US History

What is in this deck

With this deck you learn American history as dates with consequences: the founding documents, the road to the Civil War, Reconstruction and the civil rights era.

A date on its own is a quiz answer. A date with its consequence is history, and that is what these cards carry.

80 cards from Jamestown to the present: what the Articles of Confederation could not do and why that mattered, what the Three-Fifths Compromise actually bought, why Antietam decided the timing of the Emancipation Proclamation, what ended Reconstruction and what replaced it, and which amendment has been used most in court.

Where the record is ugly it says so plainly: the Trail of Tears proceeded after the Supreme Court had ruled the other way, and Social Security excluded the workers who most needed it. A deck that leaves those out teaches the wrong country.

The categories decide what comes up: start with “Civil War” alone and add the rest when you are ready.

What you learn

• Founding documents and what each one settled
• The road to the Civil War, compromise by compromise
• Reconstruction, its collapse and Jim Crow
• Depression, two wars and the Cold War
• Civil rights, and which laws actually changed the vote

The categories

14 categories sort the 80 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.

1. Civil War
2. Civil rights
3. Cold War
4. Colonial
5. Depression and war
6. Early republic
7. Expansion
8. Founding
9. Government
10. Industrial era
11. Modern era
12. Reconstruction
13. Revolution
14. Sectional crisis

Learning with Qardbox

You see a card, you think, you turn it over and say whether you knew it. A round asks nothing more of you, and how the app works out the next date from that is on the page about FSRS-6.

What sits comes back less often, what wobbles comes back soon. You set a daily goal, and when nothing is due the app tells you exactly that instead of inventing work for you. How a round goes is shown on the learning page.

Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no ads. After the purchase the deck sits in your library like any other subject and can be studied, reordered and extended just like your own.

What it costs, and what it doesn’t

Qardbox itself costs nothing, and it stays that way. Every function is there from the start, with no subscription, no ads and no tiers; what that rests on is on the page about what it costs.

Your own cards stay unlimited, and decks from friends or from the family you read in without a limit, from a file as well. You do not need this deck in order to learn with Qardbox.

It is a shortcut: 80 checked cards for €0.99, once, with Family Sharing. The work you would otherwise do is already done. The App Store shows the price in your currency.