Road to Revolution
Early Republic & Expansion
Civil War & Reconstruction
Gilded Age
Imperialism & World Wars
Roaring 20s & Great Depression
Civil Rights & Social Change
Cold War
100
This 1773 protest occurred when colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxes.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
100
This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
This compromise attempted to maintain balance between free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
This Supreme Court case established the “separate but equal” doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy on the U.S. naval base in Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
100
This migration moved many African Americans from the rural South to northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
100
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
100
The Cold War developed largely because of differences between these two economic systems.
What are capitalism and communism?
200
This war left Britain in debt and led to new taxes on the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
200
Based on the excerpt below, why did George Washington warn against foreign alliances in his farewell address?
Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. ... The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
To prevent the nation from becoming entangled in foreign wars against their will.
200
During Reconstruction, African Americans briefly gained increased participation in this area of society.
What is politics/government leadership?
200
A “robber baron” was this type of person.
What is a business leader who used unethical methods to gain wealth?
200
The slogan “Remember the Maine!” helped build support for this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
200
These women symbolized changing cultural values during the 1920s.
Who are flappers?
200
This Supreme Court case in 1954 declared state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown V Board of Education
200
This event in 1962 brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
Cuban Missle Crisis
300
Who were a secret underground Patriot organization formed in the Thirteen American Colonies to protest British taxation and subvert colonial rule
Sons of Liberty
300
How did the Election of 1824 impact American politics?
Due to the corrupt bargain, the Democrat-Republican Party split creating the new Jacksonian Democrats
300
One major Northern advantage during the Civil War was its stronger system of these.
What are railroads/industrial resources?
300
This phrase describes the idea that government should not interfere much in business.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
300
During World War I, women gained support for suffrage largely by doing this.
What is working in wartime industries?
300
This agricultural disaster of the 1930s was caused by drought and poor farming practices.
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged protesters to use this method to challenge unjust laws.
What is civil disobedience?
300
Truman’s policy of stopping the spread of communism was called this.
What is containment?
400
A strong central government would threaten the rights of the people guided the creation of which founding document
What is Articles of Confederation
400
This doctrine warned European nations against further colonization in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
This Supreme Court case ruled Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
400
Women gained this constitutional right during the Progressive Era.
What is the right to vote?
400
This program brought Mexican laborers to work on American farms during labor shortages.
What is the Bracero Program?
400
Buying stocks with borrowed money during the 1920s was called this.
What is buying on margin?
400
The “Double V” campaign called for victory abroad and victory over this at home.
What is racial discrimination/racism?
400
Many Americans in the 1950s built fallout shelters because they feared this.
What is nuclear war?
500
What title would you give the image below?
What is Causes of the American Revolution
500
How did the Missouri Compromise impact the distribution of political power?
Acquisition of new territory led to a power struggle between free states and slave states. To keep political balance, a compromise was developed by the federal government.
Answers may vary something about keeping political balanced between free and slave states needs to be said
500
Andrew Jackson attacked this institution because he believed it favored the wealthy elite over the common man.
What is the Second Bank of the United States?
500
What is the main message of this political cartoon?
Large corporations and trusts had too much influence over the government
500
This piece of legislation allowed the United States to provide military supplies to Allied nations while avoiding a formal declaration of war.
Lend-Lease Act
500
What key features were part of the Republican administrations during the 1920s?
Republican administrations during the 1920s focused primarily on isolationism and laissez-faire business policy
500
“We march today for jobs and freedom… For too many of our brothers are receiving starvation wages or no wages at all.
We support the civil rights bill, but we cannot be patient. The bill does not protect those who face police dogs, fire hoses, and jail for peaceful protest.
To those who say ‘Be patient and wait,’ we have long said we cannot wait. We want our freedom and we want it now. We are tired of being beaten, tired of seeing our people locked up.
By our demands and determination, we shall break the segregated South into pieces and rebuild it with justice and democracy.”
SOURCE: John Lewis, the 23 year old chairman of SNCC (The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
Summarize John Lewis’s main argument in this speech
Immediate action is necessary because African Americans continue to face injustice and violence
500
___________________ was the United States’ main goal in Vietnam
Containing the spread of Communism