The goal is to identify the single most important event in American history.   Fill out the brackets as you would for a sports tournament.  At the end “play off” the winner from the first page with winner of the second page to identify your tournament champion

 

 

13th amendment (slavery)

          vs                          ________________

Spanish/American war

                                      vs                          _______________

Opening of Oregon Trail

          vs                          ------------------------

Cal. Gold Rush

                                                                                      vs                          _________

Declaration of Independence

          vs.                         --------------------------

War of 1812

                                                vs                          _________________   

Louisiana Purchase

          vs                          ---------------------------

New Deal

 

                                                                                                                   vs                          __________

16th amendment (income tax)

          vs                          ________________

Baby Boom of the 1950’s

                                                vs                          ___________________

G I Bill (post WWII)

          vs                          ________________

JFK Assassination

                                                                                      vs                          _________

Apollo 11

          vs                          _________________

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

                                                vs                          ____________________

Watergate

          vs.                         __________________

Cuban Missile Crisis

 

 

                                                                                                                                                vs                          _________

 

19th amendment (women’s suffrage)

          vs                                   __________

Mexican American War

                                                          vs                ___________

settlement of Jamestown

          vs                                   ___________

ratification of Bill of Rights

                                                                                      vs                _____________

Articles of Confederation approved

          vs                                   ____________

Pearl Harbor bombed

                                                          vs                ______________

Founding of Plymouth

          vs                                   ____________

D-Day, June 6, 1944

                            

                                                                                                                   vs                          __________

 

Constitution ratified

          vs                                   ___________

Battle of Saratoga

                                                          vs                __________________

Washington elected

          vs.                                   ____________

Civil Rights Act Passed

                                                                                      vs                ______________

Skirmish at Concord                 

          vs                                   ____________

End of Cold War

                                                          vs                ______________________

Lewis and Clark Expedition

          vs                                   _____________

Civil War/War Between the States