Laws/Compromises
The amendment (and year that it was passed) that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment? (passed in 1920)
The event that caused the US to join World War II.
What are the Attacks on Pearl Harbor? (1941)
President who organized the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The promotion of a widespread fear of the potential rise of communism.
What is the Red Scare?
This prohibited colonists to settle West of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
The difference between free and slave states that started the war.
What was the main reason for the Civil War?
President who led the Trail of Tears.
Who is Andrew Jackson? (elected in 1828)
The woman who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which exposed the harsh conditions of slaves.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Court case that ruled "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Act that offered 160 acres of free land to any citizen who was head of a household.
What is the Homestead Act? (passed in 1862)
What is the Mexican-American War?
Who is Harry S. Truman?
The historians that flew and built the first successful airplane.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
WWI veterans who were seeking early payment of a pension bonus for their service.
What is the Bonus Army?
The acts that Federalists passed that gave the government power to deport or imprison foreign citizens and prosecute critics of the government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts? (passed in 1798)
This war showed that the US was committed to the Monroe Doctrine and the US defense spending increased by 40%.
What is the Korean War? (1950-1953)
Only US president to ever be elected unanimously.
Who is George Washington?
This historian played a key role in ratifying the Constitution, the first Secretary of Treasury, and built a financial foundation.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Period of time in 1962 in which the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba to annoy and scare the United States.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis? (1962)
The act that insured freedom of religion for Christian settlers.
What is the Toleration Act? (passed in 1649)
War that ended with the Treaty of Ghent.
What is the War of 1812?
President who is most associated with Manifest Destiny, the westward expansion of the US.
Who is James K. Polk?
Historian that preached for a "city upon a hill" meaning that all their errors would be exposed.
Who is John Winthrop?
Battle that took place in San Antonio, the Texans were defeated by Mexicans.
What was the Battle of the Alamo?