Woman in APUSH
She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, sparking the bus boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This African American cultural movement celebrated Black art, literature, music, and racial pride.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This 1941 attack led the United States to enter World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This 19th century invention strengthened the plantation economy.
What is the cotton gin?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced American ideas about natural rights and limited government.
Who is John Locke?
She helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and fought for women’s suffrage.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This reform movement fought corruption, improved working conditions, and pushed for government reform.
What is the Progressive movement?
This 1941 law allowed the U.S. to supply Allied nations before formally entering World War II.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This innovation made cars cheaper to produce. It also symbolised the rise of mass production in the early 20th century.
What is the moving assembly line?
This political thinker proposed dividing government into branches in order to prevent tyranny
Montesquieu
This woman’s book The Feminine Mystique challenged the idea that middle class suburban women should find fulfilment only through domestic life.
Who is Betty Friedan?
This reform movement of the 1830s–1840s aimed to eliminate alcohol consumption, leading to Maine passing the first statewide prohibition law in 1851.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This naval strategist argued that the United States needed a strong navy to become a world power and protect its interests overseas.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
This new infrastructure/tech created during the Cold War-era encouraged suburbanisation and the growth of Sunbelt cities.
What is the interstate highway system?
This Enlightenment idea says that people are born with basic rights like life, liberty, and property.
What are natural rights?
After escaping slavery, this woman became a conductor on the Underground Railroad and later served as a Union spy and nurse during the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This reform movement, inspired by thinkers like Robert Owen, sought to create cooperative communities that rejected competitive capitalism.
What is the Utopian Socialist Movement?
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism and guided American involvement in conflicts like Korea and Vietnam during the Cold War.
What is containment?
This new infrastructure/ tech during the Cold War-era encouraged suburbanisation and the growth of Sunbelt cities.
What is the interstate highway system?
This phrase from the Declaration of Independence reflects Enlightenment ideas by saying people have the right to overthrow an unjust government.
What is “alter or abolish” government?
This Shoshone woman’s knowledge of terrain and languages proved critical to the success of the Corps of Discovery, helping secure peaceful relations with Native tribes.
Who is Sacagawea?
This 1920s movement, led by Marcus Garvey’s UNIA, promoted Black nationalism, racial pride, and economic independence.
What is Garveyism?
This 1973 law attempted to limit presidential military power after the Vietnam War.
What is the War Powers Act?
This Cold War-era Defense Department network became the foundation for the modern internet.
What is ARPANET?
This Enlightenment-influenced freedom, protected in the First Amendment, was also advanced by Jefferson’s Virginia Statute.
What is religious freedom?