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This economic downturn is considered the worst that has happened in the industrialized world.
What is The Great Depression?
These laws, enforced in the south, kept African Americans oppressed in society after slavery was abolished?
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This president abolished slavery with the 13th amendment.
Who is my boy, Abraham Lincoln?
This was the first anti-immigration party in the mid-1800s.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This document was relatively useless in the making of America before the Constitution because it failed to unify the colonies and create a strong federal government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This court case (1896) ruled blacks and whites, "separate but equal."
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This president helped create national parks and is considered the "conservationist president".
Who is Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt?
This group of immigrants, who often worked on railroads and in mines, were discriminated against by an act disallowing them from immigrating to America.
Who are the Chinese?
She was the first woman to win the Nobel peace prize and co-founded the most influential settlement house of the 19th century.
Who is James Addams?
This country sold the U.S. Alaska for $0.02 an acre.
Who is Russia?
She was known as the "mother of the modern day civil rights movement."
Who is Rosa Parks?
This president was formally a Union general in the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Despite a lack of immigrants entering America during World War I, Northern cities experienced a population surge due to this major African American movement.
What is The Great Migration?
She was the "conductor" of the underground railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This pamphlet was written by Thomas Paine to convince colonists that it was time to become independent from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
This North Carolina town was the location of the Woolworth sit-in that took place in 1960.
What is Greensboro?
This president, who was the first man to die in office, ran as the first Whig candidate.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This immigration inspection station established in the late 19th century was popular for hosting oyster roasts.
What is Ellis Island?
This woman, born in 1744, was one of only two women to have been both a wife and a mother to two U.S. presidents.
Who is Abigail Adams?
This is the small town in Virginia where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
The peaceful protest, led by MLK, from Selma to Mongomery was also known as this.
What is Bloody Sunday?
This president was the first in office to openly support civil rights for African Americans.
Who is Warren Harding?
Which group of people began immigrating to America, specifically Pennsylvania, due to heavy taxation and laws of primogeniture in their home country?
Who are German immigrants?
Harriet Beecher Stowe was famous for writing this influential novel?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?