Social movements
This 1960s movement sought equality for African Americans.
What is the Civil Rights movement?
The United States entered World War II after the 1941 attack on this naval base.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This political scandal led to the resignation of President Nixon.
What is Watergate?
This facility, located off the coast of New York City, processed many immigrants in the early 20th century.
What is Ellis Island?
This event triggered the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
This canal, completed in 1914, connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
This Progressive Era reformer opened Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.
Who is Jane Addams?
The Tet Offensive occurred during this controversial Cold War Era war?
What is Vietnam?
This compromise during the Constitutional Convention led to a bicameral legislature.
What is the Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise)?
This term refers to a person who is forced to leave their country due to war, persecution, or disaster.
What is a refugee?
This economic theory advocates minimal government interference in business.
What is laissez-faire?
This state has the distinction of being the northernmost.
What is Alaska?
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring helped spark this movement.
What is the environmental movement?
This battle, the bloodiest in American history, is generally regarded as the turning point in the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
This term refers to drawing voting district lines to favor one political party.
What is gerrymandering?
This 1882 law was the first US law to ban immigration from a particular Asian nation.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This term describes a prolonged period of high inflation and little economic growth.
What is stagflation?
This river is the longest in the US.
What is the Missouri River?
The "Long Walk" was a forced migration endured by this Native American tribe.
Who are the Navajos?
The 1990-91 Gulf War was triggered by Iraq’s invasion of this country.
What is Kuwait?
The Federalist Papers supported ratification of the US Constitution and were written by James Madison, John Jay, and this man.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
DACA is a US immigration policy that protects these particular types of individuals from deportation.
What are children?
This term refers to the total value of goods and services produced within a country in one year.
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
This state contains the point that is the geographic center of the continental US.
What is Kansas?
This 1969 event at a New York City bar is often cited as the catalyst for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
What is Stonewall?
This 19th-century war helped Japan emerge as a global power after defeating Russia.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
These often-paired 1798 laws allowed the US to deport non-citizens and made it harder for immigrants to vote.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This facility, located off the West Coast, was an immigration center for immigrants from the Far East for decades in the 20th century.
What is Angel Island?
This 18th-century economist is known as the "father of capitalism" and wrote The Wealth of Nations.
Who is Adam Smith?
This is the geographic name given to a range of mountains that separate vast areas of land: examples for the US would be the Appalachians and the Rockies.
What is the continental divide?