Reconstruction
Established by Congress in 1865, this agency provided food, medical care, and schools for formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
The 18th Amendment began this era, which made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol illegal.
What is Prohibition?
The Year the Stock Market Crashed in October beginning the Great Depression.
What is 1929?
This river separates North and South during the Civil War and gave its name to the Union Army in the east.
What is the Potomac River?
The Messenger God in Greek Mythology.
Who is Hermes
This amendment stated that all American were equal under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This event, which led to the deaths of hundreds of young women at a New York factory, led to signficant changes to workplace safety.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
The President of the United States at the start of the Depression who gave his name to shanty towns in major US cities.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
The Badlands, a national park, and the traditional land of various Sioux tribes, is located in this state.
What is South Dakota?
A Greek Religious Organization dedicated to the worship of a particular God. An word with a disturbingly different meaning in English!
What is a cult?
This deal ended Reconstruction while allowing R. B. Hayes to serve as President of the United States.
What is the compromise of 1877?
This 'muckraker' wrote The Jungle, exposing the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
When FDR stated, "Today is a day that will live in infamy" he was referring this this event.
What was the Battle of Pearl Harbor?
This river forms the border between Oregon and Washington and takes it name, like many American places, from an early nickname for the United States.
What is the Columbia River?
A Chinese explorer of Muslim origins who sailed through the Indian Ocean during the Ming Dynasty.
Who was Zheng He?
He was the industrialist who dominated the steel industry and later became a famous philanthropist, giving away much of his fortune to build libraries.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This African American reformer and journalist led an anti-lynching crusade and fought for women's suffrage.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
The United States Army suffered immense losses during this battle, fought in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium in 1944.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
These two states have populations less than Washington DC, despite being vastly larger geographically.
What are Vermont and Wyoming?
His Hajj pilgrimage created a splash of wealth as it entered Cairo during the 1200s CE.
Who was Mansa Musa?
Located in New Jersey, in the New York Harbor, this was the primary processing center for millions of European immigrants arriving in the United States starting in 1892.
What was Ellis Island?
The 18th Amendment, created a legal basis of this previously unconstitutional tax.
What is the income tax?
This New England State celebrates VJ Day, (Victory over Japan Day) with fireworks over the Narragansett Bay?
What is Rhode Island?
This city, the oldest European settlement in the United States, is located in this southern state, joined the Union as a territory in 1819 and became a state in 1845.
What is Florida?
The Arabic name for Spain. Still used as a regional name for southern Spain.
What is Al Andalus?