Transcript Who Am I?

Who or What am I?
Which War Am I?
• The Seven Years’ War lasted from 1756 to 1763,
forming a chapter in the imperial struggle between
Britain and France
• In the early 1750s, France’s expansion into the Ohio
River valley repeatedly brought it into conflict with
the claims of the British colonies, especially Virginia.
French and Indian War
Which Rebellion Am I?
• A popular revolt in colonial Virginia in 1676.
• High taxes, low prices for tobacco, and
resentment against special privileges given
those close to the governor
Bacon’s Rebellion
Which Battle Am I?
• This battle kicked off the American Revolutionary War (177583).
• On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops
marched from Boston to nearby city in order to seize an arms
cache.
• Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and
colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the
Redcoat column.
Lexington and Concord
Which Battle Am I?
•Last battle of the American Revolution.
Battle of Yorktown
Which Rebellion Am I?
• The name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American
farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and
judgments for debt.
• Although farmers took up arms in states from New Hampshire to
South Carolina, the rebellion was most serious in Massachusetts,
where bad harvests, economic depression, and high taxes
threatened farmers with the loss of their farms.
• The rebellion took its name from its symbolic leader, a former
captain in the Continental army.
Shay’s Rebellion
Which Rebellion Am I?
• The United States took on the greatest naval power
in the world, Great Britain.
• Causes of the war included British attempts to
restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of
American seamen and America’s desire to expand its
territory.
War of 1812
Which War Am I?
• This battle marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on
foreign soil.
• President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a
“manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific
Ocean.
• A border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting and
was followed by a series of U.S. victories. When the dust cleared,
the USA won present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and
New Mexico.
Mexican- American War
Which War Am I?
•America’s bloodiest clash, which pitted
the Union against the Confederate
States of America and resulted in the
death of more than 620,000, with
millions more injured.
Civil War
Which War Am I?
• Spain’s brutally repressive measures to halt the rebellion
were graphically portrayed for the U.S. public by several
sensational newspapers, and American sympathy for the
rebels rose.
• The growing popular demand for U.S. intervention became
an insistent chorus after the unexplained sinking in Havana
harbor of the battleship USS Maine
Spanish American War
Which War Am I?
• The world’s first global conflict, the “Great War”
pitted the Central Powers of Germany, AustriaHungary and the Ottoman Empire against the Allied
forces of Great Britain, the United States, France,
Russia, Italy and Japan.
• The introduction of modern technology to warfare
resulted in unprecedented carnage and destruction,
with more than 9 million soldiers killed by the end of
the war in November 1918.
World War I
Who Am I?
•I “discovered” America.
Christopher Columbus
Who Am I?
•I founded the lost
colony of Roanoke.
Walter Raleigh
Who Am I?
•I wrote the sermon “Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God”.
Jonathan Edwards
Who Am I?
•I’m a philosopher that believed all
people have a right to life, liberty,
and property; stated the
government is "created by the
people for the people"
John Locke
Who Am I?
•I was one of the colonials involved in the
Boston Massacre, and when the shooting
started, he was the first to die (an African
American).
•I became a martyr.
Crispus Attucks
Who Am I?
• I am British citizen, who wrote Common Sense,
published on January 1, 1776, to encourage the
colonies to seek independence.
• It spoke out against the unfair treatment of the
colonies by the British government and was
instrumental in turning public opinion in favor
of the Revolution.
Thomas Paine
Who Am I?
•I was the first president of
the United States of
America.
George Washington
Who Am I?
•I was the author of the
Declaration of
Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Who Am I?
•I was the second president of the
United States and a Federalist.
•I was responsible for passing the
Alien and Sedition Acts.
John Adams
Who Am I?
• I was the First Secretary of the Treasury.
• I advocated the creation of a national bank,
assumption of state debts by the federal
government, and a tariff system to pay off the
national debt.
Alexander Hamilton
Who Am I?
•I was one of the greatest of black
abolitionists; escaping from bondage in
1838 at the age of 21.
•I then lectured widely for the cause despite
frequent beatings and threats against my
life; in 1845 I published my classic
autobiography.
Frederick Douglas
Who Am I?
•I was a leading southern politician of the
early nineteenth century.
•I served as vice president under both John
Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson and
then was elected senator from South
Carolina.
John C. Calhoun
Who Am I?
•I emancipated the slaves.
•I was the
th
16
president.
Abraham Lincoln
Who Am I?
•I was the commander
of the Confederate
Army.
Robert E. Lee
Who Am I?
•I was the commander
of the Union Army.
Uyless S. Grant
Who Am I?
•I was a lecturer for women's rights.
•I was a strong woman who believed
that men and women were equal. I
fought for her rights even though
people objected.
Susan B. Anthony
Who Am I?
•I was the robber baron who
controlled the banking industry.
JP Morgan
Who Am I?
•I was the robber baron who
controlled the steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
Who Am I?
•I was the robber baron who
controlled the oil industry.
John D. Rockefeller
Who Am I?
•I was responsible for the formation
of one of the first labor unions, the
American Federation of Labor,
which worked on getting people
better hours and better wages.
Samuel Gompers
Who Am I?
•I was an American orator and politician
from Nebraska, and a dominant force in
the populist wing of the Democratic Party,
who ran in the 1896 presidential race.
•I was the prosecuting attorney in the
Scopes Monkey Trial.
William Jennings Bryan
Who Am I?
•I founded the Hull Houses
in Chicago.
Jane Addams
Who Am I?
•I’m a New York City political
leader, who in the late 1860s
ran a network of corrupt city
officials.
Boss Tweed
Who Am I?
•I’m a muckraker during the progressive era
that wrote a book on how many lynching
were taking place.
•I’m a leader in the Anti-Lynching crusade.
Ida B. Wells
Who Am I?
•I am a muckraker that
wrote the Jungle.
Upton Sinclair
Who Am I?
•I was an ex slave that became a
teacher.
Booker T. Washington
Who Am I?
•I founded the N.A.A.C.P.
W.E.B. DuBois
Who Am I?
•I stressed the importance of
naval power as a factor in the
rise of the British Empire.
Alfred Thayer Mahn
Who Am I?
•I was president during World
War I.
•I created a plan that had 14
Points.
Woodrow Wilson
Who Am I?
•I was the leader of the Rough Riders
•I’m an environmentalist
•I became president and created the Bull
Moose Party in the Election of 1912.
Theodore Roosevelt
Who Am I?
•I used the assembly line to
make cars faster.
•My first car was the Model T.
Henry Ford
Who Am I?
•I was the first person to fly solo
across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Lindbergh
Who Am I?
•I was president when the Great
Depression started on October
29, 1929.
Herbert Hoover