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The man that led the Confederate Army
Who was Robert E Lee
Americans were really freaked out when they saw this sailing through the sky in the 1950s.
What is Sputnik?
What is Transcendentalism?
This General came up with the idea to march across open field towards the confederate high ground, entrenched behind a wall, losing a large portion of his army and being disgraced.
Who was General Ambrose Burnsides?
Al Capone went to jail for
What is Tax Evasion?
Arrested for sitting on a bus
Who is Rosa Parks?
The bloodiest single day in American history
What is Antietam?
The Korean War was an example of this type of war.
What is a proxy/surrogate war?
Brown vs. Board of Education had to do with what civil rights issue?
What is segregation of schools?
A political movement that sought the regulation of business and labor through government action, and in order to end corruption.
What is Progressivism?
Theodore Roosevelt became famous for leading this cavalry unit?
Who are the Rough Riders?
What is segregation that is not by law
What is De Facto?
Led to the White House being burned down
What was the War of 1812?
This was the opposite alliance to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This Amendment guarantees the right to vote for those regardless of race, class, or former state of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The 18th Amendment's intent was
Daily Double
What is Prohibition?
The laws passed by the Southern States with the express intent to limit African-American freedoms
What were Black Codes?
This court case created "separate but equal" being legal
What was Plessy v Fergusson
This action by Germany got us officially into World War I.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
The massive failure by JFK that was planned by Eisenhower
What was the Bay of the Pigs Incident?
This group of people were excluded from immigrating to America after 1882.
Who are the Chinese?
The building of the Panama Canal is an example of this type of diplomacy.
The longest tenured president was
Who was F.D.R.?
The name of the boy that was murdered and became a national focus of racism
Who was Emit Till
The invasion of Normandy was called
What was D-Day?
As a compromise to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US promised to take down missiles in this country.
What is Turkey?
The mass spread of this technology allowed/forced people to work later into the night
What is electricity?
This action created a situation that was a potentially a major reason Reconstruction failed after the Civil War
What is the assassination of President Lincoln?
Henry David Thoreau's most famous written work was
What is "Walden"?
Breaking the law or creating a disturbance to bring attention to a cause
What is Civil Disobedience?