Constitution
Manifest Destiny
Civil War
Reconstruction
Extra Hard Questions(Events)
100
Guarantees the right to free speech, the freedom of the press, free expression, etc...
What is the First Amendment?
100
In 1819 Secretary of State John Quincy Adams got Spain to approve this treaty. The Spanish agreed to set the limits of their territory at what is now California's northern border and to give up all claims to Oregon.
What is the Adam-Onis Treaty?
100
The main general in charge of the Confederate forces.
What is Robert E. Lee?
100
This term referred to the many Northern whites who moved to the South after the war.
What is a carpetbagger?
100
The conflict that gave the United States independence from Britain.
What is the Revolutionary War?
200
The three branches of government.
What is the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive branches?
200
This famous mission building was the fort of about 180 Texan soldiers. Its walls were smashed during the fight, and here, Davy Crockett and David Bowie died.
What is the Alamo?
200
The bloodiest one-day battle in American history.
What is the Battle at Antietam?
200
This was a loophole so that poor, illiterate white southerners could vote.
What is a grandfather clause?
200
This conflict started when a German dictator and his party, rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination.
What is World War II?
300
Guarantees the right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
300
The group of people searching for gold in California in 1949.
What is the Forty-Niners?
300
The first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
300
This group of people terrorized African Americans and caused much violence and destruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
The state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the East and powers in the West.
What is the Cold War?
400
Protects the right against cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eight Amendment?
400
This treaty gave United States more than 500,000 square miles (1,295,000 sq. km) of territory—what are now the states of California, Nevada, and Utah, as well as most of Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. Mexico accepted the Rio Grande as its border with Texas.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
400
This navy admiral captured Mobile Bay and New Orleans.
Who is David Farragut?
400
This Ohio governor was elected president in 1876.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
400
This movement, led by Communist Chair Mao Zedong, involved purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Maoist thought as the dominant ideology within the Party.
What is the Chinese Cultural Revolution?
500
This amendment prohibited the use of liquor. It was repealed by the 21st Amendment shortly after.
What is the 18th Amendment?
500
The leader of the Mormons.
What is Joseph Smith?
500
This is the place Lee surrendered to the Union.
What is Appomattox Court House?
500
This is the year that the Plessy vs. Ferguson case took place.
What is 1896?
500
This conflict started in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918.
What is World War I?
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