Rebellions
Groups
Organizations
Battles
Agents of Change
100
This rebellion showed that the new government under the Constitution could react swiftly and effectively to a problem, in contrast to their inability under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
100
This group originated in the South and advocated white supremacy and used violence to intimidate African Americans, Jews, and other minority groups
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
This organization raised farm prices by restricting output of staple crops and restricted production by paying subsidies to growers. It was declared unconstitutional in 1936.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)?
100
This battle declared Andrew Jackson a war hero and occurred in Jan. 1815. War of 1812 had already ended when this battle was fought but the word had not yet reached the US.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
100
This agent of change gave the "I Have Dream" speech and opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
This rebellion in 1676, consisted of former indentured servants that were angered by the lack of response from government in their protection against to Indian attacks.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
200
This group was formed to protect rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.
What is Sons of Liberty?
200
This organization was a 1966 feminist group that pursued equal rights for women in the work place, state support for child care, and legalization of abortion.
What is the National Organization of Women?
200
This battle was the last major battle in the Revolutionary War; Charles Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington after American and French forces descended from different directions in a joint operational tactic
What is Yorktown?
200
This agent of change invented the cotton gin that increased productivity in factories immensely.
Who is Eli Whitney?
300
This rebellion was to prevent courts from foreclosing on the farms of those who couldn’t pay taxes. This conflict led to criticism of the Articles of Confederation and how a weak central government was inefficient.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
This group of writers in the 1920s shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral value
What is the Lost Generation?
300
This labor organization organized workers in industrial unions and paired with the American Federation of Labor.
What is the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO)?
300
This battle is considered to be the most important battle of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation followed this battle.
What is Antietam?
300
This agent of change wrote "Uncle Tom’s Cabin” a book about a slave who is treated badly. The book persuaded more people to become anti-slavery with its graphic imagery
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
This rebellion was the most serious slave rebellion in colonial period, which occurred in 1739 in SC.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
400
This group turned to the romantics in Europe for inspiration, believed in the importance of nature and degraded materialism, and were greatly influenced by American Literature.
What is transcendentalists?
400
This organization is an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
400
This was the first battle of the Civil War in 1861 in South Carolina that ended in a Confederate victory.
What is Fort Sumter?
400
This agent of change was a social reformer who campaigned for women’s rights, the temperance, and abolition, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
500
This rebellion consisted of Scots-Irish farmers that were upset with the disputes over the western lands and sought for protection from Indian attacks.
What are the Paxton Boys?
500
A group of reporters that spent their time digging up dirt on a wide range of things in society; intention was to make the public aware of problems that needed fixing.
What is a Muckraker?
500
This organization was created by Congress in 1933 to give work to young unemployed men to improve the environment and benefit the public with projects such as reforestation, building levees for flood control, and improving national parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
500
This battle was the first major battle of the Revolutionary War in 1775 that showed that American had a chance to win but it was going to take effort to do so.
What is Bunker Hill?
500
This agent of change wrote “The Jungle” which revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. Influenced consumers to demand safer canned products.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
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