American Revolution & Early Republic
This document officially declared the colonies' independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The issue that most divided the North and South before the Civil War.
What is slavery?
The decade known for jazz music, flappers, and economic prosperity.
What are the Roaring Twenties?
This secret message from Germany promised Mexico the return of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if it joined the war against the United States.
What was the Zimmermann Note (Zimmermann Telegram)?
The rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II
What is the Cold War?
Who was the first president of the United States?
The first President of the United States George Washington
The President who led the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The event in 1929 that marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
Germany's policy of sinking enemy and neutral ships without warning helped push the United States into World War I.
What was unrestricted submarine warfare?
The policy designed to stop and contain the spread of communism.
What is Containment?
This purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This proclamation declared enslaved people in Confederate states free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
President Franklin Roosevelt's program to help Americans during the Depression.
What is the New Deal?
What organization was created after World War II to promote international peace?
What is the United Nations?
This event nearly led to nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union due to missiles being placed closer to the US
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This policy warned Europe to stay out of the Americas
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
These amendments ended slavery and granted citizenship and voting rights.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Which amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920?
What is the 19th Amendment?
This surprise Japanese attack on a U.S. naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, brought the United States into World War II.
What was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, changed U.S. foreign policy and led to the War on Terror.
What are the September 11 attacks (9/11)?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt.
What is Reconstruction?
Americans struggling during the Great Depression were often called this by FDR.
Who were the Forgotten Men?
The United States passed this law in 1917 to punish anti-war speech, protests, or actions during World War I.
What is the Espionage Act (or Sedition Act of 1918)?
This political scandal involved a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
What is the Watergate Scandal?