(colonies, Am Revolution)
This is a term to describe a colonist who supported independence from England.
What is patriot?
He was President during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is what the 13th, 14th, or 15th amendment did. (only have to say what ONE of those amendments is)
What is ending slavery? or What is extending citizenship to anyone born in the US, or What is giving all men the right to vote regardless of race?
This is a country that the US intervened in during the Cold War
What is Korea, Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, D.R., Congo, Nicaragua, Chile, Vietnam, or Afghanistan?
This term refers to the war in the United States from 1861 to 1865 between the Union and the Confederacy.
What is the Civil War?
This term means an area take over and ruled by another country, usually from overseas.
What is colony?
This was a network of secret routes and safe houses that led enslaved people to free states.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Name of the time period after the Civil War in which the federal government focused on rebuilding the South
What is Reconstruction?
This is the unfriendly but nonviolent struggle for power between the US and the Soviet Union from the end of World War II until 1991
What is the Cold War?
This term refers to the time period of heightened creativity among African American writers, artists, and musicians who gathered in New York during the 1920s
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This is a term to describe a colonist who opposed independence from England and opposed the American Revolution.
What is loyalist?
This term means the belief that Americans had the God-given right to expand west and claim all land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The US acquired the Philippines after this war. (name the war)
What is the Spanish American War?
These are 3 major countries that were part of the Allies during World War II. (must name all 3)
What are the US, Britain (England), the Soviet Union (USSR), China, and France? (must name 3 of these 5)
These are the two terms we've used when discussing why people (im)migrate. (Hint: the answer is __ and ___ factors)
What are push and pull factors?
This is 1 item that Europeans brought to the Americas in the Columbian Exchange. (there are MANY - just name one)
What is disease(!!), livestock, grains, peaches, pears, sugarcane, honeybees, bananas, grapes, citrus fruits, coffee beans, olives, onions, or turnips?
This is one difference between the North and the South in the early 1800s. (answers might sound like "The north was/had ___ and the South was/had ___")
What are the North was more industrial and the South was more agricultural? or What are the South relied heavily on slavery and there was less slavery in the North?
This term refers to a nation focusing on expanding its empire or its control over other territories/people.
What is imperialism?
These are 3 major countries that were part of the Axis alliance during World War II. (must name all 3)
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
These were the three regions of colonies. (see map)
What are New England, Middle, and Southern colonies?
Southern plantations increased their reliance on slavery due to the invention of this tool. (Name the tool)
What is the cotton gin?
This term is the process where the population shifts from rural areas to cities?
What is urbanization?
This was the US's foreign policy strategy during the Cold War in which they tried to ensure communism did not spread to more countries.
What is containment?
This is the number of presidents we've had in the United States so far.
What is 46 or 45? (Grover Cleveland was elected president two times non-consecutively and is counted twice by some)