American Identity
According to this idea, the U.S. was destined by God to take all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
American fears of Communism led to these "witch hunts" where it was almost impossible to prove you were innocent.
What are the Red Scares/McCarthyism?
This economic downturn had many more causes but everyone remembers the stock market crash of 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
This movement of African-Americans out of the South had significant impacts on society including the Harlem Renaissance
What is the Great Migration?
The election of Abraham Lincoln directly led to the start of this war.
What is the Civil War?
This Supreme Court decision, among the worst in history, declared that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the U.S.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This "race" was a way for America to compare themselves to the Soviet Union and show how exceptional we are.
What is the Space Race? (will also accept Olympics)
These laws attempted to limit the new rights African Americans gained after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes or Jim Crow laws?
These business leaders developed new industries and built the economy but also made huge personal fortunes on the backs of their workers.
Who are the Robber Barons? (Will also accept any named person or Captains of industry)
This law was the first attempt to limit immigration into the U.S., but only from one region.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1888?
This country was the "evil empire" of the Cold War and was destroyed in part by the U.S. out spending them on military stuff.
Who was the USSR?
These schools were intended to make Native Americans into "Americans" through assimilation, although many used abusive techniques.
What are Native American boarding schools?
The name of the campaign for African American rights that occurred during WWII
What is the Double V Campaign?
This president used his connections in Congress to push through important civil rights laws.
Who is LBJ?
This industrial disaster in NY, and the deaths of over 100 young women, led to changes in working conditions and safety requirements.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Immigration during the late 1800s and early 1900s led to this change in where Americans lived.
What is urbanization?
These two groups were colonists under Britain who had very different views on how Britain was treating them. The losing side mostly moved to Canada.
Who are the Loyalists and the Patriots?
This group was interred (jailed) in camps by the U.S. government during WWII.
Who are Japanese-Americans?
Leaders like Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, and Geronimo led these people in resisting the take over of their land by European Americans
Who are Native Americans?
These acts have come up in current events as a way to limit immigration, but they were actually intended to protect the early republic during the Napoleonic Wars.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This idea contributed to economic booms in the 1920s and the 1950s with increased spending by average workers/families.
What is consumerism? (will accept consumer culture)
This group did not originally immigrate to the U.S., they joined the population when the border moved in 1846.
Who are Mexican-Americans?
This proclamation freed enslaved people only in the Confederate states, areas the president did not control. This also left slavery still in place in the border states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This event during the Vietnam War, where hundreds of Vietnamese women and children were killed, shocked the American public and led to increased questioning of the war.
What was the massacre at My Lai?
These programs, developed to address the issues of the Great Depression, were specifically designed to not help certain Americans and reinforce stereotypes.
This American leader said that establishing political parties was dangerous. We did it anyway right after he left office. Working great so far...
Who was George Washington?
This economic theory (still popular today) is based on the idea of reducing taxes and regulations to inject more money into the economy.
What is Reaganomics?
This immigration law has been called the most racist and led to more deaths during WWII.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924
This time period, mostly led by President Grant and the Radical Republicans, showed what a truly equal America could be with African Americans serving in Congress, state and local government. Then it ended with a disputed presidential election.
What is Reconstruction?
During this war, in an American colony, American soldiers were remembered for their brutality and killing of civilians in retaliation for American deaths
What is the Philippine American War?