Rise and Rebuild
The name of the era following the Civil War focused on reintegrating Southern states.
What is Reconstruction?
This term describes the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1920s amendment started Prohibition in the U.S.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The U.S. entered World War II after this event on December 7, 1941.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
He opened diplomatic relations with China in 1972 and later resigned due to the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1869 achievement connected the East and West coasts by rail.
What is the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad?
The stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression happened in this year.
What is 1929?
This plan provided economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This former actor and California governor became president in 1981 and promoted supply-side economics.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
The 1890 event that marked the end of Native American armed resistance.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This president introduced the New Deal to combat the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The U.S. fought this war from 1950–1953 to stop the spread of communism in Asia.
What is the Korean War?
This president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and launched the “Great Society” programs.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
He was the steel magnate who embodied the rise of big business during the Gilded Age.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This act gave 160 acres of land to settlers willing to farm it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This environmental disaster in the 1930s devastated the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This controversial war officially ended in 1975 with the fall of Saigon.
What is the Vietnam War?
He famously challenged Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you” in his 1961 inaugural address.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This event marked the end of Reconstruction as federal troops withdrew from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877? (Or the election of Rutherford B Hayes?)
He led the U.S. 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn—and lost.
Who is George Armstrong Custer?
This New Deal program provided jobs through public works projects like building roads and parks.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
This 1962 event brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This president sent federal troops to enforce school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?