Civil War
Turn of the Century
Great Depression
World War II
Anything
100
Who was elected president in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
100
Inventor of the electric light bulb.
Thomas Edison
100
Elected President in 1932 and gave America hope by quoting “the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
100
Japanese Empire provoked the United States to war by attacking
Pearl Harbor
100
The most famous mobster in United States history is
Al Capone
200
General Lee surrendered his army at
Appomattox Court House
200
The two cities that immigrants primarily moved to were
New York/Chicago
200
One cause of the Great Depression was companies made too much ________________ & when there was not enough ___________________.
Supply, Demand
200
The ______________ was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki leading to Japan’s surrender
Atomic Bomb
200
A way for slaves to escape from slavery secretly is the
Underground Railroad
300
Secession means to
Withdraw, or leave the Union
300
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary started
World War I
300
Roosevelt’s plan to bring the country out of the depression was called
New Deal
300
Important Allied invasion of Normandy, France on June 6th, 1944.
D-Day
300
The _______ Amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States in 1919.
19th
400
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do
Freeing slaves in all U.S.Territory
400
Upton Sinclair wrote a novel in 1906 about the American meatpacking industry called
The Jungle
400
In an effort to boost the economy, President Roosevelt approved the construction of this, to harness the power of the Colorado River.
Hoover Dam
400
The alliance between the United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union, and France was called the
Allied Powers
400
Many Americans _____________ materials so all could be used for the war effort.
Rationed
500
The 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments are usually called the
The Civil War Amendments
500
Soldiers hid in these to protect themselves from bullets and cannon fire during World War I.
trenches
500
Over farming and drought caused massive _______________ in the Great Plains that destroyed millions of acres of crops.
Dust Storms
500
Camps where the United States forced Japanese Americans to live during the war.
Japanese Internment
500
Mistrust between Communist countries and the United States will lead to the __________________ following World War II.
Cold War
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