Reconstruction and Expansion
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This New York immigration station processed millions of immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
This amendment banned the sale and manufacture of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This project developed the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This Supreme Court case ended legal school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
These laws limited the rights of African Americans in the South after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This oil tycoon controlled Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
People who illegally sold alcohol during Prohibition were called this.
What are bootleggers?
This Allied invasion opened a second front in Europe in 1944.
What is D-Day?
This wall divided East and West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This belief claimed it was America's fate to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The explosion of this ship helped push the U.S. into war with Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
This event in 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This plan provided economic aid to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This woman refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This government agency helped formerly enslaved people find jobs, schools, and assistance after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This style of sensational reporting helped increase support for war.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This environmental disaster devastated the Great Plains during the Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This event supplied West Berlin after a Soviet blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This event brought the world closest to nuclear war in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This law attempted to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands.
What is the Dawes Act?
This German message encouraged Mexico to attack the United States.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This New Deal program still provides retirement benefits today.
What is Social Security?
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
These students integrated Central High School in Arkansas.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?