Famous Americans
Who was the leader of the Continental Army during the American Revolution?
George Washington
it officially ended slavery
13th amendment
Two main political parties in the United States
Democrat and Republican
The number of years did Barack Obama served as President?
8 years
Who was the leader of Germany during WWII?
Adolf Hitler
Which president was known as the "Great Emancipator" who abolished slavery?
Abraham Lincoln
Laws that targeted African Americans in the south were known as?
Jim Crow Laws
What happened to many people during the Great Depression?
lost jobs, savings, homes
when a company controls the market and have no competition it is known as a
Monopoly
Who attacked the US at Pearl Harbor?
Japan
Slave who revolted, killed his master and many others while freeing other slave to join him in the revolt
Nat Turner
What was the name of FDR's economic plan to get the US out of the depression?
New Deal
Name of the Supreme Court case that allowed segregation
Plessy vs Ferguson
What did the US government do to Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Placed in internment camps
Only person to be elected president four times
Franklin D Roosevelt
The main cause of the Civil War was
Slavery
What major world event ended the Great Depression?
World War II
Name of the supreme court case that ended segregation in schools?
Brown vs Board of Education
How did women support the war effort during WWII?
Worked in factories, nurses, secretaries
He was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase and also wrote the constitution.
Thomas Jefferson
This group violently targeted African Americans after the Civil War
KKK
What were the main causes of the Great Depression?
Bank failures, Stock market crash
What did Martin Luther King Jr believe in?
Peace, nonviolent protest, equality
What event officially ended World War II?
US dropped the atomic bombs on Japan