Brown v. Board, Red Scare/Joe McCarthy, containment

Question 19

Cold War (1960’s)

Answer 19

Great Society, Vietnam, Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 20

Cold War (1970’s)

Answer 20

Detente, sunbelt, end of Vietnam

Question 21

Modern Rise of Conservatism 1980’s

Answer 21

Reagan, religious right, fall of Berlin Wall

Question 22

War on Terrorism/Globalization 2001-Present

Answer 22

9/11, end of USSR, Great Recession