This document begins with the words “We the People.”
Constitution
This branch of government makes laws.
Legislative Branch
This is the system used to elect the U.S. president.
Electoral College
This is the right to vote.
Suffrage
This is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
This president led the Union during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
This purchase doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
This president promoted Reaganomics.
Ronald Reagan
This belief said the United States was meant to expand west.
Manifest Destiny
This event brought the United States into World War II.
Pearl Harbor
This event happened on September 11, 2001.
9/11 terrorist attacks
This president became the first African American president.
Barack Obama
This movement worked to end slavery.
Abolition Movement
This law protected voting rights in 1965.
Voting Rights Act
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
This agreement linked the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
NAFTA or USMCA
This amendment ended slavery.
13th Amendment
This law expanded access to health insurance during Obama’s presidency.
Affordable Care Act
This economic crisis began in 2008.
Great Recession / Financial Crisis
This scandal involved secret weapons sales to Iran and support for rebels in Nicaragua.
Iran-Contra Affair
This Supreme Court case ended “separate but equal” in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
This scandal caused President Nixon to resign.
Watergate
This Soviet leader introduced glasnost and perestroika.
Mikhail Gorbachev
This president was impeached but acquitted by the Senate in the 1990s.
Bill Clinton
How many states do we have in the United States
50