American Revolution
A partnership between two counties or groups.
What is an alliance?
A change made to the Constitution.
What is an Amendment?
Amendment that made slavery unconstitutional in the United States at the end of the Civil War.
What is the 13th Amendment?
A railroad that crosses the United States. The U.S. finished building one in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
When a company wipes out its competitors and controls an industry. This allows for higher prices.
What is a Monopoly?
These are reasons that an immigrant leaves their country.
What is a push factor?
A cartoon drawing of a tall, White man with a beard usually wearing red, white and blue. He is meant to represent the U.S. Government.
What is Uncle Sam?
Creating more of a product than is needed or wanted.
What is overproduction?
An American naval base in Hawaii that was hit by a Japanese surprise attack on December 7, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Mr. Campbell used to teach this subject.
What is Science?
To refuse to buy items in order to protest certain actions/to force terms.
What is boycott?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The name chosen by the 11 Southern states that left the Union led by President Jefferson Davis.
What is the Confederacy?
What is the Confederate States of America?
Spanish or Mexican cowhand/cowboy who taught the White cowhands the skills of raising cattle and horses.
What is Vaqueros?
Groups formed by workers to gain power so they can better their working conditions, often done through strikes.
What is a Union?
These are reasons that an immigrant wants to move into a new country.
What is a pull factor?
Not taking sides in a conflict.
What is neutrality?
What is to remain neutral?
Area in the Southern Plains of farms that were damaged by drought and wind that led to large dust storms in the early 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Britain, France, Soviet Union and other countries. The side the U.S. joins.
What is the Allied Powers?
Mr. Campbell coaches these two sports.
What are soccer and track?
An American colonist who remained loyal to Great Britain during the revolution.
What is a loyalist?
Branch that judges the laws. Includes the Supreme Court.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Another name for the United States and the side of the Northern States in the Civil War.
What is the Union?
Area of flat land between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains. It is good for farming.
What is the Great Plains?
Places where workers labored long hours, under poor conditions, for low pay.
What is a sweatshop?
The right of people to vote. Women fought for this in the 1900's
What is suffrage?
The spread of information through the media designed to influence people’s opinions.
What is propaganda?
Believing that stock prices were going to keep going up so people borrowed money to buy stock.
What is speculation?
Germany, Italy, Japan and other countries that the U.S. fought against.
Mr. Campbell is this tall.
What is 6'3"?
An American Colonist who favored American Independence.
What is a patriot?
Branch that enforces the laws. Includes the President and Vice President.
What is the Executive Branch?
The forced movement of over 10 million Africans from their homes in Africa to the Americas.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
This law offered 160 acres of land free to those who agreed to live on and improve the land for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
A government document giving an inventor the right to control the sale of their invention.
What is a patent?
The racist belief that people who were born in the U.S. are better than immigrants.
What is Nativism?
What is a Nativist?
Belief that your country or group is better than all others and should be an independent nation.
What is Nationalism?
President Roosevelt’s plan for the government to help the economy.
What is the New Deal?
A political belief of extreme nationalism often linked with racism.
What is Fascism?
Mr. Campbell is this old.
What is 28?
A military force made up of ordinary citizens that are trained to fight in emergencies.
What is a Militia?
Branch that writes the laws. Includes Congress and the Senate.
What is the Legislative Branch?
An order given by Lincoln on January 1, 1863 freeing the slaves only in the Southern states that had seceded.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A town that has sudden growth in their economy and population, because of a new mine nearby.
What is a Boomtown?
All the people and activities involved in making a product or providing a service.
What is an industry?
This is the time period when alcohol was illegal in the United States from 1920 - 1933.
The agreement to end World War I. It punished Germany with taking land and making them pay large amounts of money.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Areas where homeless people lived in shacks. Named after President Hoover who felt the government shouldn't get too involved.
What is Hoovervilles?
A Japanese American who refused to go to the Internment Camps. His court case went to the Supreme Court and he lost.
Who is Fred Korematsu?
Mr. Campbell works at one of these in the summer.
What is a summer camp?