African Americans
Wars
American Identity
Economy
Presidents
100
A violent group that fought for Civil Rights
What is the Black Panthers
100
The one battle that ignited the American Revolution. Here the first shot was fired.
What is Lexington/Concord?
100
A movement in Europe that valued reason and logic
What is the Enlightenment?
100
The type of economic system America adheres to
What is capitalism?
100
The first president of the United States
Who is George Washington?
200
This president's Great Society put Civil Rights at the forefront
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
200
This war resulted in the most American casualties.
What is the Civil War?
200
A series of reforms during the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
200
The president that initiated the ruinous Embargo Act
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
Famous African American who started the NAACP and was an advocate of the "talented tenth"
Who is WEB Du Bois?
300
A military strategy to make the South fight on two fronts; crushing them with the Mississippi River.
What is Anaconda Plan?
300
A term used to describe what the Founders hoped America would be; a government centered around virtue.
What is a virtuous republic?
300
The president that failed to provide for the poor in the Great Depression
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
The president that used his nullification powers to an infamous extent.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
The author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
America's "Splendid Little War"
What is the Spanish-American War?
400
Wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense"
Who is Thomas Paine?
400
An underlying cause of most recessions/depressions in American History
What is overspeculation?
400
The president that did nothing to stop the Civil War in his "lame duck" period.
Who is James Buchanan?
500
A plan to gather sympathy by marching in Birmingham in 1963. From here came shocking imagery that swayed public opinion.
What is Project C?
500
The two cities that were attacked by the atomic bomb by the United States.
What are Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
500
A thirteenth century English document that set the basis for American democracy.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
A system developed by Frederick Taylor that emphasized maximum efficiency in the Gilded Age.
What is scientific management?
500
A president that tried to implement "Dollar Diplomacy"
Who is William Howard Taft?
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