The Patriot’s Challenge

Test your knowledge against 250 Years of American Public Finance History.

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Did you know?

The Boston Tea Party was not really about a tea tax increase.

The Tea Act made British tea cheaper but kept the existing tax and gave the British East India Company a special advantage. Colonists saw the issue as more than just price: representation, monopoly power, and governance.

The fight was not over tea. It was over who had the right to govern.

Colonial Era

(1600s - 1763)

 

How did Colonists fund public services before a Government?

New Nation Era

(1783 - 1815)

 

How did the New Nation establish trust and Public Finance?

Civil War Era

(1861 - 1877)

 

How did the Nation keep the Union and fund the War?

Progressive Era

(1900 - 1929)

 

How did Public Finance support Innovation and Diversity?

Post War Era

(1945 - 1968)

 

How did America invest and innovaate after the War to build our future?

Revolutionary Era

(1763 - 1783)

 

How did the Republic finance a War while forming a Government?

Expansion & Reform Era

(1815 - 1880)

 

How does a rapidly growing Nation support expansion and reforms?

Industrial Era

(1876- 1900)

 

How did Public Finance support American Industrial might?

Depression and WWII Era

(1929 - 1945)

 

How did America battle the Great Depression and WWII?

Modern Era

(1968 - Present)

 

How will America support dynamism for the next 250 years?

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