The document was written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 that kicked off the Revolutionary War and states that we believe in "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
The two sides fighting against one another for states' rights in the Civil War.
What are the Union and the Confederacy?
100
The period following the Civil War in the south, marked by efforts to rebuild the south and reintegrate it into the United States.
What is Reconstruction?
100
The process of becoming city-like, no longer rural.
What is urbanization?
100
The type of warfare that is iconic of WWI.
What is trench warfare?
200
The document composed by Founding Fathers in 1789 that outlines government branches and functions and begins, "We the people..."
What is The Constitution?
200
The document that frees the slaves in 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
The racist terrorist organization that opposed equal rights for blacks.
What is the KKK?
200
The process of moving from one's native land to settle in a new country as one's home, seeking opportunity and escaping poverty, persecution and/or wars.
What is immigration?
200
The inciting incident, or spark, that kicks off WWI.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princep?
300
The First 10 Amendments to the Constitution that protect individual rights, ratified in 1791.
What is The Bill of Rights?
300
Lincoln's 1863 speech honoring the land where longest battle of the Civil War was fought, killing an estimated 51,000 men.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
300
The three major occupations that entice people to move westward.
What are mining, farming and ranching?
300
The process of creating factories and centers for making products.
What is industrialization?
300
The two major reasons that force the United States to get involved in WWI.
What are the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram?
400
The three amendments that abolish slavery, make black people citizens, and grant black men the right to vote.
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, respectively.
400
Lincoln's effort to encourage inidividuals to move west, granting pioneers 160 acres of land and 5 years to settle their own pieces of land.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
400
The major technology that helps us to settle and expand across the nation.
What is the railroad?
400
The process of freeing someone from slavery?
What is emancipation?
400
The four M.A.I.N. causes of WWI.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism?
500
The three major branches and functions of government in relation to laws.
What are the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches that enforce, create and intepret laws, respectively.
500
The act that officially ends of the Civil War.
What is the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appotmattox courthouse in 1865?
500
The idea that white Americans have the God-given right and fate to expand across the country and make it all part of the USA, even if we displace Native Americans along the way.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
The process of moving over vast distances with the intent to settle temporarily or permanently.
What is migration?
500
The document that officially ends WWI, although it was rejected by the United States, because they felt it was too harsh on Germany.