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Debt from this war caused the British to tightly control the colonies, making the colonist angry and led to the American Revolution
French and Indian war
How many members are there in the United States Senate?
100
The first state in the South to secede from the Union in 1860
South Carolina
A strategy used by Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement?
Civil disobedience
America's first government document immediately following the American Revolution?
The Articles of Confederation
Which of the following was NOT an example of early colonial government: Virginia House of Burgesses, The Constitution, Mayflower Compact
The Constitution
Another term for the Democrat Party
Liberals
The president of the Union during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Rode integrated buses through the south challenging segregation policies
Freedom Riders
When the Articles of Confederation failed as America's first governing document, what was it replaced by
The Constitution
A representative legislature that governed Virginia
House of Burgesses
This agency was created to administer and enforce campaign finance law? (enforcing the rules for what campaigns can and cannot do with money)
Federal Elections Commission
Most immigrants from Europe went here first upon arrival to the United States
Ellis Island
The pilgrimage to what Holy City changed Malcolm X's militant views on achieving civil rights.
Mecca
I was elected the first and only president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
I wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
This is necessary of US Citizens so that we can have our constitutional right to trial by peers
Serving on a Jury
No restrictions or involvement on business from the government is called
Laissez-faire
Banned segregation in any public space or business throughout the United States
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
I wrote the novel "The Jungle" in 1906 uncovering the truth of the US meat packing industry.
Upton Sinclair
A government where people elect candidates to represent them in government
Republic
At the age of 18, what are all American men required to sign up for by law?
The military draft
I was the creator of NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and also created the Niagara Movement for Black American intellectualism
W.E.B. DuBois
The term for the United States foreign policy for stopping the spread of communism
Containment
The name of the turning point of the Vietnam War in which the Vietcong carried out a series of damaging attacks against the US and South Vietnam
The Tet Offensive