War! What is it good for?
The place where the first shots were fired in the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The name for religious figures who wanted to break entirely from the Church of England in the 1600s.
Who are the Separatists?
The inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The road used by many travellers hoping to travel by wagon to the west coast.
What is the Oregon Trail?
The amendment central to the case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Before the US entered World War 2, they provided weapons and armor to the Allies through this law.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
The founding governor of Rhode Island who promoted religious toleration.
Who is Roger Williams?
This process led to the popularity of steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
The region where the French and Indian War began.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
The case that defended the US right to form a national bank.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
The document that revealed US failures in Vietnam.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
The figure who took over the LDS Church after its founder, Joseph Smith, was killed.
Who is Brigham Young?
The regulatory body founded under Franklin D. Roosevelt with the goal of protecting labor unions.
What is the National Labor Relations Board?
The region of America where millions of Americans moved to when highways were constructed.
What is the Sun Belt?
What is the minimum wage?
The rebellion in this state encouraged Harry Truman to announce his policy of containment toward the Soviet Union.
What is Greece?
The writer of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God who led the First Great Awakening.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
What is the Anthracite Coal Strike?
This river is critical to irrigation of western farms.
What is the Colorado River?
The clause that justifies Congressional laws banning segregation in private businesses.
What is the Commerce Clause?
Following the Mexican War this Senator issued a proviso demanding that the US not allow slavery into its newly seized territories.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The prominent political figure who defended the State of Tennessee in the state's efforts to ban evolution in the classroom.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
The theory articulated during the Progressive Era that is focused on managing industrial processes in efficient ways that emphasize de-skilling of workers and repetition of tasks.
What is scientific management? (AKA Taylorism)
The western region where the American Indian Movement organized a rebellion against corrupt Bureau of Land Management leaders in the 1970s.
What is the Wounded Knee Reservation?
The Amendment used by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to justify nullification of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
What is the 10th Amendment?